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    <body><![CDATA[This Icelandic writer has produced a series of books about a detective who solves puzzling and often bizarre crimes in his native country. The settings are wonderfully portrayed and the psychological profiles of the various inhabitants of this obscure country are very engaging, very realistic, if a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10023911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75108373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fourth book by Arnaldur Indridason featuring Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson takes us once again to Iceland -- almost an alternate universe, but one I'll gladly visit. I'm still waiting for the movie version of Jar City to be released on DVD.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A skeleton tied to some old Soviet radio equipment appears when the level of a local Icelandic lake suddenly drops. Reykjavik's Inspector Erlendur digs into Iceland's Cold War past to find out who the person was.<br/><br/>This book is not suspenseful. Its charm lies in looking through the window o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77534280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author never disappoints.  There is something about the nordic countries - Sweden, Norway, Iceland - that always seems to lay a mood profound pessimism and depression onto its literary characters - at least in mysteries.  Must be something to do with the lack of light in the winter and the over...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49346050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hier zu besprechen ist der sechste Band (der fünfte auf Deutsch erschienene) aus der Reihe rund um Kommissar Erlendur von der Reykjaviker Polizei. Durch das langsame Absinken des Wasserspiegels eines Sees wird ein Skelett freigelegt, das vor rund dreißig Jahren in diesem See versenkt wurde. Sehr s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39578366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The is a gripping and haunting story taking place in present day Iceland and partly in East Germany during the Cold War era.<br/><br/>The tale begins when waters of Lake Kleifarvatn mysteriously recede revealing a 30 year old skeleton weighted down by Russian listening equipment. Police inspector ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45338102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The description is wrong - this book (as the title suggests) - starts with a skeleton emerging from a draining lake.  It's about the idealism of students in the 50s hoping for a socialist revolution but becoming aware of the totalitarian reality of the E German state.  This back story is contrasted ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78824914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Police procedural set in Iceland, somewhere around the year 2000, it would seem.  The main detective, Erlendur, is yet another middle-aged grump, with characteristics reminding me of the original detective of this sort, Martin Beck.<br/><br/>I was somewhat puzzled that I had so much trouble keepin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46419692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic Icelandic mystery by Indriðason. The plot of this story wasn't as dark as some of his previous ones, but it was intriguing. A skeleton is found at the bottom of a draining lake. Later determined to be a man, the skeleton leads them on a chase stretching involving everything from an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35193570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the best of the Indridason mysteries, all of which are a cut way above average. The point of view moves back and forth between the Reykjavik homicide detectives' and the murderer's, and the scene shifts between present-day Iceland to Leipzig in the 'Fifties.  The theme of love in its...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40193099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting plot that weaves a bit of cold war history into the author's standard plot format; namely, a contemporary murder mystery that has its roots 30 or more years in the past. The story is not actually much of a mystery but it is entertaing, a fast read and I liked the references to 'interacti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8546865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite devices in mystery fiction is the long-buried crime that suddenly comes to light - I'm fascinated by the long-term effects of crime and loss that can then be explored.  In <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Draining Lake" title="The Draining Lake">The Draining Lake</a>. a skeleton with a hole in its skull is uncovered as the lake recedes, and before the murde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31398549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Inspector Erlendur series is more enjoyable with each installment as Erlendur becomes slightly less opaque, yet his relationships with coworkers and his children no less complicated.  This most recent novel overlaps a tale of  Icelanic and European students attending a Communist State-run colleg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43792885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Icelandic crime-writer Arnaldur Indridason's fourth piece of fiction translated into English. His recurring cop is the dour Erlendur, here called in to investigate a skeleton discovered in a lake that has started to drain itself through a fissure caused by an earthquake. As with his other st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30016433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More life experiences in Iceland, where nothing ever happens.  Ha.<br/>A skeleton is discovered buried in a sandy lake bed that became exposed when the water drained from Lake Kleifarvatn after a seismic disruption.  The plot moves to Leipzig, East Germany, before the Berlin Wall is taken down and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62923504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book, not so much for its suspense, but for the mix of historical facts and the lovely imperfections of its numerous characters.<br/>Made me want to know more about Island.<br/><br/>I find thrillers are often a good way to learn more about a country, they are full of interesting characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74180148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Arnaldur Indridason's Icelandic mysteries keep getting better and better - <em>The Draining Lake</em> involves a decades-old skeleton found at the depths of an Icelandic lake. The mystery of the skeleton's identity and who killed him are tied up in events in Eastern Europe from the 1950s, and the novel alter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43412705">more...</a>]]></body>
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