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Cold as Hell

Cold as Hell
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • 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...

Dead Sweet

Dead Sweet
  • Author(s): Katrín Júlíusdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • 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...

Death at the Sanatorium

Death at the Sanatorium
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): North Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that never closed . . . Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, The Akureyri Sanatorium now sits haunted by the ghosts of its past. But a single...

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...

I Remember You

I Remember You
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Hesteyri
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

In this terrifying tale, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house in a remote, totally isolated location. But they soon realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave. Meanwhile, in a...

Independent People

Independent People
  • Author(s): Halldor Laxness
  • 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...

Kalmann

Kalmann
  • Author(s): Joachim B Schmidt, Jamie Lee Searle (Translator)
  • 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...

One Winter’s Night

One Winter’s Night
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To look to the future, you first have to face your past… With Christmas just around the corner, Molly Bliss has almost hit rock bottom. After the heart-breaking loss of her parents, an escape to Iceland to spend the...

Out of Thin Air

Out of Thin Air
  • Author(s): Anthony Adeane
  • 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...

Red Milk

Red Milk
  • Author(s): Sjón, Victoria Cribb (translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1950s

Gunnar Kampen grows up in Iceland during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. At nineteen he seems set for a conventional, dutiful life. And yet in the spring of 1958, he founds...

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