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1) Nightblind
Author
Physical Desc
213 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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. 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 dark arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Th̤r to piece together...
2) The mist
Author
Series
Physical Desc
301 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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"--...
3) The island
Author
Series
Hidden Iceland volume 2
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
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) The darkness
Author
Physical Desc
317 pages : map ; 25 cm
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...
5) Snowblind
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 1
Physical Desc
310 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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...
Author
Physical Desc
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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...
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