A shiver

Translation: Center for Arabization and Programming Number of pages: 397 pages Publisher: Arab Scientific Publishers On a freezing day in January, Reykjavik police are called to a residential complex where a body was found in the garden... a young boy, dark-skinned, frozen on the ground in a pool of blood... Erlandur and his team begin their investigation... and quickly uncover tensions boiling beneath the surface of Iceland's multicultural society, outwardly liberal. Meanwhile, the boy's murder forces Erlandur to confront a tragedy from his past. The novel "Shiver" by Arnaldur Indriðason, a skilled detective story writer, offers a vivid description of savage cultural wars, little known in Iceland, in a police style characterized by tension and fast-paced action.