Set in Iceland -- Mysteries and More ...
Arnaldur Indriðason
Erlendur Sveinsson Series: (Mystery)
Jar City - A Reykjavík Thriller (#1)
Silence of the Grave (#2)
Voices (#3)
The Draining Lake (#4)
Arctic Chill (#5)
Hypothermia (#6)
Outrage (#7) [with Erlendur on leave, Elinborg takes center stage]
Black Skies (#8)
Strange Shores (#9; coming August 2014)
Operation Napoleon Book
Historical thriller about a crashed WWII German plane.
Bates, Quentin
Gunnhildur Gislasdottir Series (Mystery)
Frozen Assets (#1)
Cold Comfort (#2)
Chilled to the Bone (#3)
Bergsveinn Birgisson
Reply to A Letter From Helga (Fiction)
Icelandic farmer looks back on his life and why he didn’t respond to a love letter long ago
Brown, Nancy Marie
The Far Traveler - Voyages of A Viking Woman. 921 GUD
Offers a dramatic reconstruction of the life and times of Gudrid, a Viking woman who, according to Icelandic sagas, arrived in the New World, spent three years there, and gave birth to a baby, before sailing home some five hundred years before Columbus, drawing on the latest archaeological data, scientific research, and cutting-edge technology to trace her odyssey.
Kent, Hannah
Burial Rites - A Novel
Based on a true story, tells the tale of a young woman in Iceland in 1829 who was accused of murder and sent to an isolated farm to await execution and tells the farmer's family her side of the story.
Long, Dustin
Icelander (Mystery)
A satirical crime tale follows the story of Our Heroine, a daughter of a dead legendary mystery-solver, who reluctantly takes up the investigation of her murdered close friend through the sewers and karaoke bars of Iceland, all the while endeavoring to remain out of the clutches of the inhuman Refusirkir.
Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
The Journey Home (Fiction)
Discovering that she is terminally ill, Disa leaves England to return to her native Iceland, where she hopes to come to terms with the painful events of her past: her fiance's death by the Nazi's and her mother's rejection.
Sjón
The Blue Fox Book (Fiction)
An elusive fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest, while a naturalist endeavors to build a life for a young woman with Down syndrome whom he rescued from a shipwreck years earlier.
From the Mouth of the Whale (Fiction)
In the chilling aftermath of Iceland's Lutheran Reformation in 1635, Jonas Palmason - a poet, naturalist and self-taught healer - has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct. Based on the historical figure Jon Gudmundsson,
The Whispering Muse (Fiction)
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.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels -- Attorney Thora travels throughout Iceland on behalf of her clients.
Last Rituals - A Tale of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder (#1)
My Soul to Take (#2)
Ashes to Dust (#3)
The Day Is Dark (#4)
