The Quick

A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the...

A missing woman. A missing boy. Detective Erlendur returns - for the last time

A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of...

The Living

Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.

After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more...

Reykjavik, Saturday night

He offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into...

Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave.

Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and...

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death...

A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing;...

A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a...

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat.

A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left...

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a...