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The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Elliðaey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is sent to the isolated island of Elliðaey to investigate a disappearance. But she finds haunting similarities to an old case – the murder of a young woman ten years ago. Has a patient killer...

The Legacy

The Legacy
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): present

The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found...

The Mist

The Mist
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1987

1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn’t. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not...

The Northern Lights Lodge

The Northern Lights Lodge
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect...

The Prey

The Prey
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Victoria Cribb (translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland, The Highlands (Iceland)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY. Kolbeinn has been called to his old home. The new owners uncovered some photos, and a muddied child’s shoe bearing the name ‘Salvor’. A name Kolbeinn doesn’t recognise. Soon after, he hears...

The Raven’s Nest

The Raven’s Nest
  • Location(s): Westfjords
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nature, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Earlier 21st Century

Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade,...

The Sealwoman’s Gift

The Sealwoman’s Gift
  • Author(s): Sally Magnusson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children. In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history...

The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake

The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake
  • Author(s): Sif Sigmarsdottir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The captivating, feminist YA thriller. The snow is falling thick and fast now. Snow in Iceland is dangerous. Hannah Eiríksdóttir has been banished from her home in London to a place of eternal punishment for the wicked. No, not...

The Vagabond Mother

The Vagabond Mother
  • Author(s): Tracey Scott-Townsend
  • Location(s): Australia, Germany, Iceland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

All Maya Galen wanted was a happy family, stifling the inner urges she had to explore the wider world, for the sake of being there for her children. But parenting with her husband, Con, wasn’t always easy. Their eldest...

Thirty Days of Darkness

Thirty Days of Darkness
  • Author(s): Jenny Lund Madsen, Megan Turney (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer’s block, Hannah has the feeling that she’s doing something wrong. When she...

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