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Dark Iceland volume 1
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English
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5 stars
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"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 Reykjavik--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local...
2. The darkness
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Hidden Iceland volume 1
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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"Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced...
3. The mist
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2020
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English
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"The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. 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 all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever"--...
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"Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World. Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and...
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Series:
Hidden Iceland volume 2
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday-a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness....
6. Outside
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Stranded by a snowstorm in the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge where they discover they are not alone, and must come to terms with their past to survive to see their future.
7. Rupture
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Series:
Dark Iceland volume 4
Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing, author Ragnar Jonasson's books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex. Rupture, the latest Ari Thór thriller, delivers another dark mystery that is chillingly stunning with its complexity and fluidity.
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Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic bestseller Jonasson presents a riveting new thriller spinoff from The Darkness, soon to be a TV series. 1983 At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician,...
9. Reykjavík
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Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík. What happened to Lára? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous...
10. A Ilha
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Publisher:
Editora Rua do Sabão
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
Portuguese
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Eleito pelo The Times como um dos cem melhores livros de crime desde 1945 A eletrizante continuação de A Escuridão No outono de 1987, um jovem casal viaja para os Fiordes Ocidentais, porém, as consequências são catastróficas. Dez anos depois, um pequeno grupo de amigos vai passar um fim de semana em uma antiga e isolada cabana de caça. Eles querem se reconectar, porém, um deles é encontrado morto. A inspetora Hulda Hermannsdóttir está...
11. A Escuridão
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Editora Rua do Sabão
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
Portuguese
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Eleito pelo The Times como um dos cem melhores livros de crime desde 1945. Abrangendo as ruas geladas de Reykjavik, as terras altas da Islândia e os fiordes frios e isolados, A Escuridão é um thriller emocionante de Ragnar Jónasson, o melhor nome do Noir Nórdico. O corpo de uma jovem russa aparece em uma remota praia da Islândia. Ela veio em busca de segurança, mas, em vez disso, encontrou sua sepultura. Uma investigação policial malfeita...
12. Nightblind
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"Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors--continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman--shot at point-blank range in the dead of night...
13. Whiteout
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Publisher:
Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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THE FOURTH INSTALMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When the body of a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted Icelandic village of Kálfshamarvík, Ari Thór Arason uncovers a startling and terrifying connection to an earlier series of deaths, as the killer remains on the loose… ‘Jonasson's books have breathed new life into Nordic noir'...
14. Blackout
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Dark Iceland volume 3
Language:
English
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Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues investigate a murder under the shadow of a volcanic ash cloud, while personal problems and a reporter with a secret agenda complicate their work.
15. Winterkill
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Series:
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher:
Orenda Books
Language:
English
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When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór Arason battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer ... The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international bestselling Dark Iceland series. Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the...
16. Black-out
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Series:
Dark Iceland volume Book 3
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Description:
In Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death. As a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, she is unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance.
Publisher:
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"The oldest mystery bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers, written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere--before now. The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in...
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Publisher:
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík. What happened to Lára? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous unsolved...