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Cold as Hell by Lilja Sigardardóttir

By Paul Burke

16 September, 2021

Translated by Quentin Bates — Multi-award winning Icelandic author and playwright Lilja Sigardardóttir really grabbed our attention with her Reykjavik Noir trilogy. Snare, Trap and Cage are perfectly encapsulated noir stories about ordinary people caught up in the underbelly of Icelandic society. Yet when you…

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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 November, 2020

Translated by Quentin Bates — With her new standalone novel, Betrayal, Icelandic crime author Lilja Sigurdardottir returns to themes such as misogyny and abuse. What’s new is that the backdrop is not the world of drug trafficking as it was in books like Snare and…

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NTN: Lilja Sigurdardottir interviewed

By crimefictionlover

9 November, 2017

Icelandic author Lilja Sigurdardottir has been on our radar since Iceland Noir 2014, when she was part of a twilight literary tour around Reykjavik and read from her work in the square outside the Icelandic parliament. At the time we hoped her books would appear…

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On the Radar - A love like blood

By crimefictionlover

30 September, 2022

Whenever the theme of love intersects with crime fiction, not only will hearts be broken but blood will be spilled. And so it is this week in our news column as we bring you a fairytale wedding gone wrong with Alex Pine, a kidnapped wife…

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Icelandic crime show Sisterhood comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

16 September, 2022

Nordic crime fiction returns to Walter Presents today with the box set of the Icelandic crime drama Sisterhood now available to stream! Not so much a mystery, this is a show that looks at dark secrets from the past and what happens when they resurface…

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The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

10 August, 2022

Throughout her career, South African crime author and journalist Margie Orford has dealt extensively with the way trauma manifests itself in countries with a turbulent political history such as South Africa and Namibia. She’s particularly interested in how it permeates the social structure, often culminating…

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Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

23 November, 2021

In our first ever – and hopefully annual – Crime Fiction Lover Awards, we bring you our shortlist for the Best Crime Novel in Translation for 2021. Have you read any of them? Which one is best? Have your say by voting via our online…

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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2021: The shortlists

By crimefictionlover

17 November, 2021

First of all, thank you to everyone who made nominations for our first ever Crime Fiction Lover Awards. Your participation is one of the things that makes these awards unique and exciting. Now, let’s get down to business! We had a huge response during the…

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Cold as Hell by Lilja Sigardardóttir

Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

NTN: Lilja Sigurdardottir interviewed

On the Radar - A love like blood

Icelandic crime show Sisterhood comes to Walter Presents

The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford

Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2021: The shortlists

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