Portrayal of Oli's life as detective in Arnaldur Indridason's Black Skies

This research aims to explain the process of Oli’s life journey during his time as a detective in the novel Black Skies. This research reveals several forms of situations and case that he had to deal during his life when eventually working as a detective to solve the criminal. This research focuses on three research questions: How does Oli’s character as detective described, What cases does Oli faced as detective, and How does Oli handle the case portrayed in Black Skies? This study uses qualitative methods that closely relates to a systematic and descriptive explanation of the data analysis. This research uses new criticsm theory as a tool for analysis. This study also applies the elements of crime fiction as a supporting indication for analyzing the phenomena of criminal. The researcher finds the narratives and quotes which explain Oli’s characterization and the crime case he faced in the novel Black Skies. This study’s results shows Oli’s physical appearence and character as a detective. Meanwhile, the detective story of oli begins when his old friend ask for help to shrink an outstanding criminal case. Oli immediately takes action to handle the case by himself as a detective. Oli faces with the “swinging” party criminal case, the death of one the suspects, Lina, then the case about a debt collector who tricks many people. Also, a rumour of violence against children. Oli’s ways to handle the criminal case is in the form of investigations and tracing the suspecct of the “swinging” case and investigation the murder of Lina by interrogation her closest person. After that, the result from investigation of debt collector which turned out to be related to the previous case