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Tainted Blood 
Author(s) Arnaldur Indriðason Original title Mýrin Translator Bernard Scudder Country Iceland Language Icelandic Series Detective Erlendur, #3 Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel Publisher Harvill Press (Eng. trans.) Publication date 2000 (orig.) (Eng. trans. 2004) Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 224 pp (Eng. trans.) ISBN ISBN 0-09-946163-3 (Eng. trans.) OCLC Number 57527467 Preceded by Silent Kill Followed by Silence of the Grave Tainted Blood (Icelandic: Mýrin) (
listen (help·info)) is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, originally published in Iceland in 2000. The novel was first published in English as Jar City, but the title was changed for following editions (although the initial title is still used in the United States).In the original Icelandic, the novel won the Scandinavian crime writers' Glass Key award. Arnaldur Indriðason's following novel, Silence of the Grave, won the award in the following year also, making him the first author ever to have won the award two years running.[1]
Awards and nominations
- 2002 Glass key award (for Nordic crime fiction novel)
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
A film based on the novel, called Jar City and directed by Baltasar Kormákur, premiered in Iceland on October 20, 2006.
Jar City was released in the UK on September 12th 2008.
The Glass Key award Faceless Killers (1992) · Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1993) · Sub Rosa (1994) · Masken i spejlet (1995) · Nattsug (1996) · Don't Look Back (1997) · The Bat Man (1998) · Limes billede (1999) · Carambole (2000) · Missing (2001) · Tainted Blood (2002) · Silence of the Grave (2003) · Hjemsøkt (2004) · Odjuret (2005) · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2006) · Ystävät kaukana (2007) · The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2008) · Nattfåk (2009) · Flaskepost fra P (2010) · Den Döende Detektiven (2011)
Categories:- 2000 novels
- Novels adapted into films
- Novels by Arnaldur Indriðason
- Crime novel stubs
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