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Title	:	The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)
Author	:	Arnaldur Indriðason
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2007 by Harvill Secker (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Thriller. Scandinavian Lite.... Nordic Noir

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Another murder mystery from the northlands – Iceland this time. A skeleton is revealed when a lake is naturally drained due to an earthquake. The skeleton had been weighted down by Russian radio equipment. Who can it be? Our three Icelandic detectives start investigating people who disappeared around the time of the Cold War. It turns out that several Communist-leaning Icelandic students went to study in East Germany at that time, one of whom disappeared. So quite a bit of the story takes us back to what it was like to be as student at Leipzig in the 1950’s.



Another possible victim is a salesman who went missing – his ex-fiancé is still around and still kind of hoping he might still show up fifty years later.

We also follow snippets of the personal lives of the team of three detectives, two men and a woman. One is haunted by a brother lost in the snow as a boy and deals with a drug-addicted daughter.

The book, translated from the Icelandic is part of a series, of which I also read and liked, The Silence of the Grave. If you’ve read this far I’ll tell you that I actually rate this story as a 4 – it’s a pretty good detective read. But I’m giving it a 3 for the lack of inventiveness of the premise, which is identical to Silence of the Grave --- a skeleton is found from 50 year ago and the three detectives go back to find everyone missing at that time and come up with four missing people, etc. --- I mean, come on! That’s really pushing your formula too far.

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Original Title:	Kleifarvatn
ISBN:	1846550955 (ISBN13: 9781846550959)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Inspector Erlendur #6, Inspector Erlendur [English Translation Order] #4
Characters:	Sigurður Óli, Erlendur Sveinsson, Elínborg
Setting:	Reykjavik (Reykjavík)(Iceland) Iceland Leipzig(Germany)
Literary Awards:	Barry Award for Best Novel (2009), Macavity Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel (2009), Prix du Polar Européen (2008)

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I had read somewhere that Iceland has the highest ratio of number of books read per person than any other country in the world and also that every 1 of 10 Icelanders go on to become a writer or a poet. I seriously don't know whether that is true or not but it seriously itched me to read something from Iceland. I wondered despite of the low population in Iceland if there are so many writers and so many books read why haven't we seen any great write or great books emerging from the country. The

The Pleasures of Stodginessthis article, about Arnaldur Indriðason's Inspector Erlendur series of novels, first appeared in Business Line's Saturday supplement, BLinkIt begins with the discovery of a corpse. A brooding detective, usually male, and with a shattered private life, gets on the case. He has a team of two or three, and they do the basic work of identifying the corpse. The forensic report is likely to be delayed. The investigation proceeds so slowly that it sometimes appears to be not

Three and a half stars, rounded up.The water level in lake Kleifarvatn drops suddenly. On the bottom, tied to Russian spy equipment, a body of an unkonwn man is found. The skeleton is old, and everything points at it is the result of a crime committed during the cold war.Erlendur and his collegues try to solve the mystery. In paralell, were told a completely different story about a young Icelandic student in East Germany during the 50s. The events from two different eras are merged into a story

The story behind Erlendur's Draining Lake investigation begins not with the discovery of bones in a lake bed, but in the 1950s in Leipzig. At that time it was part of the GDR, and students were being recruited to come to the university there to study. Some Icelandic socialist students were part of the recruitment effort -- but many discovered that there was a catch to their free education once they had been there for a while. Flashforward to the present, where a hydrologist examining a lake bed

Arnaldur Indridason is my new favorite mystery author. I'm reading about one book in the series each week and anticipating the next book in the series. I read other books, too, but I can't wait to get back to Indridason. The Draining Lake reminds me of Silence of the Grave in a number of ways -- all positive. This book features the discovery of a long-buried skeleton and the mystery reaches into Iceland's past. This time, the present connects to the Cold War, retelling the story of some

Another good book, but not my favorite in the Erlandur series. A little too much socialism/politics, but it was good, just not great, like all his other books I've read so far. Onward, with the next in the series!

I don't why I picked this book. Sometimes I walk past the library shelves in Fiction and just pick one up. If I like the cover (I know - so scientific), I'll read it.So, begins why I had this book. It's written by an Icelandic writer, Arnaldur Indridason and it was translated into English. On my last horrid plane ride with one stop (3 hours that took 10 hours), I met a man from Iceland one a stopover in Phoenix - he and a friend were on their way to a dinner in Taos - he was Wiccan - He wore a