{"id":4299,"date":"2013-12-13T19:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:41:59","slug":"voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4299","title":{"rendered":"Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005G48X9A\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B005G48X9A&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Voices<\/a><\/em> (2003\/2006) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Indridason_Arnaldur.php\">Arnaldur Indridason<\/a> translated by Bernard Scudder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005G48X9A\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005G48X9A&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Voices.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8725\" \/><\/a>There has been a murder in one of the fancy hotels. A particularly nasty murder, with a man in a Santa suit, in a compromising position, stabbed to death. Inspector Erlendur and the rest of the police have been called in, but nothing is at it seems, from the man himself&#8211;a doorman who lived in a small room in the basement&#8211;to any possible suspects.<\/p>\n<p>First, Erlendur seems more and more curmudgeonly with each book, but that doesn&#8217;t make the story any less enjoyable or him less likable. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He didn&#8217;t listen to modern music. For a long time after hearing people at work talking about hip-hop he thought it was a variation of hopscotch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is just marvelous.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I like that there are other cases going on, despite the rush to discover who murdered the doorman. <\/p>\n<p>Third, Erlendur becomes more and more sympathetic as we learn more about his past&#8211;the event that all but destroyed his childhood. I can&#8217;t imagine such an event and a loss at that age. And although we&#8217;d learned about the event in a previous book, this time we learn more of the reactions of the rest of his family, and more of how it changed and shaped Erlendur.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I learned what Gullfoss and Geysir are (a waterfall and a geyser in Iceland) so that&#8217;s just a BONUS.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing&#8211;pay attention to how the murder victim is referred to as the story progresses. It&#8217;s fascinating how he changes from Santa to the doorman to a man with a past and a history.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Minotaur Books<br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/12352982\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices (2003\/2006) Arnaldur Indridason translated by Bernard Scudder There has been a murder in one of the fancy hotels. A particularly nasty murder, with a man in a Santa suit, in a compromising position, stabbed to death. Inspector Erlendur and the rest of the police have been called in, but nothing is at it seems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,42,38],"tags":[116,438,52,117],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-police","category-translated","tag-arnaldur-indridason","tag-bernard-scudder","tag-iceland","tag-inspector-erlendur"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siQkW-voices","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8724,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8724","url_meta":{"origin":4299,"position":0},"title":"Voices","author":"Michelle","date":"February 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Voices (2003\/2006) Arnaldur Indridason translated by Bernard Scudder A hotel worker is found dead in the tiny closet in which he lived in the hotel. 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