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- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 2: Áróra Investigation series When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has been kidnapped....
- Location(s): Siglufjörður, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s and modern
1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes...
- Location(s): Berlin, Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
Description: In the rubble of post-World War II Berlin, artist Charlotte flees her past and everything she’s lost by responding to an ad calling for ‘strong women who can cook and do farm work’ in Iceland. But painful memories...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in...
- Location(s): Siglufjörður
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Siglufjorour: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik...
- 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. Detective Erlendur is forced to use all the...
- Location(s): Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 11th Century
A haunting, compelling historical novel, “The Sea Road” is a daring re-telling of the 11th-century Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in...
- 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....
- 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...
Unraveled: A Novel about a Meltdown
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2008
After a 12-year absence from Iceland, Frida returns home with her husband Damien, a suave and sophisticated British diplomat who has just been made Ambassador to Iceland. It is summer 2008, and the global economy is on shaky ground....
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