Book two in the Children’s House series sees Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurardottir at her chilling best. Not for the faint hearted, this is Scandi Noir at its finest. When a time capsule is dug up at a local school after ten years it contains a very creepy note written by […]
Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police has always found herself a bit out of step with the predominantly male dominated force that she works in. Things have been a little fraught lately and when Hulda is suddenly forced into early retirement she manages to negotiate herself an extra […]
To celebrate the paperback launch of this amazing book I’m really pleased to be launching the blog tour for The Legacy today. It is always good to discover that there is a new book from Yrsa Sigurdardottir and it’s even better when you realise that it is the first in […]
It is always good to discover that there is a new book from Yrsa Sigurdardottir and it’s even better when you realise that it is the first in a new series. The Children’s House works with traumatised young people advising the police on how best to question and approach them […]
It is kind of ironic that since mid-June this year, earthquake activity within the caldera of the mighty ice-covered Katla volcano has increased above background levels. This book is set in Reykjavik in 1918. The days are darker than usual and the sky is full of volcanic dust. It is […]
UK Publication Date: 3 Mar 2016. 288 pages. Thin Ice is the fifth book in the Icelandic detective series featuring Officer Gunnhildur although it does work quite well as a standalone story if you haven’t read any of the others. This was my first Quentin Bates book and I’ll definitely […]
UK Publishing Date: 27 Feb 2014. 433 pages Silence of the Sea is book number six in the Thora Guðmundsdóttir series of Icelandic crime mysteries. While it can be read as a standalone book I thoroughly recommend that you read the others in the series first as it adds so […]
UK Publishing Date: 9 Jul 2015. 354 pages. Oblivion is the second English translated book in the young Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason. Set about five years after Reykjavik Nights our detective is now divorced and estranged from his young family. His desire to investigate missing people is growing as […]
UK Publishing Date: 9 Jul 2015. 304 pages. There has been a fashion recently for revisiting the lives of our favourite detectives at an early point in their career. Successful television adaptations of Endeavour (early Inspector Morse) and Young Montalbano have proved that there is an appetite for this type […]
