![]() And Erlendur’s relationship with Eva takes a significant step forward when she helps crack the case of the runaway bride. Erlendur’s colleagues Sigurdur and Elínberg are annoyed at the drudgery involved in this effort, but eventually the team finds other victims of Holberg who hold the key to the killing. The sexist cop who caught the original rape case insulted the victim and allowed Holberg to walk. The news that Holberg was arrested for rape 30 years ago sends Erlendur on a difficult search among old records and hostile, forgetful witnesses. ![]() The divorced Erlendur must also struggle to get his combative, punked-out daughter Eva Lind away from her drug-drenched nightlife. When veteran Reykjavik police inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called to a squalid basement flat to examine the corpse of an elderly man named Holberg, bludgeoned to death with a large ashtray, he finds on the scene a typed note with the cryptic message, “I am HIM.” Murder in Iceland is rare, and Erlendur is just coordinating his probe when two other crimes demand his attention: the assault of geriatric twin sisters in their home and the disappearance of a bride shortly after her wedding. An Icelandic detective investigates a murder with roots in the distant past. ![]()
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