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42) The reckoning
Author
Series
Children's House volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick her up, her mother has forgotten to give her this week's pocket money, and the school is already locked for the day. Grownups, she decides, are useless. With no way to call home, she resigns herself to waiting on the steps until her father remembers her. When a girl approaches, Vaka recognizes her immediately from class, and...
Author
Series
Gunnhildur Gisladottir mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When Sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the local police force is called in to investigate the death of a man found tied to a bed in one of Reykjaviacutek's nicest hotels, she finds no sign of criminal activity but suspects there may be more to the case than meets the eye. Could the death of the shipowner be related to a local gangster's recent return to Iceland after many years abroad? What begins as a straightforward case for Gunnhildur soon explodes...
44) Snowblind
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors -- accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snaefells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rebels and revolutionaries disappear into the infamous prison, the Nine, never to be heard from again. Masked police roam the streets, dark magic lurks in the shadows, and the implacable flying fortress casts its baleful eye over all below. Sæmundur, addict and sorcerer, has been cast out from university, and forbidden to study magic. Dissident artist, Garún, is desperate for a just society and will do anything to achieve it. Both seek revolution...
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A luxury yacht crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the boat is empty; no one is on board. What has happened to the crew? And what has happened to the family who were very much present when the yacht left Lisbon? What should Thora Gudmundsdottir, the series sleuth, make of the rumors that the vessel was cursed? She is spooked even more when she boards the yacht and thinks she sees one of the missing children. Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife...
49) Touch: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue, a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he'd known in the sixties when they were students in London, both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a high...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the...
52) Trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she's finally escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son Tomas is taken, she's back to square one ... and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that's not all ... Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they'll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and...
Author
Publisher
Thaqāfah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
The victim: a businessman missing for thirty years.The case: impossible to solve. Until now. A woman approaches Konrad with new information and progress can finally be made. But as Konrad starts to look back at the case and secrets of the past, he is forced to come face to face with his own dark side. In 'What the Darkness Knows', the master of Icelandic crime writing reunites readers with Konrad, the unforgettable retired detective from The Shadow...
55) Whiteout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 5
Publisher
Orenda
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier. As the...
56) Cold as Hell
Author
Series
Arora investigation volume 1
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Icelandic sisters ℓr̤ra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren't on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, ℓr̤ra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realizes that her sister isn't avoiding her, she has disappeared, without trace. As she confronts Ísafold's abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Bj̲rn, and begins to probe her sister's reclusive neighbours - who have their own reasons...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both victims were part of a disastrous expedition to Iceland over ten years ago where a group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted...
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results-one of the missing man's business associates was briefly held in custody, but there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. Now the associate is arrested again and Konrad, the retired policeman who originally investigated the disappearance,...
59) Reykjavík
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík. What happened to Lára? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous...
60) Boulder
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no--and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless...
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