The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, following The Shadow District.
"Indridason is an international literary phenom." -Harlan Coben
"Puts Iceland on the map as a major destination for enthusiasts of Nordic crime fiction." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation."-The London Sunday Times
"No wonder Arnaldur Indridason won so many awards. He's a great storyteller, and American readers will overwhelmingly agree." -C.J. Box
A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjav�k, shot in the head with a pistol. The police's attention is immediately drawn to the foreign soldiers who are on every street corner in the summer of 1941. So begins officers Fl�vent and Thorson's investigation, which will lead them down a path darker than either of them expected, and force them to reckon with their own demons.