She is taken to the hospital, in a coma, and the baby is delivered stillborn. Finally, on a slim chance, he goes to a maternity home and finds Eva Lind there, passed out and bleeding on the grounds.
He discovers abused and neglected children along the way and calls social services for them.
Now he must try to find her.Įrlendur tracks Eva Lind through some truly awful drug squats with residents that seem barely human. She had had a huge fight with her father and left his apartment weeks before and he's had no contact with her since. Eva Lind, whom we met in the first novel, is now about seven months pregnant and still a drug addict. While Erlendur is waiting around at the scene, he receives a cryptic and frantic phone call from his estranged daughter, Eva Lind, asking him to help her, but she hangs up before he can find out where she is. It is an excruciatingly slow process, accomplished with small hand tools. They contact an archaeologist who assembles a team and begins to dig to free the bones. Inspector Erlendur and his team show up and discover what appears to be a very old burial. He takes them to the place where he picked up the interesting "rock" that he gave his sister to play with, and, there, they find more bones. He alerts the child's mother who asks the baby's brother what he knows about it. As he sits waiting for the child to be ready to leave, he watches the honoree's younger sister who is gnawing on something that at first appears to be a toy, but, when he gets a closer look, he realizes it is actually a section of a human rib. A young medical student had dropped by a children's birthday party to pick up his young brother who was attending. The story begins with the image of a baby gnawing on a human bone. But was it truly a crime or simply a situation where justice was at last served? In this second book in the series, we again get a very cold case - something that occurred during World War II. The solution to the mystery turned on the idea of Iceland as a very insular society with a shallow genetic pool where most people are at least distantly related. Jar City, the first mystery by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason that features Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson of the Reykyavik police, traced the origins of a modern-day murder to a heinous crime that occurred some forty years before.
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason
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