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Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
2) Gallows Rock
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it...The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings...
4) The wild one
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the bestselling author of The Drifter"--
5) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
7) Outside
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Stranded by a snowstorm in the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge where they discover they are not alone, and must come to terms with their past to survive to see their future.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray. Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?...
10) The island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday--a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the...
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single...
12) Blackout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues investigate a murder under the shadow of a volcanic ash cloud, while personal problems and a reporter with a secret agenda complicate their work.
13) Trahison
Author
Publisher
Métailié
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
"Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around the world, aid worker Úrsula has returned to Iceland. She accepts a high-profile government role. On her first day in the post, Úrsula promises to help a mother seeking justice for her daughter, who had been raped by a policeman, and life in high office soon becomes much more harrowing than Úrsula could ever have imagined. A homeless man is stalking her - but is he hounding her, or...
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors--continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman--shot at point-blank range in the dead of night...
15) The mist
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever"--...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Charged with the brutal murder of two men, Agnes Magnusdottier has been removed to her homeland's farthest reaches, to an isolated farm in northern Iceland, to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family on the farm avoids Agnes. Her arrival threatens the peaceful rhythm of their way of life, while her stoic approach to the daily chores is an unsettling contrast to the passion that, rumor has it, drove her...
Author
Series
Gunnhildur Gisladottir mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Officer Gunnhildur, recently promoted from her post in rural Iceland to Reykjavík{u2019}s Serious Crime Unit, is tasked with hunting down escaped convict Long Ommi, who has embarked on a spree of violent score-settling in and around the city. Meanwhile, she{u2019}s also investigating the murder of a fitness guru in her own city-center apartment. As Gunna delves into the cases, she unearths some unwelcome secrets and influential friends shared by...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT A 90-year-old man...
19) Arctic chill
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A detective whose inner turmoil threatens to consume him, Erlendur Sveinsson is charged with investigating the death of an Asian boy--and confronting forces colder than Iceland's frigid clime.
20) Rupture
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 4
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1955 two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjordur. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couple may not have been alone on the fjord after all. Ari Thor tries to piece together what happened that night.
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