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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...

Ashes to Dust

Ashes to Dust
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Heimaey
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1973 to present

Thóra peered at the floor, but couldn’t see anything that could have frightened Markús that much, only three mounds of dust. She moved the light of her torch over them. It took her some time to realize what she...

The Commandments

The Commandments
  • Author(s): Óskar Guðmundsson, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): North Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The victim is someone she had pursued earlier in her career – and had never been able to pin down. Now a killer has taken the law into their own hands and meted out brutal retribution for ancient crimes....

The Heart of Man

The Heart of Man
  • Author(s): Jón Kalman Stefánsson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has...

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,...

The Ice Lands

The Ice Lands
  • Author(s): Steinar Bragi
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set against Iceland’s volcanic hinterlands, four thirty-somethings from Reykjavik – the reckless hedonist Egill; the recovering alcoholic Hrafin; and their partners Anna and Vigdis – embark on an ambitious camping trip, their jeep packed with supplies. Victims of the...

A Haunting in the Arctic

A Haunting in the Arctic
  • Author(s): C J Cooke
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Horror
  • Era(s): 1901 / 1973

Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for almost a century. Something that craves revenge… 1901. On board the Ormen, a whaling ship battling through the unforgiving North Sea, Nicky Duthie awakes. Attacked and dragged there against her...

About the Size of the Universe

About the Size of the Universe
  • Author(s): Jón Kalman Stefánsson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Recent

t the beginning of this story there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life – the passion between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence, sorrow, betrayal. Happiness and misfortune are passed down from one...

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,...

Burning Karma

Burning Karma
  • Author(s): David Rafn Kristjannson
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Böddi wakes up in a hospital bed one morning with no idea of what has happened to put him there. While still in hospital he has an intense psychological Experience which leaves him realizing it is time to change...

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