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  • Author(s): Jón Atli Jónasson, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dóra struggles to cope with life after taking a bullet to the head. Rado is the child of refugees, his career shunted off the tracks due to his family connections to an organised crime gang. But they’re the only...

Burning Karma

Burning Karma
  • Author(s): David Rafn Kristjannson
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Böddi wakes up in a hospital bed one morning with no idea of what has happened to put him there. While still in hospital he has an intense psychological Experience which leaves him realizing it is time to change...

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...

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