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It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his phone? Then new evidence is discovered, and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true. Because this fire wasn't an accident. It was murder. And the killer is still out there...

El nivel del lago Kleifarvatn ha ido bajando lentamente después de un terremoto. Al parecer, unas fisuras en el fondo están propiciando el drenaje de las aguas. Un hidrólogo local está estudiando el curioso fenómeno cuando descubre un esqueleto con un agujero en el cráneo y un viejo aparato de radio, con inscripciones en ruso, usado a modo de lastre para que el cadáver no subiera a la superficie. Todo apunta a un asesinato cometido hace bastantes años. El inspector Erlendur es un hombre curtido por el dolor, implacable cuando se trata de descubrir la verdad, incluso cuando está...

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Los cinco relatos incluidos en este libro son el recuerdo nostálgico de otro tiempo pasado, más ameno que éste presente, ya que como dice Mario, uno de los personajes creados por el autor: "esta vida es una mierda", a lo que su amigo Fran le contesta: "la culpa es de las neuronas espejo pues son las que copian todo lo que ven".