Thin Ice by Quentin Bates
How does Quentin Bates manage to do it all? Translate Ragnar Jonasson’s Icelandic crime series, organise the Iceland Noir festival, and produce on average one murder mystery a year. What’s more, all this productivity seems to be making his writing better and better: self-assured, witty, generating a…
Nightblind by Ragnar Jonasson
Translated by Quentin Bates — With its unique blend of a Golden Age-style mystery and a bleak, frozen Icelandic setting, Snowblind was one of our top five debuts of 2015. Just when you thought you’d seen it all in Scandinavian crime fiction, Orenda Books released a brand…
First look: Nightblind by Ragnar Jonasson
No sooner have we included Ragnar Jonasson’s novel Snowblind in our top five debuts of 2015, than its sequel has arrived. Nightblind is already available for Kindle, and comes out as a paperback on 15 January. Take a nice long look at this pocket-sized paperback with…
Win a signed copy of Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason
Saturday 22 August 2015 — Today only you can win a signed copy of Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason on our Facebook page. The draw ends at midnight Pacific time (US & Canada). This is a brilliant opportunity to own a Nordic noir collectible. Not only that,…
Interview: Arnaldur Indridason
Arnaldur Indridason’s excellent novel Strange Shores concluded with his main detective, Erlendur, out in the mountains of Eastern Iceland contemplating his own death and that of his younger brother who was lost in a blizzard when they were children. Though the ending is ambiguous, it does…
Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason
Translated by Victoria Cribb — Released in Iceland as Kamp Knox last November, Oblivion is the second of Arnaldur Indridason’s ‘young Erlendur‘ books. Similar to the way in which ITV gave us Endeavour – a look at Morse before he became a dour, old detective – here…