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At a university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family isn't convinced that the right man is in custody. They ask Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, an attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. It isn't long before Thóra and her associate, Matthew Reich, uncover the deceased student's obsession with...
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Elizabeth Hand brings us a searing and iconoclastic crime novel, in which photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of crime in Scandinavia's coldest corners.
As this riveting tour-de-force opens, the police already want to talk to Cass about a mysterious death she was involved with previously, but before they can bring her in, Cass accepts a job offer from overseas and...
5) Blackout
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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.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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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 make alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the...
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Minotaur Books
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[2018].
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First U.S. edition.
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A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavik, 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 Flovent 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.
9) Rupture
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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First U.S. edition.
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In 1955 two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjordur. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couple may not have been alone on the fjord after all. Ari Thor tries to piece together what happened that night.
10) The mist
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First U.S. edition.
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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....
11) Cage
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Orenda Books
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2019.
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"The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis, Maria find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in...
12) The absolution
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Children's house volume 3
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows a terrified young woman begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number "2". Detective Huldar joins the investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help question the murdered teenager's friends. Soon, they uncover that Stella was far from the angel people claim, but who could have hated her enough to kill? Then another...
13) The legacy
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2018.
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The murder was meant as a punishment - but what sin could justify the method? The only person who might have answers is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, who was found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she's not talking. Newly promoted, out of his depth, Detective Huldar turns to Freyja and the Children's House for their expertise with traumatized young people. Freyja, who distrusts the police in general and Huldar in particular, isn't...
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Winter and Josh were the most envied celebrity couple in Hollywood. But the world didn't see their heartbreak of having the fairy tale--and losing it! Now they're unexpectedly reunited in Iceland, and the press is watching! Time apart has changed them, but their undeniable connection is more magnetic than ever. Keeping their budding renewal secret adds an excitement they haven't felt in a while. Is it enough to spark a forever reunion?
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In the mystical Snæfellsnes region on Iceland's west coast-at a New Age health resort in a renovated farmhouse-the body of a young woman is discovered, savagely beaten, with pins inserted into her feet. Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, lawyer and single mother of two, has been retained to represent the resort's owner and prime suspect. But a fresh corpse is not the only abomination Thóra encounters here-for local legend says this place is haunted, and a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Aldens join Dr. Iris Perez as she travels to Iceland to look into the case of mysterious elves, investigating whether they are the cause of problems that are occurring on the island or if there is a natural explanation.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When one of the Thea Sisters' favorite mystery writers goes missing, the five mice travel to the author's native Iceland, where they reconstruct the dangerous plot of his latest novel in the icy terrain to piece together clues.
18) The wasteland
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Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Frettabladid DailyAfter a grueling solo expedition on Vatnajokull Glacier, Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg returns to civilization, barely alive, and into the care of Dr. Lassi. The doctor, suspicious of his story, attempts to discover his real motives for venturing into the treacherous wastelands of Iceland--but the secrets she unravels may be more dangerous than they're worth."--Publisher information.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Firts North American edition
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English
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their...
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