Best Novels Set In Iceland - May 2024

Arctic Chill: An Inspector Erlendur Novel (An Inspector Erlendur Series)

INSPECTOR ERLENDUR RETURNS IN THIS ICY, INTENSE REYKJAVIK THRILLEROn an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of apartments where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland's outwardly liberal, multicultural society. Meanwhile, the boy's murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Master crime writer Arnaldur Indridason's Arctic Chill renders a vivid portrait of Iceland's ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312655304
• ASIN: 0312655304
• ISBN: 9780312655303
• Manufacturer: Picador

Voice of the Violin (The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Book 4)

• ASIN: B001R9DI84
• ASIN: B001R9DI84
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel

Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has... [Read More]

• ASIN: 037571894X
• ASIN: 037571894X
• ISBN: 037571894X
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Girl in the Ice (Konrad Simonsen Thriller)

Under the heartless vault of Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her.When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific murder and he sees how she was attacked, it triggers a dark memory and he realizes this was not the killer's only victim. As Simonsen's team works to discover evidence that has long since been buried, they unearth truths that certain people would pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0179LFYM6
• ASIN: B0179LFYM6
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

The Murder Bag (DC Max Wolfe)

The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this.      Twenty years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London's West End Central, 27 Savile Row. Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0099591057
• ASIN: 0099591057
• ISBN: 0099591057
• Brand: ARROW
• Manufacturer: Century

Sea of Stone (Magnus Iceland Mystery Book 4)

Can Magnus prove he is innocent of murder without implicating his brother? And can both men get to the heart of the twisted secrets that blighted their childhoods?Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarhöfn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, both brothers had to endure brutal violence at the hands of their grandfather. Now, two decades later, the past has returned to haunt them. When Constable Páll Gylfason gets a dispatch call to investigate a suspected homicide in a remote farmstead, he is surprised to fin... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00MLDE564
• ASIN: B00MLDE564
• Manufacturer: Corvus

Deadly Camargue: A Provence Mystery (Roger Blanc Book 2)

International Dagger Award shortlisted author Cay Rademacher delivers a captivating follow-up to his atmospheric Murderous Mistral with Deadly Camargue. August: the air over Provence shimmers in suffocating heat. Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleague Marius Tonon are called to the Camargue. A black fighting bull has escaped from the pasture and has gored a cyclist. A bizarre accident, or so it initially seems. Until Blanc discovers evidence that someone left the gate open intentionally…The deceased is Albert Cohen, political magazine reporter, fashion intellectual from Paris, TV personalit... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079DWTVYZ
• ASIN: B079DWTVYZ
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Reykjavik Nights: An Inspector Erlendur Novel (An Inspector Erlendur Series)

In this stunning prequel to his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, Arnaldur Indridason gives devoted fans 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.The writer whose work The New York Times describes as "having the sweep and consequence of epic... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00O0FZ7RC
• ASIN: B00O0FZ7RC
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Into Oblivion: An Icelandic Thriller (An Inspector Erlendur Series Book 11)

Loyal readers of Arnaldur Indridason's Erlendur series will be thrilled by Into Oblivion, the mesmerizing follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights. Here devoted fans will get another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective, while also absorbing plenty about Iceland and what makes the place tick. It’s 1979. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B011I2MQ1Y
• ASIN: B011I2MQ1Y
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)

Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fictionWith their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupli... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140447407
• ASIN: 0140447407
• ISBN: 0140447407
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Dog Boy: A Novel

• ASIN: B0030CVR8E
• ASIN: B0030CVR8E
• ISBN: 1616648163
• Manufacturer: Viking

The Story of Grettir the Strong (Classic Reprint)

