Wall of Silence (2020)

★★★★★ Five stars, full house “Arnaldur’s stories are well-thought-out and it is incredible how he connects old cases to current issues in every book. Konrad fits perfectly into this setting as he is fixated on unsolved cases from the past. The storytelling is smooth, and systematically alternates between current time and the years around 1960. … Konrad’s conscience has been nagging him for decades and that is a main theme in the story … Wall of Silence is like a plant with many branches and a strong trunk. Konrad moves around in his search for truth and even though he is mostly met with closed doors, a glimpse is enough for him to put the puzzle pieces together. … Dusk doesn’t get any lighter.”

“As always, the novel is masterfully executed, with twists and surprises.”

❤❤❤❤❤ “Arnaldur Indridason writes fascinating, panoramic, and compelling stories - crime or not. With a determined albatross wingspan, far more sweeping than the quite Danish gusts ... In this volume in the Konrad series, we return to an Icelandic past, before the island became a beloved tourist destination for the whole world. A piece of nature and culture with just over 300,000 inhabitants, placed somewhere between a glorious saga age and a late modern present in the slow lane ... Thus, Wall of Silence, with tones of Norse tragedy and fateful interplay, is a bittersweet novel about former times in Reykjavik, with wounds from first Danish, then American occupation. At the same time, it is an exciting and different crime novel with Konrad as an amoral antihero.”