Tainted Blood by Arnaldur Indridason

The provided text is an extended excerpt from the novel "Tainted Blood" by Arnaldur Indriðason, translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. The initial pages contain copyright information and publication history, noting that the original Icelandic title was Mýrin and it was published in English as Jar City in Great Britain in 2004. The majority of the excerpt focuses on a police investigation led by Detective Erlendur, detailing the murder of a man named Holberg and the subsequent discovery of clues linking the crime to a decades-old rape case, a missing person, and a rare hereditary disease. The narrative follows Erlendur and his colleagues, Sigurdur Óli and Elínborg, as they interview witnesses, exhume a child's body, and ultimately uncover that Holberg's killer is Einar, the son conceived from one of Holberg's rapes and who used genetic research to learn the truth about his parentage and his daughter's death from the same disease.