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- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1829
In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district office Jón Jónsson, his wife...
- 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...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik’s smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 2000s
Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases – the first in tracking down an escaped convict who’s keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness...
- Location(s): Iceland, Minnesota
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Police Procedural, Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A murder is just the beginning… When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn’t...
- 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...
Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain
- Location(s): Raufarhöfn, Iceland
- Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
- Era(s): 20th Century (Soviet era)
Kalmann is back! But he’s already in trouble; in an interrogation room at the FBI headquarters in Washington, no less. All he wanted to do was visit his American father, but the loveable sheriff of Raufarhöfn got himself mixed...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a...
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