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Stories Set in Reykjavík
Reykjavik is the world's northernmost capital, a town of colorful tin houses heated by volcanoes. With a pool on every corner and crime fiction in every bookshop, its inspectors walk the streets in print and on screen. Silence of the Grave dug here; Journey to the Center of the Earth descended offshore. Open Reykjavik on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Part history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are…
Silence of the Grave
Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and…
مخزن الأعضاء البشرية
تدور أحداث الرواية في إيسلندا اليوم وبالتحديد في العاصمة ريكيافيك بكل تفاصيلها الخفية، إذ تُظهر الرواية الوجه الآخر للنموذج الاسكندنافي وروائح الجريمة والمافيات المستترة في مغامرة بوليسية، أجاد الروائي رسم تحركات…
Iceberg
Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice-the charred remains of a long missing luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous. The only clue to the ship's priceless-and missing-cargo: nine ornately…
The Draining Lake
Original cover edition; asin:B009Y31TBIWhat would you do if you had two hot men fight over you? Sienna Richards decided to study and pursue her dreams in London. Life was starting to look up when out of nowhere, her…
Das glühende Grab
Auf den isländischen Westmännerinseln werden bei Ausgrabungen im Sommer 2007 drei Leichen und ein abgetrennter Kopf gefunden. Sie liegen im Keller des Elternhauses von Markús Magnússon, das bei einem Vulkanausbruch vor…
Flood
It begins in 2016. Another wet summer, another year of storm surges and high tides. But this time the Thames Barrier is breached and central London is swamped. The waters recede, life goes on, the economy begins to…
Angels of the Universe
Born on the day Iceland joined NATO, this novel's unstable narrator worries this and other incidental phenomena into a highly complex, hilarious, and tragic cosmology. More interested in David Bowie and the Beatles than…
Fluga á vegg
Skrautlegar persónur, tíðarandi, viðburðir, vinir, óvinir, myndir sem greipast í hugann. Fluga á vegg lýsir uppvaxtarárum ungs drengs í Vesturbæ Reykjavíkur um miðja síðustu öld. Eins og við er að búast frá hendi Ólafs…
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