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House of Evidence (1998)
It is early in the year 1973 and a man has been found dead in a distinguished old house in Reykjavik.
The cause of death is a fatal shot wound to the chest. The police investigation reveals that the man’s father was shot to death in the same living room in 1945, a crime which was never solved.
• Nominated for The Glass Key, The Nordic Crime Novel Award 2001
(1918-1994) was born in Haelavik on Iceland’s northernmost peninsula, Hornstrandir, but spent most of her life as a housewife on a farm in Myvatnssveit named Gardur. She was one of Iceland’s leading authors, producing novels, short stories, and books of More about the author