Arnaldur Indridason - Vérvonal - paperback

An elderly man becomes the victim of a murder in his apartment in Reykjavík. Inspector Erlendur finds a strange message on the corpse, and a blurry photo from the bottom of a drawer arouses his suspicions. You don't have to do much research into the dead man's past to find out: forty years ago someone reported him for rape. But does this old, unproven case have anything to do with his skull being cracked? After all, the murderer could also have been a sneaking thief whom the old man caught in the act. Erlendur has to tear open old, painful wounds for answers, while his personal life has enough to deal with...