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Thin Ice

Thin Ice
  • Author(s): Quentin Bates
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Snowed in with a couple of psychopaths for the winter… When two small-time crooks rob Reykjavik’s premier drugs dealer, hoping for a quick escape to the sun, their plans start to unravel after their getaway driver fails to show....

Trap

Trap
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2011

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s finally escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son Tomas is taken, she’s back to square one … and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial...

Jar City (1)

Jar City (1)
  • Author(s): Arnaldur Indridason
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl’s grave. Delving into the dead man’s life Detective Erlendur...

Deceit

Deceit
  • Author(s): Jónína Leósdóttir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction. Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the police before,...

Winterlude

Winterlude
  • Author(s): A S A Harrison, Quentin Bates
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s a bitter winter morning when Sergeant Gunnhildur is called to the scene of a violent killing in an abandoned industrial unit. Gunna and her sidekick Helgi quickly find that the battered victim had no shortage of enemies. The...

Boulder

Boulder
  • Author(s): Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (Translator)
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname ‘Boulder’. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together,...

Fish Can Sing

Fish Can Sing
  • Author(s): Halldor Laxness
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch...

Reykjavík

Reykjavík
  • Author(s): Katrín Jakobsdottír, Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Reykjavik, Videy Island
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1986 looking back to 1956

What happened to Lara? Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lára spends 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. The mystery becomes...

The Girl by the Bridge

The Girl by the Bridge
  • Author(s): Arnaldur Indridason
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Konrad Book 2) When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective Konrád. Still looking for his own father’s murderer, Konrád agrees to investigate the...

White as Snow

White as Snow
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir, Quentin Bates
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 3: Áróra Investigation Series On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women – one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to...

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