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- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests seemingly missing. Four strangers struggle to find shelter...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A successful housebreaker who leaves no traces and no clues as he strips Reykjavík homes of their valuables has been a thorn in the police’s side for months. But when one night the thief breaks into the wrong house,...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1635
The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jónas Pálmason,...
- Location(s): Siglufjörður
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
The peace of a close-knit Icelandic community is shattered by the murder of a policeman – shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
International thriller from renowned political journalist Adam LeBor, taking us behind the scenes in the corridors of power. UN covert negotiator, Yael Azoulay, has been sent to Reykjavik to broker a secret meeting between US President Freshwater and the...
- Location(s): Iceland, Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 19th to early 20th centuries
A father and son struggle to overcome the distance between them. Each is drawn irresistibly to an unforgiving landscape, one that has been the scene of tragedy and loss. The son’s return to the northern shore he abandoned as...
- Location(s): Kalfshamarsvik
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarvík. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 2000s
The discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels the village of Hvalvik’s police sergeant Gunnhildur into deep waters. Although under pressure to deal with the matter...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a ‘death mask’, once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind. Meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer’s night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from...