A small girl dies of a genetically inherited brain condition and an ageing pervert is killed in a squalid basement flat in Reykjavik, the latter a case to which dogged detective Erlendu is assigned. His investigation, at times, takes him back to crimes thirty years in the past and into a sordid Icelandic underbelly of deprived urban estates, impoverished rural communities, marital infidelity and drug addiction. An atmospheric, genuinely different, murder investigation/puzzle with some truly left find out more...

A former 60s radical and civil rights lawyer, who now makes a living defending mid-level drug-dealers, is inspired by a young "suit", who admires his once great speeches, to re-open the case of a Korean convict, a procedure that involves taking on the entire legal system and is an ideal outlet for his liberal leanings. find out more...