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- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 1: An Áróra Investigation Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren’t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon...
- 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): 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...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A huge, humane revelation of a novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century, written by the Nobel prize-winner dubbed the ‘Tolstoy of the North’. A magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and a man’s...
- Location(s): Raufarhöfn
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kalmann is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns...
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1974
Every Icelander knows about the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur disappearances. 1974. In two separate incidents, two men vanished into thin air. Then, out of it, came six murder confessions and six convictions. Yet, in the decades that followed, these too...
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