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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...

Road To True North

Road To True North
  • Author(s): Sarah Holding
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): Young Adult, Coming of Age

On the brink of adulthood, Olly’s life has fallen apart after a disastrous summer of failed exams and first love, resulting in a police warning and a mental health diagnosis. Olly’s father, Sean, decides to take him on a...

Secrets of the Sprakkar

Secrets of the Sprakkar
  • Author(s): Eliza Reid
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Biography
  • Era(s): Various

Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman-but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in...

Snowblind / Fadeout

Snowblind / Fadeout
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson, Larissa Kyzer (Translator), Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SNOWBLIND Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in...

Snug in Iceland

Snug in Iceland
  • Author(s): Victoria Walker
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rachel Richards is stuck in a rut. Her boyfriend Adam barely notices her most of the time and her life in London isn’t as exciting as it should be. When the company she works for, Snug, asks her to...

The Clues in the Fjord

The Clues in the Fjord
  • Author(s): Satu Rämö, Kristian London (Translator)
  • Location(s): Westfjords
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hildur Rúnarsdottir is the only police detective working on the isolated west coast of Iceland. She is desperate to forget her traumatic past by burying herself in her cases alongside her new trainee, Jakob Johanson. But Jakob’s life has...

The Darkness

The Darkness
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She’s just another statistic, soon forgotten. But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early...

The Doll

The Doll
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Espionage
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever. They catch nothing except a broken doll that gets tangled in the...

The Eliza Doll

The Eliza Doll
  • Author(s): Tracey Scott-Townsend
  • Location(s): Iceland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989s to present

Ellie and her ex-husband Jonah have gone on a trip to Iceland together at the request of their grown-up daughter. Standing in the cacophonous roar of an ice-ridden waterfall they reflect on what they might have done to change...

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