Icelandic Suspense

The Icelandic nation has a long and rich history of storytelling. Throughout centuries characterized by hardship, poverty, and dark winters, the Icelanders kept their spirits high and moral values intact by telling each other stories. In this collection of 15 Icelandic folk legends, we get a glimpse of the world view of the Icelanders in centuries past as they endeavored to understand and cope with the natural phenomena around them. There are stories of malicious ghosts, outlaws living in carved-out boulders, hidden people residing in grassy knolls...

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life...until her body is found in the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected 15-year-old daughter, Hekla, has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?

Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realises that her sister isn’t avoiding her...she has disappeared. As she confronts Ísafold’s abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Björn, and begins to probe her sister’s reclusive neighbours, Áróra is led into an ever-darker web of intrigue and manipulation.

"Fans of Nordic noir will enjoy this performance. For those new to the genre and looking for an easy start, Barrett offers an expert entry into a world of danger and intrigue." –AudioFile Magazine Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur...

A lost 11th-century codex. A dying collector. A frost that feeds on human fear. David Cartwright lives by a single rule: precision is safety. As a senior conservator at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, he preserves ancient history from behind sterile laboratory glass, measuring decay in relative humidity and ambient temperature. Controlled environments don’t change. Controlled environments don’t break. Until an encrypted email arrives from a remote estate in the French Auvergne. The dying Monsieur Henri Laurent offers the Bodleian first rights to the Skeiðar-bók—a legendary 11th-century...

The wealthy, powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland’s remote Snæfellsnes peninsula. Petra Snæberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose social-media presence has attracted the wrong kind of followers. As the weather deteriorates and the alcohol flows, one of the guests disappears, and it becomes clear that there is a prowler lurking in the dark. But is the real danger inside...within the family itself?

"Lucy Paterson brings finely honed narration skills to this mystery involving bullying, trauma, and murder." — AudioFile Magazine The Absolution is the third installment in Queen of Icelandic crime fiction Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s series about the psychologist Freyja and the police officer...

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women - one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there.

"With a remarkable ability to subtly distinguish myriad characters, Lucy Patterson masterfully narrates this thriller...Her timing and delivery, including subtle pauses and sighs, are transfixing." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner From Yrsa Sigurdardottir, author of the...

From Ragnar Jónasson, the award-winning author of the international bestselling Ari Thór series, The Girl Who Died is a standalone thriller about a young woman seeking a new start in a secluded village where a small community is desperate to protect its secrets. Teacher Wanted At the Edge of...

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . . Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The...

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb **'The undisputed Queen of Icelandic Noir' Simon Kernick** AMONG THE MOURNERS AT A FUNERAL, ONE OF IS THEM IS A KILLER... A group of young professionals travel to the Westman Islands off the coast of Iceland to attend an old friend's wake. Their...

From the author of The Body in the Bath comes Ragnar Jónasson next mystery featuring detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir, who must investigate a twenty-year-old unsolved missing child case. On Christmas Eve in 1960, a man named Atli leaves his house in Reykjavík unlocked and walks through the snow...

An Epic Clash of Faith and Reason Amid the Ravages of the Black Death The spellbinding prequel to Terminal Warfare: Lady, Scientist, Lover, Spy in which the ancient world grapples with the collision of faith and reason in the shadow of a devastating pandemic. Delve into the enchanting world of the ancient Icelandic sagas at one of the landmark events in world history: the era of the Black Death which decimated Europe and has lessons for today and our collective future as the human race. As the Black Death sweeps across 14th-century Europe, a mysterious dark rider appears on the glacial ...

On a long, cold Icelandic night in March 1920, Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, finds himself with an unwanted lodger - Sigurd, an injured stranger who offers a story from the past. But some stories, even those of an old man who can barely walk, are too dangerous to hear. They alter the listeners' lives forever...by ending them. Others are keen on changing Gunnar's life as well. Depending on who gets to tell his story, it might lead toward an unwanted marriage, an intervention, rejoining the Church, letting the elf drive him insane, or succumbing to the demons in his mind. 

In places of darkness, women will rise . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm two sisters—Freyja and Gudrun—rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five years later, a young woman—Sigga—is spending time with her grandmother when...

Á einu augabragði var framtíð Matts Hunter þurrkuð út: Slagsmál, vinur í klemmu, og brestur í höfuðkúpu sem skall á steinsteypu. Fyrir þetta þurfti hann að gjalda fjögur ár i fangelsi og brot af sjálfum sér. Þegar honum er sleppt er hann eldri og skynsamari. Hann fær gott starf og gengur að eiga dásamlega konu. Einn dag fær hann sendar undarlegar myndir af eiginkonu sinni með ókunnum karlmanni, allt í einu er hann hundeltur af lögreglu sem einu sinni var skólafélagi hans. Nú er einhver á hælum hans sem ógnar öllu því sem hann hefur streðað til þess að eignast.

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