It felt like I needed a break from the violence but I sure didn’t get it with this book. I guess I knew I wouldn’t this being a Scandi-noir but it doesn’t require a lot of analytic thinking so …

The Silence of the Grave
by Arnaldur Indriðason.
2005 into English by Bernard Scudder
Read by George Guidall 8h 20m
Rating: A-
#2 in Reykjavik Murder Mysteries,
Detective Erlendur Sveinsson, the protagonist for the eponymous series, is called to a construction site in Reykjavik where human bones have been just been discovered at a birthday party held in a home nearby. The bones are 70 years old but the effects are present day. Meanwhile, Erlender’s daughter is having a lot of problems.