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1) The mist
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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"--...
2) Winterkill
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES 'Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me … possibly the best Scandi writer working today' Lee Child 'The best crime writer in the world today … truly a master of his genre' The Times 'The engaging Ari Thor returns in this darkly claustrophobic tale. Perfect mid-winter reading' Ann Cleeves -- A blizzard is approaching Siglufjörður, and that can only...
3) The island
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
4) Whiteout
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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' Sunday Express 'Jónasson...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades...
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 48
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1997, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While searching in Iceland for a missing sailor sought by an insurance company, the teen-age detective brothers uncover a plot threatening the life of a United States astronaut and the secrets of NASA's moon project.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A luxury yacht crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the boat is empty; no one is on board. What has happened to the crew? And what has happened to the family who were very much present when the yacht left Lisbon? What should Thora Gudmundsdottir, the series sleuth, make of the rumors that the vessel was cursed? She is spooked even more when she boards the yacht and thinks she sees one of the missing children. Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a woman's body is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, investigators discover shocking secrets in her past. First in the disturbing, chillingly atmospheric, addictive new Forbidden Iceland series. ***Winner of the Storytel Award for Best Crime Novel 2020*** ***Winner of the Blackbird Award for Best Icelandic Crime Novel*** ***Shortlisted for the Amazon Publishing Readers Award for Best Independent Voice*** ***Shortlisted...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood... the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." -- Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few...
13) Cold as Hell
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Áróra returns to Iceland when her estranged sister goes missing, and her search leads to places she could never have imagined. A chilling, tense standalone thriller from one of Iceland's bestselling authors... Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren't on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realizes that her...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
15) Night Shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair's perfect placement turns deadly ... The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series. ***WINNER of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger*** ‘Fans of Nordic Noir will love this' Ann Cleeves ‘Elma is a fantastic heroine' Sunday Times ‘Chilling and addictive,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
17) Avalon: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A novel of England during the Viking era, from an author who "has vividly and colorfully portrayed life during the tumultuous Dark Ages" (Historical Novels Review). The last quarter of the tenth century was a time of conflict and exploration -- while the Anglo-Saxons fought against the Vikings, Norsemen voyaged into the unknown looking for new lands to pillage, and so discovered America. Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred,...
18) Cage
Author
Series
Reykjavik noir trilogy (French) volume t. 3
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed. Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
20) The lost house
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"In Melissa Larsen's The Lost House comes the mesmerizing story of a young woman with a haunting past who returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a gruesome murder in her family. Forty years ago, a young woman and her infant daughter were found buried in the cold Icelandic snow, lying together as peacefully as though sleeping. Except the mother's throat had been slashed and the infant drowned. The case was never solved. There were...
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