Translation of an Icelandic novel which follows the life of narrator Paul Olafsson, a young man who tells of his retreat into schizophrenia, his years of hospitalization where he undergoes intense drug therapy, and his eventual release.
Reykjav?k police inspector Erlendur, with the help of Elinborg and Sigurdur, investigates when a skeleton is found in a lake which has been drained due to an earthquake and uncovers the victim was murdered and may have been involved in Cold War espionage.
