The Girl by the Bridge
A Detective Konrad Novel
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4.1 • 42 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
18 million copies sold worldwide!
An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him.
Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city pond unexpectedly captures everyone's attention.
A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Past and present are deeply intertwined in Indridason's knotty yet rewarding second outing for retired Reykjavik detective Konrád (after The Darkness Knows). The plot is deliberately tangled: at the start, Konrád is investigating the disappearance of a young woman on behalf of her prominent grandparents, who are eager to avoid publicity about their granddaughter's involvement with drugs. Eventually, he finds the woman dead, seemingly of an overdose, though Konrád has his doubts. Meanwhile, a medium named Eygló—the daughter of a friend of Konrád's long-deceased father—has a vision of a girl who died in a Reykjavik pond in 1961, and enlists Konrád's help to find out more. Konrád is skeptical of Eygló's abilities, until his own ongoing investigation into his father's unsolved murder turns up clear evidence of the woman's clairvoyance. Before long, Konrád becomes determined to find the hidden connections between the trio of criss-crossing, decades-spanning killings—of his father, the girl in the pond, and the woman who "overdosed." Indridason spins his multilayered narrative into an unnerving story of old crimes and their enduring reverberations, bringing it all to a powerful and well-earned denouement. This a treat for fans of brainy, complex mysteries.
Customer Reviews
Middling Icelandic Noir
Overly convoluted and in the end, unbelievable.
The Girl by the Bridge
Outstanding book I enjoyed reading very much. Some editing is needed to make better transitions - it seems like several pages may be missing in a few places and the reader has to fast forward without a roadmap and make assumptions about the missing content. Also, there was no closure of the murder investigation of Konrad’s father. I’ve read all of this author’s books, though, and have enjoyed the mysteries and Icelandic history.