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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...

An Icelandic Adventure

An Icelandic Adventure
  • Author(s): S Bavey
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2024

Join the Bavey family in the Land of Ice and Fire. Experience 24-hour daylight, waterfalls galore, a nail-biting super jeep trip up a mountain onto the largest glacier in Europe, a duck boat tour on an iceberg lagoon and...

Armchair Iceland: A Puzzle Game-Inspired Travel Adventure Book for Grown-Ups

Armchair Iceland: A Puzzle Game-Inspired Travel Adventure Book for Grown-Ups
  • Author(s): Vegout Voyage
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Puzzle
  • Era(s): Mostly modern Iceland

✨ Explore Iceland from Home with Brain-Boosting Puzzles & Trivia ✨ Got Iceland on your bucket list? Looking for a dopamine hit without screen time guilt? Armchair Iceland has you covered! From Viking sagas to volcanic craters, this one-of-a-kind...

Betrayal

Betrayal
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When aid worker Úrsula returns to Iceland for a new job, she’s drawn into the dangerous worlds of politics, corruption and misogyny … a powerful, relevant, fast-paced standalone thriller. ____________________ Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around...

Black as Death

Black as Death
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when Ísafold’s boyfriend – the prime suspect in her...

Boudoir

Boudoir
  • Author(s): Sigrún Pálsdóttir, Lytton Smith (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s forward

Teddý lives with her parents on a farm in the Icelandic wilderness. It’s 1962, and the world is changing, although you wouldn’t know it from the stark quiet of the lava fields and mountains that mark the boundaries of...

Boulder

Boulder
  • Author(s): Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (Translator)
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, LGBTQIA+
  • 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,...

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