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Reykjavík
Ragnar Jónasson
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Description for Reykjavík
Paperback.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BESTSELLING THRILLER WRITER AND A PRIME MINISTER WRITE A MYSTERY TOGETHER? THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT . . .
'A beautifully constructed mystery by two super smart partners in crime' ANTHONY HOROWITZ
'Nordic noir at its most authoritative' FINANCIAL TIMES
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What happened to Lara Marteinsdóttir?
Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lára spends the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík.
In early August, the girl disappears without a trace.
The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved case. What happened to ... Read morethe young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?
Thirty years later in August, 1986, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lara's case. But as he draws closer to discovering the secret, and with the eyes of Reykjavík upon him, it soon becomes clear that Lara's disappearance is a mystery that someone will stop at nothing to keep unsolved . . .
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Penguin Books Ltd
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Ragnar Jónasson
Ragnar Jónasson is an international number one bestselling author who has sold over three million books in thirty-four countries worldwide. He was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, where he also works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at Reykjavík University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter for the Icelandic National ... Read moreBroadcasting Service, and, from the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie's novels. His critically acclaimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major TV series, and Ridley Scott will be producing Outside as a feature film. KATRÍN JAKOBSDÓTTIR has been Prime Minster of Iceland since 2017. Katrín has been a member of the Icelandic Parliament since 2007 but before that she worked in publishing and education. She served as the minister for education, research and culture from 2009 to 2013. She lives with her husband and three sons in Reykjavík. Hailing from a family of prominent Icelandic poets and academics, she wrote her Master's dissertation on Icelandic crime writing. She and Jónasson are long-time friends, who first worked together nearly ten years ago as part of the jury for an award for best crime fiction in translation in Iceland. Show Less
Reviews for Reykjavík
A classic crime novel, its noir at its finest
The Sunday Times
Nordic noir at its most authoritative.
Financial Times
A crime novel with a difference
Guardian
Seamlessly plotted, with terrific characters and plenty of surprising, earned twists. Jonasson and Jakobsdottir, demonstrate with understated brilliance how the truth rises to the surface, no matter ... Read morehow ugly it is or how powerful the players are.
The New York Times
A classic. As tense as anything Jonasson has previously written
Sunday Times
A beautifully constructed mystery by two super smart partners in crime
ANTHONY HOROWITZ A slow-burning, spellbinding whodunit. Agatha Christie, to whom it's dedicated, would be proud
Kirkus
I read all 349 pages in one go and enjoyed every second . . . A gripping story . . . extremely well written . . . superbly plotted . . . The twist at the halfway point of the book hits the reader like a wave of the ice cold Atlantic Ocean. One reader at my home was almost in shock. It is an art to create such a deep connection with fictional characters. Even though the story is first and foremost entertaining, it also serves as the mirror of a nation and has many layers
Fréttablaðið Newspaper
Loved it!
Ann Cleeves
Brilliant. Very exciting, great fun, good characterization, and the atmosphere of the 80s is described in an enjoyable way. One of the best crime novels I've read in a long time
Gisli Marteinn Baldursson Very good, there's a twist in the middle that will startle you
Boston Globe
Flawless. The authors play with conventions, such as unprotected females investigating dark places quite safely. Or an abrupt change in protagonists at mid-point, accomplished effortlessly.
Sydney Morning Herald
Praise for Ragnar Jónasson
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Jónasson is a connoisseur of 'unrelenting darkness'; the atmosphere of paranoid claustrophobia [Jónasson] creates is so intense you can't help gripping the book as tightly as possible
The Times
A superb page-turner . . . breathes fresh and unsettling life into the classic locked room mystery
Kevin Wignall
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Stunningly original . . . Tense. Very tense.
Michael Ridpath
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Jónasson's twisting, elegantly crafted story will keep you hooked till the very last page
William Ryan
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Ragnar Jónasson is so skilled in depicting the environment where the story takes place, it becomes one of the characters. It is so atmospheric, I am immediately transported to the Icelandic moors, feeling the cold all the way to the bones. I read with bated breath, my heart pounding with the looming knowledge that soon something bad is about to happen
Sara Blædel
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Jonasson offers an intense standalone, taking to new heights his unrivalled skill for using winter as an unpredictable plot-twister . . . There is so much to like here: the complexity of the quartet's relationships, Jonasson's powerful, streamlined writing, and the parallels between an unforgiving setting and the characters' seething grudges. Readers will be drawn into Jonasson's forbidding Iceland landscape, where it's anyone's guess who will make it out alive
Booklist
Entertaining, suspenseful and twisty. Overall, highly recommended for fans of Ragnar Jonasson and suspense thrillers in general
Mystery Tribune
Chilling thriller by the king of Icelandic noir . . . so gripping I can't put it down
Fiona Cummings
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A shivery delight
Kirkus Reviews
Jónasson's spare prose and brisk pacing make for an immersive read . . . Outside is an intriguing study of isolation, claustrophobia and the particular menace to be found in beautiful yet unforgiving terrain
Private Eye
Jonasson is a master at two aspects of Icelandic noir: one is the description of his country's withering weather; the other is the handling of murderous plots that are tangled beyond all expectations. He's in top form in both specialties this time out
Toronto Star
Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today
Lee Child
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Triumphant . . . Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense
Ian Rankin
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Dark, chilling and utterly gripping
Shari Lapena
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Such a tense, gripping read
Anthony Horowitz A world-class crime writer. One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction.
The Sunday Times
A master of the Icelandic thriller.
New York Post
A compelling voice in crime fiction
Clare Mackintosh
Mysterious, tense and deeply atmospheric
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