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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
(b.1979) is a writer and editor of journal Skirnir. His first book of poetry, Downfall and Episodes of the Mysterious Mangi, was published in 2004, followed by a book on the late novels of Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness (2009) More about the author