The Dark Iceland Series: ALL SIX books in Ragnar Jónasson's international, multi-million-copy bestselling Dark Iceland series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set!
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In the remote northern town of Siglufjörður, Icelandic police officer Ari Thór Arason is drawn into chilling murders and long-buried secrets that fracture a close-knit community.
'Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense' Ian Rankin
'A modern Icelandic take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery' Ann Cleeves
'Jónasson's books have breathed new life into Nordic noir' Sunday Express
'Ragnar Jónasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty' Peter James
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Snowblind (Book 1)
Ari Thór's first posting turns deadly when a young woman is found unconscious in the snow and a celebrated writer dies at the local theatre, while an avalanche cuts off the town.
Blackout (Book 2)
A man is brutally beaten on a summer night darkened by volcanic ash; Ari Thór and a young reporter uncover secrets someone is desperate to keep buried.
Rupture (Book 3)
A long-unsolved death on a deserted fjord resurfaces as a photograph raises new questions, and a missing child sparks panic in the quarantined town of Siglufjörður.
Whiteout (Book 4)
When a young woman is found dead below the cliffs of an abandoned village, Ari Thór uncovers a terrifying link to a mother and daughter's deaths decades earlier.
Nightblind (Book 5)
A police officer is murdered at point-blank range, and Ari Thór is pulled into tangled local rivalries and dark past crimes as the arctic winter deepens.
Winterkill (Book 6)
The death of a teenage girl on Siglufjörður's main street draws Ari Thór into his most dangerous case yet, as snow traps the town and even darker crimes come to light.
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'Traditional and beautifully finessed' Independent
'Outstanding ... consummate crime writing' Publishers Weekly
'Icelandic noir of the highest order' Daily Mail
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About the author
Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavík, and currently works as a lawyer, while teacher copyright law at the Reykjavík University Law School. In the past, he’s worked in TV and radio, including as a news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Before embarking on a writing career, Ragnar translated fourteen Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic, and has had several short stories published in German, English and Icelandic literary magazines. Ragnar set up the first overseas chapter of the CWA (Crime Writers’ Association) in Reykjavík, and is co-founder of the International crime-writing festival Iceland Noir. Ragnar’s debut thriller, Snowblind became an almost instant bestseller when it was published in June 2015 with Nightblind (winner of the Dead Good Reads Most Captivating Crime in Translation Award) and then Blackout, Rupture and Whiteout following soon after. To date, Ragnar Jónasson has written five novels in the Dark Iceland series, which has been optioned for TV by On the Corner. He lives in Reykjavík with his wife and two daughters.
Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the gap year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family, before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver, teacher, netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism, largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland ( Frozen Out, Cold Steal, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series.
