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1) The darkness
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. 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...
2) Rupture
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New evidence for a 50-year-old murder surfaces, leading young policeman Ari Thor to reopen the investigation. But even with the help of a news reporter in town to chase a mystery of her own, Siglufjördur is a small town that hangs onto its secrets--no matter the cost. --
Author
Series
Children's House volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Absolution is the third installment in Queen of Icelandic crime fiction Yrsa Sigurdardóttir's series about the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows a terrified young woman begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number "2". Detective Huldar joins the investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help...
4) Reykjavík
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later, as the...
5) 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
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge on the isolated island Ellidaey to reconnect in a beautiful place that's 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...
7) The legacy
Author
Series
Children's House volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Book for Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The murder was meant as a punishment - but what sin could justify the method? The only person who might have answers is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, who was found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she's not talking. Newly promoted, out of his depth, Detective Huldar turns to Freyja and the Children's House for their expertise with traumatized young people. Freyja, who distrusts the police in general and Huldar in particular, isn't...
Author
Series
Reykjavik wartime mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, following The Shadow District. ... A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavík, shot in the head with a pistol. The police's attention is immediately drawn to the foreign soldiers who are on every street corner in the summer of 1941. So begins officers Flóvent and Thorson's investigation, which will...
9) 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 theater,...
Author
Series
Reykjavik wartime mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Two crimes linked across decades. A murderer still at work in the deadly shadows. THE PAST: In wartime Reykjavik, Iceland, 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 ninety-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective...
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
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...
13) Hypothermia
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Downtrodden detective Erlendur and his team must once again look into Reykjavik's hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Alive with tension and atmosphere, and disturbingly real, this is an outstanding continuation of the Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
15) Voices
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur novel volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At a grand Reykjavík hotel where the doorman has been stabbed in his dingy basement room and the manager is trying to keep the murder under wraps, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson searches for a killer among the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel.
16) Outrage
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Reykjavík, Saturday night: he offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give him no trouble ... 48 hours later a young man is found dead in a pool of blood, wearing a woman's t-shirt, while a bottle of Rohypnol lies on the table nearby...
17) Reykjavik nights
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When a [homeless man] he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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...
19) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjoerdur, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thor Arason is now a police inspector, but he's separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before...
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...
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