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The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavi?k's underworld. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband, and an unexplained death. When a homeless man he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city. Read more...