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Dark as Night

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

When Áróra receives a call telling her that a child she’s never met is claiming to be her missing sister reincarnated, she is devastated … as ridiculous as the allegations might seem. For three years she has been searching...

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...

Faith of their Fathers

Faith of their Fathers
  • Author(s): Samuel M Sargeant
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 11th Century

A gripping and taut Icelandic historical thriller by debut author Samuel M. Sargeant. False God. At the dawn of the 11th Century in a small Icelandic settlement, these words, daubed in blood, herald the arrival of a killer. Soon,...

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...

Ignited in Iceland

Ignited in Iceland
  • Author(s): Victoria Walker
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Iris, an English volcanologist, arrives in Iceland focused solely on her research. But when she meets Siggi, a charismatic local with a complicated past, his passion for showing her Iceland’s geological wonders ignites unexpected feelings. Cautious but drawn to...

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 True Word

One True Word
  • Author(s): Snæbjörn Arngrímsson, Larissa Kyzer (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Why did she do it? After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, Júlia snaps and leaves her husband Gíó marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic...

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...

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