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1) The legacy
Author
Series
Children's House volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first in a stunning new series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel.
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 hiding in the room where her mother
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"'I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It's pretty cozy.' Herra Bjornsson is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three--she has booked her cremation appointment, at a crispy 1,000 degrees, so it won't be long. But until then she has her cigarettes, a World War II-era weapon, some Facebook friends, and her memories to sustain her. And what a life this remarkable...
4) Blackout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an...
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
"Named One of the Year's Top Ten Crime Books in the UK... A Masterwork of Suspense from "Iceland's Crime Queen" (The Scotsman) In 1973, a volcanic eruption buried an entire Icelandic village in lava and ash. Now this macabre tourist attraction proves deadly once again--when the discovery of fresh bodies casts a shadow of suspicion onto Markus Magnusson, a man accused of killing his childhood sweetheart. His attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir finds that...
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thóra is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the disappearance of a woman from the site some months earlier? And why are the locals so hostile?
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
10) Magma: a novel
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. Before she even realizes, she's moved in with him, living in his cramped apartment, surrounded by sour towels and flat Diet Cokes. As the newfound intimacy of sharing a shower and a bed fuels her desire to please her partner, his quiet...
11) Woman at war
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Icelandic
Description
50-year-old Halla, a passionate environmental activist, secretly wages war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland--but discovers her application to adopt has finally been approved and there is a child in the Ukraine waiting for her.
12) The mist
Author
Series
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"--...
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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