I think this is the 1st book in the series and it is another cracker.
Man found murdered in anonymous flat, turns out he raped a woman many years ago, passed on a rare genetic disease to her daughter and another victim, so through buried family histories; the killer is his other son who works in the Icelandic genetic database and has lost his own daughter to the same disease.
Erlendur is still trying to come to terms with his daughter Eva Lind, who is trying to come to terms with her own fucked up life, for which she blames him.
These are a great set of books; Erlendur as I have probably said before is a far more interesting character than Wallander, and Iceland being such a compressed society, made far more interesting than Sweden.
I think I must have nearly exhausted the published oeuvre and keep thinking I must read a serious classic - 'War and Peace' is still sitting unread on the Kindle. But maybe I can find one more of these.
Jar City by the way is where the Icelandic geneticists used to store (usually stolen) body parts for scientific research.
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