Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-09607-4
The 2008 financial crash provides the backdrop for Jónasson’s sterling debut, a tale of past and present revenge, which combines the power of extreme climate and geography with penetrating psychological analysis. Ari Thór Arason, a 24-year-old...
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates. Minotaur, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-09609-8
Set five years after the action of Snowblind, Jónasson’s excellent second thriller featuring Ari Thór Arason to be published in the U.S. finds Ari Thór passed over for the position of inspector in the small Icelandic town of Siglufjördur, a setback...
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates. Minotaur, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-17105-4
Jónasson’s captivating third Ari Thór Arason whodunit to be translated into English (after 2017’s Nightblind) finds Ari Thór, a policeman in the small Icelandic town of Siglufjördur, troubled by his recent breakup with the woman he once considered...
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Minotaur, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-17103-0
Reykjavík Det. Insp. Hulda Hermannsdóttir, the 64-year-old heroine of this outstanding series debut from Jónasson (Blackout), is aware that she’s nearing mandatory retirement, but she’s still devastated when her boss, Magnus, tells her to prepare to
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates. Minotaur, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-19334-6
When a foreign visitor to Siglufjördur, Iceland, dies of a highly infectious disease that he must have picked up on a trip to Africa, the town is quarantined, in Jónasson’s gripping fourth crime novel featuring policeman Ari Thór Arason (after 2018’s
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Minotaur, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-19337-7
Jónasson’s masterly sequel to 2018’s The Darkness opens with a cryptic prologue set in a town just south of Reykjavík in 1988. A seven-year-old girl puzzles her parents after they return home one night by saying that both of her babysitters were...
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-76811-7
Isolation and despair undo the characters in Jónasson’s exceptional third and final novel featuring Reykjavík Det. Insp. Hulda Hermannsdóttir (after 2019’s The Island). In February 1988, Hulda, who has returned to work after time off to deal with an
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Minotaur, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-79373-7
In this unsettling standalone set in the mid-1980s from Jónasson (the Dark Iceland series), Reykjavík substitute teacher Una, who’s ready for a change of scene, accepts an opportunity to teach in the remote fishing village of Skálar, which has only...
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Minotaur, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-83345-7
In this disappointing standalone from Jónasson (The Girl Who Died), Daníel, a struggling actor living in London, travels to Reykjavík to join three friends for a reunion: Helena, an engineer; Ármann, an entrepreneurial tour guide; and Gunnlaugur, a...
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Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the French by David Warriner. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-913193-46-1
The discovery of a young woman’s body on the main street of the remote town of Siglufjörður propels Jónasson’s outstanding final Dark Iceland mystery featuring police inspector Ari Thór Arason (after 2019’s Rupture). The victim, later identified as...
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Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir, trans. from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Minotaur, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-90733-2
Jónasson, a translator of Agatha Christie mysteries, teams up with Icelandic prime minister Jakobsdóttir for a thrilling Scandinavian noir inspired by a real-life cold case. In 1956, a 15-year-old housemaid named Lára vanishes from the only...
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