Victoria Cribb
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and get her life back on track. But Skálar...
3) Outside
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . . 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....
Author
Series
Children's House volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick her up, her mother has forgotten to give her this week's pocket money, and the school is already locked for the day. Grownups, she decides, are useless. With no way to call home, she resigns herself to waiting on the steps until her father remembers her. When a girl approaches, Vaka recognizes her immediately from class, and...
Author
Series
Reykjavik wartime mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT A 90-year-old man...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjn̤'s specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjn̤'s most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. Mǹi Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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 more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?...
8) The Legacy
Author
Series
Children's House volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardottir comes a thrilling and unique audiobook seriesThe Legacy is the first installment in a stunning new audiobook series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel.The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she's not talking.The...
Author
Series
Inspector Erlendur Novel volume 8
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Arnaldur Indridason has been crime writing's best-kept secret ... until now. A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his baseball-loving colleague Sigurdur Oli is in the spotlight. A school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli dissatisfied...
10) The island
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 to an old hunting lodge in Ellidaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir is determined to find the truth in the darkness"--NoveList...
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When a [homeless man] he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city"--amazon.com.
Author
Series
Children's House volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, 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 for her expertise with traumatized young people.
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A luxury yacht crashes into a Rykjavike pier. But the boat is empty; no one is on board. What has happened to the crew? And what has happened to the family who were very much present when the yacht left Lisbon? What should Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, the series sleuth, make of the rumors that the vessel was cursed? She is spooked even more when she boards the yacht and thinks she sees one of the missing children. Where is Karitas, the glamorous young...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A man is found murdered in a small apartment in ReykjavÃk, 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 FlÃçvent 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"--
15) Hypothermia
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Unofficially investigating a suspicious suicide, Inspector Erlendur becomes increasingly unsettled by the unsolved cases of two young people who went missing decades earlier under circumstances tied to his own past.
16) The absolution
Author
Series
Children's House volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Absolution is the third installment in Queen of Icelandic crime fiction Yrsa Sigurdardóttir's series about the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. 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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales his fellow shipmates with tales of the Golden Fleece.
Author
Series
An Inspector Erlendur novel volume 11
Publisher
Picador, Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A follow-up to prequel Reykjavik Nights continues the story of young 1970s detective Erlendur as he works for the shadowy Marion Briem and investigates the case of a man who may have been thrown from an airplane and the cold case disappearance of a young girl." --
19) Why did you lie?
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests seemingly missing. Four strangers struggle to find shelter on a windswept spike of rock in the middle of a raging sea. They have one thing in common: they all lied. And someone is determined to punish them.... Why Did You Lie? is a terrifying tale of long-delayed retribution from Iceland's...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When her brother goes missing after contacting her from the site of an Icelandic rescue mission, Kristin is pursued by vigilantes from the U.S. Army and discovers a conspiracy involving a crashed World War II plane and the fate of its survivors.