Order of Arnaldur Indridason Books
Arnaldur Indridason is an Icelandic novelist of crime fiction. He is best known for his Inspector Erlendur series. He is the son of author Indridi G. Thorsteinsson. Arnaldur received his degree in history from the University of Iceland, then worked as a journalist, freelance writer and film critic. At one point, his novels were seven of the top ten books at the Reykjavik City Library. His novels have been published in 26 countries and into many different languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Danish, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Chinese, Croatian, Romanian and Bulgarian.
Arnaldur Indridason became a published author with the novel Sons of Dust, which was published in 1997 in Icelandic and has yet to see an English translation. His first book to be published in English was Jar City (aka Tainted Blood). He is the winner of the Glass Key Award in 2002 and 2003 and has also won the 2005 CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave. Below is a list of Arnaldur Indridason’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Inspector Erlendur Books
| Jar City / Tainted Blood | (2000) |    |
| Silence of the Grave | (2001) | |
| Voices | (2002) | |
| The Draining Lake | (2004) | |
| Arctic Chill | (2005) | |
| Hypothermia | (2007) | |
| Outrage | (2008) | |
| Black Skies | (2009) | |
| Strange Shores | (2010) | |
| Reykjavík Nights | (2012) | |
| Into Oblivion | (2014) | |
Publication Order of Konráð Books
| The Darkness Knows | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Reykjavik Wartime Mystery/Flovent and Thorson Thrillers Books
| The Shadow District | (2013) | |
| The Shadow Killer | (2018) | |
Chronological Order of Reykjavik Wartime Mystery/Flovent and Thorson Thrillers Books
| The Shadow Killer | (2018) | |
| The Shadow District | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Operation Napoleon | (1999) | |
Note: Jar City was also published under the title Tainted Blood.
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Arnaldur Indridason Synopsis: Operation Napoleon is a standalone thriller novel by Arnaldur Indridason and translated by Victoria Cribb. The novel starts out during World War II, when a German bomber crashes in Iceland during a blizzard. Interestingly, both German and U.S. officers are onboard. A German senior officer says that it would be best to walk to a nearby farm, and then disappears into the blizzard. In present day Iceland, the U.S. Army is attempting to remove the wreck of an airplane from a glacier in a clandestine operation. A young man named Elias stumbles upon the operation and then disappears. But before he disappears, he contacts his sister, Kristin, who now goes on an adventure in order to find out what happened to her brother. The novel is recommended to readers of Clive Cussler and Alistair MacLean.
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The two Flovent/Thorson books are very good. It is however odd that though the two worked together in the first book Shadow District, they are meeting each other again for the first time in Shadow Killer, which came after….
I just completed The Shadow District. It’s the first book of a new series.