WhoDunnits: “Jar City” by Arnaldur Indridason (JCCL)

This month’s book is Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason. Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson heads up the investigation into the killing of a solitary man, found murdered in his Reykjavik apartment, only to discover that the victim has only two friends, one in prison and one missing for twenty-five years, and that the dead man had been accused but not convicted of a rape forty years earlier.

This moody, atmospheric police procedural set in Iceland won the 2002 Nordic Crime Novel Award.

WhoDunnits is a discussion group devoted to mysteries of all kinds and meets the first Tuesday of every month.