Ragnar Jónasson
1) Blackout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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 Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance.
2) Whiteout
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 5
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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. As...
3) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjördur, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Three days before Easter, a nineteen-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident, and when an old man in a local nursing home writes 'She was murdered' again and...
4) Rupture
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 chase a mystery of her own, Siglufjördur is a small town that hangs onto its secrets--no matter the cost. --
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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 volume 1
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...
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,...
8) The mist
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir 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."--Provided...
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume Book 1
Publisher
ABC-Atticus
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Ари Тор, молодой полицейский из Рейкьявика, приезжает в небольшой городок на севере Исландии, где никто не запирает дверей, – попасть сюда можно только через узкий тоннель в горах. Одиночество, снег и темнота бесконечной зимы затягивают Ари Тора в...
10) The island
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
11) Nightblind
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Th�or 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...