A film crew of 150. A blizzard with no end. And a star who won’t leave her trailer alive.
When a Hollywood production descends on a tiny village in North Iceland, glamour quickly curdles into menace. Young detective Lola, newly posted to Akureyri CID, is sent to the windswept outpost of Kópasker to investigate minor theft on set. Instead, she finds herself trapped by a violent snowstorm with 150 cast and crew members and a world-famous actress dead in a locked trailer. Evelyn Gray, a star with a toxic reputation and a history of exploitation, is discovered strangled just as power and communications fail. With roads impassable and tensions rising, Lola must unravel rivalries, drug use, abuse, and buried grudges before panic turns lethal. When the crime scene goes up in flames and another body is found, suspicion fractures the stranded group. A razor-sharp closed-circle mystery set against Arctic isolation, The Murder of Evelyn Gray introduces a bold new heroine in Indridason’s most cinematic and contemporary noir series yet.
“This is a fantastic book. Arnaldur at his absolute best. A small town in furious weather, the power goes out, no internet, unhappy and frightened people trapped together, and a murderer somewhere in the group. It doesn’t get any better than that—except, yes, when you add ironic humor, tremendously entertaining characters, and sharp commentary on the hype, vanity, and distortion surrounding the film industry… The Murder of Evelyn Gray is such a brilliantly constructed story that if it were a steak, it’s safe to say it would be exceptionally juicy.”
SS, LIFDU NUNA MAGAZINE
★★★★★
“Vivid as a film, exciting and fast-paced, full of deception and theatricality… The prose is exceptionally well written and the character development superb… In the second half, it feels as though you’ve stepped right into a thrilling James Bond movie.”
SG, MORGUNBLADID DAILY
“the crown [of Scandinavian crime writers] rests securely on King Arnaldur’s head.”
BARRY FORSHAW, THE FINANCIAL TIMES
“Arnaldur Indridason [is] the godfather of Icelandic crime”
MARK SANDERSON, THE TIMES
“There is no Icelandic crime writer who does better than Indridason.”
KILJAN NATIONAL TV
