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1) The mist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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) 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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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...
5) Reykjavík
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a high platform....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Erlender places her in charge during his leave of absence, Elinborg tackles a disturbing serial rapist case that has the local police racing against time to prevent another attack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjav�k, shot in the head with a pistol. The police's attention is immediately drawn to the foreign soldiers who are on every street corner in the summer of 1941. So begins officers Fl�vent and Thorson's investigation, which will lead them down a path darker than either of them expected, and force them to reckon with their own demons--
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her brother goes missing after contacting her from the site of an Icelandic rescue mission, Kristin is pursued by vigilantes from the U.S. Army and discovers a conspiracy involving a crashed World War II plane and the fate of its survivors.
10) Codex 1962
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
517 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sjon's epic three-part masterpiece, weaving together ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths, Codex 1962 encompasses genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, Fortean studies, genetics, and the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling --
11) Reykjavik nights
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason, the "undisputed King of the Icelandic thriller." -The Guardian (UK) A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjokull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results-one of the missing man's business associates was briefly held in...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT A 90-year-old man is...
15) Hotel silence
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
February 2018.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely handyman discovers new meaning in his life when he visits a dilapidated hotel in a war-torn country. Divorced and lonely, Jn̤as Ebeneser leaves his home in Iceland for a city thousands of miles away pummeled by war and violence, now at tentative peace. He brings with him only his toolbox, scars, and grief. While he plans his suicide, the people of the town draw him out with their endless list of broken items to be fixed-- and into a world...
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the author humorously recounts the time his grandfather got stranded with a friend on Surtsey, a brand new volcanic island in Iceland. The adventurers face epic challenges like molten lava, melted eyeglasses and scant supplies before finally getting rescued. Graphic novel-like layouts and spirited text invite readers to search for the one thing that's not actually true in this thrilling yet light-hearted tale of adventure. Endnotes...
17) Nightblind
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Thor 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 night...
18) Voices
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At a grand Reykjavik hotel where the doorman has been stabbed in his dingy basement room and the manager is trying to keep the murder under wraps, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson searches for a killer among the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are...
20) The dark tower
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. The last Gunslinger, Roland has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the epic battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.--From container.
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