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Author
Series
Publisher
Harvill Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
278 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Silence of the Grave, a corpse is found on a hill outside the city, and Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson and his team think the body may have been buried for some years." "While Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, slowly but surely he finds out the truth about another unhappy family. Few people are still alive who can tell the tale, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever....
2) Snowblind
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Siglufjorur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors -- accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater,...
3) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
225 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he's separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets in ReykjavIk is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband... And an unexplained death. When a tramp 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. - Features the young Erlendur: ReykjavIk...
5) Voices
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st US ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At a grand Reykjavik hotel, the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children's party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusive murder investigation are not what he needs. As Detective Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel,...
7) Hypothermia
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson finds himself following a very unusual trail of forensic evidence when he sets out to investigate the murder of an elderly man found dead in his Reykjavik apartment who was, many years earlier, implicated in a crime that remains unsolved.
10) Strange shores
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[B]egins when a young woman disappears from the frozen fjords of Iceland. In her wake, this woman has left a tempest of lies, betrayal and revenge. Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for the missing woman but also for his long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snowstorm when they were children has coloured his entire life. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets. But as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A glimpse of Erlendur as a young, budding detective. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband. And an unexplained death. When a tramp 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" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavík, 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 Flóvent 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." --
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
14) Codex 1962
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sj©đns epic three-part masterpiece, weaving together ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths, CoDex 1962 encompasses genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, Fortean studies, genetics, and the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling" --
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Based on a true story, the author humorously recounts the time his grandfather got stranded with a friend on Surtsey, a brand new volcanic island in Iceland. The adventurers face epic challenges like molten lava, melted eyeglasses and scant supplies before finally getting rescued. Graphic novel-like layouts and spirited text invite readers to search for the one thing that's not actually true in this thrilling yet light-hearted tale of adventure....
16) Salka Valka
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Physical Desc
624 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a winter night, an eleven-year-old Salvör and her unmarried mother Sigurlína disembark at the remote, run-down fishing village of Óseyri, where life is "lived in fish and consists of fish." The two struggle to make their way amidst the rough, salt-worn men of the town. After Sigurlína's untimely death, Salvör pays for her funeral and walks home alone, precipitating her coming of age as a daring, strong-willed young woman who chops off her...
17) Hotel silence
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely handyman discovers new meaning in his life when he visits a dilapidated hotel in a war-torn country.
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 05
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
215 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Icelandic
Description
In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth takes over his life and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. Combining classic thriller tropes...
20) Woman at war
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Icelandic
Description
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias 'The Woman of the Mountain,' Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry.
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