Shadow District

A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow.

On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National Theatre.

Konrád, a former detective, is bored with retirement and remembers the crime. He grew up in ‘the shadow district’, a rough neighbourhood bordered by the National Theatre and an abattoir. Why would someone be interested in that crime now? He starts his own unofficial enquiry.

Alternating between Konrád’s investigation and the original police inquiry, we discover that two girls had been attacked in oddly similar circumstances. Did the police arrest the wrong man? How are these cases linked across the decades? And who is the old man?

A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Man from Manitoba is the first in a thrilling new series of novels by the worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason.

Un barbat in varsta de 90 de ani este gasit mort in patul lui, inabusit cu propria perna. Pe biroul sau, politia gaseste taieturi de ziare despre un caz de crima datand din cel de-al doilea razboi mondial, cand o tanara a fost gasita sugrumata in spatele Teatrului National din Reykjavík. .Konrád, un fost detectiv, se plictiseste de pensionare si isi aminteste crima.