Jar City, also known as Tainted Blood (Icelandic: Mýrin, "The Bog") ( listen), is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000. In the UK, the title was changed to Tainted Blood when the paperback edition was released.
The novel won the Scandinavian crime writers' Glass Key award in 2002. In 2003, Arnaldur Indriðason's following novel, Silence of the Grave, also won the award, making him the first author to have won the award two years in a row.
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Famous quotes containing the words tainted and/or blood:
“We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The cloud was so dark that it needed all the bright lights that could be turned upon it. But for four years there was a contagion of nobility in the land, and the best blood North and South poured itself out a libation to propitiate the deities of Truth and Justice. The great sin of slavery was washed out, but at what a cost!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)