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- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1987
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...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Stella Blómkvist Book 4) Sometimes murder runs in the family. Or does it? When a well-known artist is found in Snorri’s Pool with an axe buried deep in his chest, Stella Blómkvist is immediately thrown in at the deep...
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, Scotland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1790s
St Monans, Fife, Scotland 1790. Two women are forced to publicly repent in church, one for adultery the other for breaching the sabbath. Wealthy housewife, Florrie, and salt serf, Eliza, form a quick and unusual bond over their mutual...
- 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...
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