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Jar City
''Jar City'', also known as ''Tainted Blood'' (''Icelandic: Mýrin'', "The Bog") (), is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000. It was the first in the Detective Erlendur series to be translated into English (in 2004). In the UK, the title was changed to ''Tainted Blood'' when the paperback edition was released.〔
The novel is at one level a fierce critique of the gene-gathering work of deCODE genetics:
:: far from reinforcing the kind of myths of Icelandic national identity promoted by eugenicists earlier in the twentieth century and re-invoked by the publicity machine around DeCODE, Indriđason’s novel uses the figure of the defective gene not only to expose and trouble national mythologies of social and familial cohesion and continuity but to ask some fundamental questions about the meaning of innocence and guilt, justice and punishment in the face of the identification of genes that bear the secret not of life but of death.〔Lucy Burke, 'Genetics and the Scene of the Crime: DeCODING Tainted Blood', ''Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies'', 6 (2012), 193–208. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2012.16.〕
==Plot introduction==
The body of a 70-year-old man has been found in a flat in Norðurmýri having been struck on the head with a glass ashtray. The only clues are a photograph of a young girl's grave, and cryptic note left on the body. Detective Erlendur discovers the victim was accused of a violent rape some forty years earlier, but was never convicted...
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