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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it’s leaked to the press. As he interviews...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect...
- Location(s): Iceland, The Highlands (Iceland)
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY. Kolbeinn has been called to his old home. The new owners uncovered some photos, and a muddied child’s shoe bearing the name ‘Salvor’. A name Kolbeinn doesn’t recognise. Soon after, he hears...
- Location(s): Westfjords
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nature, Travelogue
- Era(s): Earlier 21st Century
Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade,...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century
1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children. In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history...
- Location(s): Westfjords
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): 1995 / 2022
1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it’s not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal...
The Shadow of the Northern Lights
- Location(s): Ísafjörður (Isafjordur)
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN THE HILDUR SERIES As Christmas comes to the west cost of Iceland, a corpse is found in a fish farming pond. Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir and trainee Jakob Johanson barely have time to start their...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
The captivating, feminist YA thriller. The snow is falling thick and fast now. Snow in Iceland is dangerous. Hannah Eiríksdóttir has been banished from her home in London to a place of eternal punishment for the wicked. No, not...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mythology
- Era(s): Early 20th Century / 1970
In places of darkness, women will rise . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm, two sisters – Freyja and Gudrun – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five...
- Location(s): Australia, Germany, Iceland, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
All Maya Galen wanted was a happy family, stifling the inner urges she had to explore the wider world, for the sake of being there for her children. But parenting with her husband, Con, wasn’t always easy. Their eldest...
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