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'''Now published as ''Jar City'' '''
Holberg was found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. His head had been smashed by an ashtray and he'd then hit the corner of the coffee table as he fell. Scrawled on a piece of paper left on the body was the cryptic message ''I am him''. The man had been a loner and his flat gave away few clues – apart from the photograph of a young girl's grave. Unravelling the mystery was not going to be easy, and detective Erlendur has to use all the forensic resources at his disposal to find any leads at all. Back in the nineteen sixties Holberg was accused of raping a young woman. Could it be that something or someone in his past has come back to seek revenge?