I've never felt more connected to a setting before in a story. This fabulous book was like a stimulating blast of icy fresh air, dark, chilling and so atmospheric. As dark secrets and the sinister history of the village and lighthouse are unveiled, the detectives must race against the clock to find the killer, but will they be able stop further tragedies? Did she jump or did something more sinister take place? Detective Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's younger sister and mother also died in the same spot, 25 years earlier. Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead at the bottom of some cliffs of a deserted Icelandic village. I loved it, loved it and LOVED IT some more! What have I been missing out on!? "White Out" is my first venture into the impressive 'Dark Iceland' series by Ragnar Jonasson and I can't believe I have been missing such a fantastic set of stories. He has appeared on festival panels worldwide, and lives in Reykjavik. Ragnar has also had short stories published internationally, including in the distinguished Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the US, the first stories by an Icelandic author in that magazine. He is also the co-founder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir.įrom the age of 17, Ragnar translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. He also teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University and has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV-news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Ragnar was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he works as a writer and a lawyer. Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Portugal, Croatia, Armenia and Iceland. Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK. Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France. His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.
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