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:
“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps
yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just
that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned out star.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)