THE NAIL-BITING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR\n'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?' The Times\n'A world-class crime writer . . . One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times\n'It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction' The Times 
________\n'TEACHER WANTED ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD . . .'\nAfter her father's sudden, tragic suicide, Una spends her nights drinking alone in Reykjavik, stricken with thoughts that she might one day follow in his footsteps.\nSo when she sees an advert seeking a teacher for two girls in the tiny village of Skálar - population of ten - on the storm-battered north coast of the island, she sees it as a chance to escape.\nBut once she arrives, Una quickly realises nothing in city life has prepared her for this. The villagers are unfriendly. The weather is bleak. And, from the creaky attic bedroom of the old house where she's living, she's convinced she hears the ghostly sound of singing.\nUna worries that she's losing her mind.\nAnd then, just before midwinter, a young girl from the village is found dead. Now there are only nine villagers left.\nAnd Una fears that one of them has blood on their hands . . . 
________\n'An intensely gripping mystery, Ragnar Jonasson is a poet of the "dark, wet and cold", of the "gloom, cold and rain". The climactic revelations are credible and moving' The Times\n'Invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic Noir' Daily Mail\n'With his trademark elegant prose and atmospheric sense of place, Jonasson weaves a slow-burning, haunting tale with a chilling ending' Daily Record\n'A mist-shrouded blend of horror and psychological thriller . . . works in every way' Booklist\nPraise for Ragnar Jónasson\n'This is Icelandic noir of the highest order, with Jonasson's atmospheric sense of place, and his heroine's unerring humanity shining from every page' Daily Mail\n'Triumphant conclusion. Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense' Ian Rankin\n'This is such a tense, gripping read' Anthony Horowitz\n'Brilliantly effective. Each book enraptures us' The Times Literary Supplement\n'Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the great tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month\n'A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens. First rate and highly recommended' Lee Child\n'Chilling - a must-read' Peter James\n'A stunningly atmospheric story. Pitch-perfect, beautifully paced. Ragnar Jónasson is at the top of his game, and a master of the genre' Will Dean\n'Darkly claustrophobic . . . Perfect mid-winter reading' Ann Cleeves

The Girl Who Died: The Sunday Times bestseller that will take you to the edge of the world

Literature & Fiction

Jónasson, Ragnar

Genre Fiction

Michael, Joseph

Outside

The Mist (Hidden Iceland)

The Mist: Hidden Iceland Series, Book Three

Where: A quiet fishing village in northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. It is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel.
Who: Ari Thor is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. He has a past that he's unable to leave behind.
What: A young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed elderly writer falls to his death. Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life. 
Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts, while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness―blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose. 
Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from an extraordinary new talent.

Snowblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 1)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Minotaur Books

Chilling and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, an undeniable new talent.
Ari Thor Arason is a local policeman who has an uneasy relationship 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 waters closing in, it falls to Ari Thor to piece together a puzzle that involves a new mayor and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik. It becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all.

Nightblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 2)

Where: A quiet fishing village in northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. It is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel.
Who: Ari Thor is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. He has a past that he's unable to leave behind.
What: A young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed elderly writer falls to his death. Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life. 
Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts, while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness―blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose. 
Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from Ragnar Jonasson, an extraordinary new talent.

A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

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 into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. She knows which one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum ended on the dark, cold shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking.
Hulda will find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger.

The Darkness: A Thriller (The Hulda Series, 1)

Blackout: An Ari Thor Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 3)

A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer. "Easily the best yet. Beautifully written and elegantly paced with a plot that only gradually becomes visible, as if the reader had been staring into the freezing fog waiting for shapes to emerge."―The Guardian, UK (Readers' Books of the Year 2016)
"A chiller of a thriller whose style and pace are influenced by Jonasson’s admiration for Agatha Christie. It’s good enough to share shelf space with the works of Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Arnaldur Indridason, Iceland’s crime novel royalty."―The Washington Post Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing in the tradition of Agatha Christie, author Ragnar Jonasson’s books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex. Blackout, the latest Ari Thór thriller, delivers another dark mystery that is chillingly stunning with its complexity and fluidity.
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. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit. What secrets does the dead man harbour, and what is the young reporter hiding? As silent, unspoken horrors from the past threaten them all, and the darkness deepens, it's a race against time to find the killer before someone else dies.

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The Girl Who Died: The Sunday Times bestseller that will take you to the edge of the world

Outside

The Mist (Hidden Iceland)

The Mist: Hidden Iceland Series, Book Three

Snowblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 1)

Nightblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 2)

Snowblind: A Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 1)

The Darkness: A Thriller (The Hulda Series, 1)

Blackout: An Ari Thor Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 3)

Blackout: An Ari Thor Thriller (The Dark Iceland Series, 3)