The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force and the beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accident, theft, domestic violence, contraband… An unexplained death won’t leave him be. A bum he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch and no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him further into the strange and dark underworld of the city.

Reykjavik Nights is Arnaldur Indridason’s sixteenth novel and follows the first case of the policeman Erlendur, who readers know from the author’s earlier books. Indridason’s books have been immensely popular both in Iceland and abroad and have received excellent reviews.