Icelandic sagas there are two which, from their human interest and literary perfection, deserve to be classed with world-literature. The first of these is theN jals Saga, the second the Grettir sS aga; both of them have been in English form for about forty years, but because the translations faithfully followed the originals they never became popular, especially since this branch of literature, of great importance in illustrating the development of the northern races, has in our schools been neglected in favor of the poetry and mythology of the Greeks andR(Typographical errors above are due to... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008KF6QPA
• ASIN: B008KF6QPA
• Manufacturer: Forgotten Books

The Shadow Killer: A Thriller (The Flovent and Thorson Thrillers Book 2)

The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, following The Shadow District."Indridason is an international literary phenom." –Harlan Coben "Puts Iceland on the map as a major destination for enthusiasts of Nordic crime fiction." –Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review"One of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation."–The London Sunday Times"No wonder Arnaldur Indridason won so many awards. He's a great storyteller, and American readers will overwhelmingly agree." –C.J. BoxA m... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076PKVWS5
• ASIN: B076PKVWS5
• Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

The Sea

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel — amon... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400097029
• ASIN: 1400097029
• ISBN: 1400097029
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage International

The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils (Everyman's Library)

The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and  Proustian in detail  but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. In The Towers of Silence, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307263975
• ASIN: 0307263975
• ISBN: 0307263975
• Brand: Scott, Paul
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

The Best of Archie Comics 1-3 Boxed Set

9781619889989

• UPC: 29268246
• Rating: 5.0

The Kitchen Witch: Box Set: Books 7-9 - eBook

Witch Cozy MysteriesBooks 7 - 9 in The Kitchen Witch SeriesBook 7. SpellcheckAustralian witch, Amelia Spelled, has had her fill of murders, but this one takes the cake. Her boyfriend, Alder, has been battered in

• UPC: 696766402
• Rating: 5.0

The Best of Eva Hore Box Set - eBook

Hot and horny women find love, longing, and lust in this collection of intense lesbian erotica by multi-published author Eva Hore. From solo masturbation fantasies to reconnecting with old flames to torrid threesomes, there's something

• UPC: 133848016

Best of Gloria Silk Boxset - eBook

Read for Free Two Full Destiny Books: 'First and Only Destiny' and 'Second Destiny' and get the first 10 chapters of the USA Today Bestseller 'From Geek to Greek Billionaire', too.FIRST AND ONLY DESTINY: First

• UPC: 999249344

Best of Gloria Silk Books Boxset - eBook

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Gloria SilkRead for Free Two Full Destiny Books: 'First and Only Destiny' and 'Second Destiny' and get the first 10 chapters of the USA Today Bestseller 'From Geek to Greek

• UPC: 717150580

Billionaire's Best Woman Box Set - eBook

On paper, Parker's life is amazing. His tech company is worth billions, he works just a few hours a day, calls the Florida Keys home, and has a smoking hot girlfriend. His best friend, Sienna,

• UPC: 366232454

Best of Rabindranath Tagore box set - eBook

This is a special edition of the collection of works by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It showcases some of the best stories and verses written by Tagore in a commemorative edition.Best Of Rabindranath Tagore (Set

• UPC: 471422619

Best Friends to Lovers Box Set Vol. 1-3 - eBook

**The series so hot it'll melt your e-reader is now a bundle! **Save on Best Friends to Lovers MMF Bisexual Ménage Box Set (Volumes I, II & III). Volume I: Seduced by 2Maya learns that best friends

• UPC: 226200989

Best Friends to Lovers Box Set Vol. 4-6 - eBook

BEST FRIENDS TO LOVERS (MMF Bisexual Ménage Romace series)This Box Set contain Volumes IV, V & VI. This series is so hot that the first volume spent more than 6 months in the #1 position

• UPC: 283999405

Best Of A Decade: Pack Mentality (Box Set) - eBook

Four novellas of werewolves and lovers by Julia Talbot!Alpha Bites (Pack Mentality 1) Sasha, the dark-eyed Russian, or Liam, the red-headed Irishman -- Jenny just can’t choose. They’re both amazing lovers. They’re also both strong

• UPC: 753238285