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1) The darkness
Author
Series
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...
2) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES
**Sunday Times BOOK OF THE MONTH**
'JÓnasson is an automatic must-read for me ... possibly the best Scandi writer working today' Lee Child
'Is this the best crime writer in the world today? ... Truly a master of his genre' The Times
'The engaging Ari Thor returns in this darkly claustrophobic tale. Perfect
3) Blackout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 3
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.
4) Whiteout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 5
Publisher
Orenda Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarsvík. 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 Thór Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier. As...
5) The island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A small group of friends go for a weekend to an old hunting lodge on the isolated island Ellidaey to reconnect in a beautiful place completely cut off from the outside world. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik police department is at the peak of her career and determined to find out the truth. Could this death have links to the murder of a young woman ten years previously...
6) The mist
Author
Series
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
Language
English
Description
A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child-now a grown man, haunted by the past-calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent...
Author
Series
An Officer Gunnhildur mystery volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
11) Cold comfort
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Officer Gunnhildur, recently promoted from her post in rural Iceland to Reyjkavík'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'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 both guru and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On loan to the Icelandic Police Force, former Boston detective Magnus Jonson is forced to confront difficult truths about his father's murder while investigating rumors about a priceless ancient manuscript.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An unidentified body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was the stranger's death an accident or something more sinister? It's up to Officer Gunnhildur, a sardonic female cop, to find out"--P. [4] of cover.
14) 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.
16) Riveted
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Serving on an airship one hundred years after a volcanic eruption decimated Iceland, Annika holds the secrets about her community's survival while her sister, Kalla, lives in exile.
17) Rupture
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Ari Thâor reopens an unsolved fifty-year old murder case, he teams up with âIsrâun, a news reporter from Reykjavik, but the case proves difficult in a town with secrets and no one wants to know the truth.
1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. 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...
18) Hypothermia
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unofficially investigating a suspicious suicide, Inspector Erlendur becomes increasingly unsettled by the unsolved cases of two young people who went missing decades earlier under circumstances tied to his own past.
19) The undesired
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
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?...
Author
Series
Reykjavik wartime mysteries volume 1
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...
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