Ragnar Jonasson
1) The darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
After being unceremoniously forced into early retirement at the age of 64, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police is refusing to go quietly. Hulda is told to pick a cold case to investigate for two more weeks, and then she must pack up her desk. She knows just the one. A young woman found dead on the seaweed-covered rocks of the Vatnsleysustrond who was waiting to be granted asylum. Her death was ruled a suicide after a slapdash...
2) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Description
When the body of a 19-year-old girl is found on the main street, Police Inspector Ari Thor battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer.
3) The mist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Description
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.
4) Reykjavik
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2023
Description
What happened to Lara? Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lara spends the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavik. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later in August, 1986, as the city of Reykjavik celebrates...
5) The island
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Ellidaey is an isolated island off the coast of Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish. 'The Island' is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson's 'Hidden Iceland' trilogy. This time Hulda is at the peak of her career and is sent to investigate what happened on Ellidaey after a group of friends visited but one failed to return. Could this have links to the murder of a young woman ten years previously...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Una knows she is struggling to deal with her father's sudden, tragic suicide. She spends her nights drinking alone in Reykjavik, stricken with thoughts that she might one day follow in his footsteps. So when she sees an advert seeking a teacher for two girls in the tiny village of Skalar - population of ten - on the storm-battered north coast of the island, she sees it as a chance to escape. But once she arrives, Una quickly realises nothing in city...
7) Outside
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2022
Description
When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge. It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating with the outside world. They are isolated - but they are not alone. As the night darkens, and fears intensify, an old tragedy gradually surfaces - one that forever changed the course of their friendship. Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends...
8) Snowblind
Author
Publisher
Orenda
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In a quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, rookie cop Ari Thor Arason is being drawn into a series of suspicious accidents and deaths. As his investigation becomes increasingly personal and complex, Ari's past may be closer than he thinks.
9) Whiteout
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier. As the...
10) Nightblind
Author
Publisher
Orenda
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The peace of a close-knit Icelandic community is shattered by the murder of a policeman - shot 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 tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik where someone is being held against their will.
11) Black out
Author
Publisher
Orenda
Pub. Date
2016
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, The Akureyri Sanatorium now sits haunted by the ghosts of its past. But a single wing remains open and houses six employees: the caretaker, two doctors, two nurses and a young research assistant. When one of the nurses, Yrsa, is found brutally murdered, a series of terrifying events are set in motion.With only six suspects, how has the trail run dry? Two decades later, the mystery remains unsolved....
13) Rupture
Author
Publisher
Orenda
Pub. Date
2017
Description
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 in never solved. Fifty years later, an old photogrpah comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couple may not have been alone on the fjord after all.