Detective Erlendur encounters memories of his troubled past in this award-winning continuation of the Reykjav¡k Murder Mysteries.
In a grand Reykjav¡k hotel, the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps.A somewhat glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and the intrusion of a murder investigation are not what he had in mind.
Malice, greed, and shades of corruption reveal themselves as Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel.But most shocking is the childhood secret of the dead man: a brush with stardom which ultimately cost him everything.
