Ragnar Jónasson
1) The mist
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland ; 3
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) The island
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland ; 2
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...
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland ; 1
Language
English
Description
"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...
4) Snowblind
Author
Series
Dark Iceland ; 1
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 local...
5) Outside
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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."--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Dark Iceland ; 2
Language
English
Description
"Ari Thór Arason is a local policeman, who has an uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by a murder. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by a murder. One of Ari's colleagues is gunned down at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the...
8) Reykjavík
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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...
9) Blackout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland ; 3
Language
English
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 Reykjavik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance." --
10) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland ; 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjoerdur, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thor Arason is now a police inspector, but he's separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before...
11) Rupture
Author
Series
Dark Iceland ; 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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." --
New evidence for a 50-year-old murder surfaces, leading young policeman Ari Thor to reopen the investigation. But even with the help of a news reporter in town to...
12) Whiteout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland ; 5
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarsvík. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thór Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
La nueva serie policiaca de uno de los grandes autores bestseller de la novela negra. Una de las mejores 100 novelas negras desde 1945 según The Times. «Hulda es la mejor heroína de novela negra que hemos leído en mucho tiempo.» The Times MÁS DE 4.000.000 DE LECTORES
Una investigadora al límite de la jubilación.
Una arriesgada proposición.
Y solo quince días para resolver el caso más difícil de toda su carrera.
Hulda Hermannsdóttir ha...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Description
No remuevas el pasado, hay verdades que es mejor ignorar. El cuarto caso del policía islandés Ari Thór.
Han pasado muchos años desde la última vez que Ásta puso un pie en Kálfshamarsnes, una pequeña lengua de tierra del norte de Islandia en la que parece que el tiempo se hubiera congelado: las rocas basálticas, imponentes y hermosas; las vastas extensiones de tierra, con sus luces y sombras; y, por encima de todo, el faro. En esos lugares...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Asesinar a un policía es siempre algo personal.
En medio de la noche polar azotada por el viento y la lluvia, Herjólfur, el nuevo inspector jefe de la policía de Siglufjördur, es asesinado a sangre fría en una casa abandonada a las afueras de la ciudad. ¿Qué lo llevó allí a esa hora, a ese lugar sobre el que se cuentan desde hace años misteriosas historias? Ari Thór iniciará una investigación al lado de Tómas, su antiguo superior, quien...