the girl by the bridge: a detective konrad novel

18 million copies sold worldwide!

An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she’s been smuggling drugs, and now she’s gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him.

Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city pond unexpectedly captures everyone’s attention.

A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.

ARNALDUR INDRIDASON worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. His books have since sold over eighteen million copies world-wide. He won the CWA Gold Dagger for Silence of the Grave and is the only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, for Jar City and Silence of the Grave. The Shadow District--the first of the Flovent and Thorson Thrillers--won the Premio RBA de Novela Negra, the world’s most lucrative crime fiction prize.