Michael Ridpath

Rural Scotland, 1999. Alastair, a doctor in his 80s who lives alone by a loch, wakes up in hospital having fallen and hit his head, inducing almost total amnesia. Lacking family, friends, or knowledge of himself, Clemence, his sole contact's great-niece, is called in to take care of him. Retreating to Alastair's remote cottage to help him recuperate, Clemence finds a peculiar manuscript. The first line shocks her to the core: 'It was a warm, still...

Iceland, 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern Iceland, Magnus Jonson, newly returned to the Reykjavik police force, is called in to investigate. At the scene, he finds a stunned TV crew, there to film a documentary on the life of the legendary Viking, Gudrid the Wanderer. The documentary experts have unearthed controversial evidence that Christopher Columbus knew more about the existence of America...

Conrad de Lancey is a young Englishman who, disillusioned by his experiences fighting with the International Brigade in Spain against Franco, moves to Berlin - his mother's native country - to become a writer. But it is 1938 and Hitler's Germany isn't the right place for a writer to find peace. Following the death of his cousin Joachim at the hands of the SS, Conrad meets up with Theo von Hertenberg, a university friend from their years together at...

Amid Iceland's rugged landscape, rumours swirl of an ancient manuscript containing a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. The ring exists - but is it worth killing for? It's up to homicide detective Magnus Jonson to find out why.

Freeflow, a group of Internet activists committed to the freedom of information, have chosen Iceland as their HQ while they prepare to unleash their greatest coup on the world's media. Minutes later, amidst the steam and mist of an erupting volcano, one of them is murdered. Magnus Jonson has a long list of suspects.