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He won the cwa gold dagger award for silence of the grave and is the only author to win the glass key award for best nordic crime novel two years in a row, for jar city and silence of the grave. He graduated with a degree in history from the university of iceland haskoli islands in 1996. Appreciate that indridason has included some white collar crime, specifically big bank crime, in this installment. Erlendur sveinsson is a detective in reykjavik, iceland and works alongside elinborg and sigurdur oli. An inspector erlendur novel an inspector erlendur series authors.
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