His own idea of a splurge is to purchase a bottle of Chartreuse and sit alone reading about how Icelanders got lost and died trying to visit their loved ones in the festive season. The Swedish translation of the novel ( nglarsten) won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for the best crime novel in translation. It was first published in English in August 2006. He doesn't make things brighter by refusing invitations to Christmas celebrations. Voices ( Icelandic: Rddin) is a 2006 translation of a 2003 crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriason, in his Detective Erlendur series. Arnaldur Indridason took the international crime fiction scene by storm aft. Inspector Erlendur, who became known to a wider readership when Indridason won the Gold Dagger for crime fiction last year with Silence of the Grave, is on another tough case. Read 925 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The deceased was wearing a condom, not part of the traditional gear, and on the bedside table in Santa's grotto is a history of the Vienna Boys' Choir. The manager is desperate to keep any whiff of scandal away from guests arriving to spend a cheery holiday amid reindeer and Icelandic hot springs. In Voices, Santa is found murdered in the basement of a posh hotel, an event that causes consternation, since this scarlet-clad symbol of universal jollity happened to have his trousers down.
It's Christmas in one of Arnaldur Indridason's Reykjavik-set murder mysteries: deck the skulls with boughs of holly.
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