Icelandic Thrilles

On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it. The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible.

A chilling note predicting the deaths of six people is found in a school's time capsule, 10 years after it was buried. But surely, if a 13-year-old wrote it, it can't be a real threat.... Detective Huldar suspects he's been given the investigation simply to keep him away from real police work. He turns to psychologist Freyja to help understand the child who hid the message. Soon, however, they find themselves at the heart of another shocking case.

The first the police know of the crime is when clips are sent from the victim's Snapchat account, showing her begging for forgiveness. The CCTV at the cinema where she was working show her being dragged into the night by a masked killer. When the body is found, it is marked with a number 2...Detective Huldar joins the murder investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help question the murdered teenager's friends. Soon, they uncover that Stella was far from the angel people claim: a relentless bully, she made life miserable for those around her.

The Icelandic nation has a long and rich history of storytelling. Throughout centuries characterized by hardship, poverty, and dark winters, the Icelanders kept their spirits high and moral values intact by telling each other stories. In this collection of 15 Icelandic folk legends, we get a glimpse of the world view of the Icelanders in centuries past as they endeavored to understand and cope with the natural phenomena around them. There are stories of malicious ghosts, outlaws living in carved-out boulders, hidden people residing in grassy knolls...

The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice.

Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realises that her sister isn’t avoiding her...she has disappeared. As she confronts Ísafold’s abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Björn, and begins to probe her sister’s reclusive neighbours, Áróra is led into an ever-darker web of intrigue and manipulation.

On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women - one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there.

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life...until her body is found in the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected 15-year-old daughter, Hekla, has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?

The wealthy, powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland’s remote Snæfellsnes peninsula. Petra Snæberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose social-media presence has attracted the wrong kind of followers. As the weather deteriorates and the alcohol flows, one of the guests disappears, and it becomes clear that there is a prowler lurking in the dark. But is the real danger inside...within the family itself?

It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their lives forever. They catch nothing except a broken doll that gets tangled in the net. After years in the ocean, the doll a terrifying sight and the mother's first instinct is to throw it back, but she relents when her daughter pleads to keep it. This simple act of kindness proves fatal. That evening, the mother posts a picture of the doll on social media. By the morning, she is dead and the doll has disappeared.

Detective H. Grímsson is intelligent, hard as nails, and very resourceful. But he's also his own worst enemy. After an unfortunate shooting incident in Iceland's largest shopping mall on Christmas Eve, he's demoted to a police deputy in a small rural village in eastern Iceland. Grímsson's plan is to kick back, drink some beer, and enjoy this time away from home. When two young female hitchhikers disappear, Grímsson fears that the girls are lost in the highlands or have drowned in the glacial river. But then one of the girls wanders naked into the village and dies in Grimsson's arms.

Dive into the chilling depths of Icelandic mysteries with "Arctic Shadows: Unveiling Iceland's Dark Secrets"—a captivating Nordic noir audiobook collection that will transport you to the heart of suspense and intrigue! Embark on a journey through the haunting landscapes of Iceland and Greenland as you uncover the clandestine truths lurking beneath the surface. As you immerse yourself in these captivating stories, you'll be swept away by the breathtaking atmospheric descriptions and the intricate web of secrets that lies beneath the surface of these remote Arctic communities.

FÖR Á ÓKUNNAR SLÓÐIR. Þau voru send frá Englandi með fangaskipum. Þjófar, glæpamenn og morðingjar - sum ranglega ákærð, önnur réttilega. Það féll í þeirra hlut að breyta óbyggðum Ástralíu í byggilegt land. Þeim var troðið niður í daunillar lestir skipa Hans hátignar og siglt með þau yfir hættuleg höf allt frá ískaldri auðn Suðurskautslandsins, að Suðurhöfða, Tasmaníu og að skipalægi Cooks á Botany Bay. Örlaganornirnar voru grimmar og illar við Jenny Taggart, sem var aðeins fimmtán ára gömul, þegar hún var ranglega kærð fyrir þjófnað.

Sönn frásögn af skúrki, eiturlyfjasala og neytanda, glæpamanni sem snéri við blaðinu og notar núna reynslu sína úr undirheimum Montreal til að helga líf sitt hjálparstarfi og mannúðarmálum. Maðurinn sem veit allt um neikvæð áhrif styrjalda og átaka. Marc Vachon er fæddur í Montreal árið 1963. Hann var yfirgefinn af móður sinni sem ungabarn. Munaðarleysingi sem þekkti aldrei foreldra sína. Ólst upp við slæm kjör í Montreal, götustrákur og glæpamaður. Eins og tekið upp úr sögu eftir Charles Dickens. Fyrir tilviljun kynntist hann starfsemi Lækna án landamæra og snéri við blaðinu.

Á einu augabragði var framtíð Matts Hunter þurrkuð út: Slagsmál, vinur í klemmu, og brestur í höfuðkúpu sem skall á steinsteypu. Fyrir þetta þurfti hann að gjalda fjögur ár i fangelsi og brot af sjálfum sér. Þegar honum er sleppt er hann eldri og skynsamari. Hann fær gott starf og gengur að eiga dásamlega konu. Einn dag fær hann sendar undarlegar myndir af eiginkonu sinni með ókunnum karlmanni, allt í einu er hann hundeltur af lögreglu sem einu sinni var skólafélagi hans. Nú er einhver á hælum hans sem ógnar öllu því sem hann hefur streðað til þess að eignast.

On a long, cold Icelandic night in March 1920, Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, finds himself with an unwanted lodger - Sigurd, an injured stranger who offers a story from the past. But some stories, even those of an old man who can barely walk, are too dangerous to hear. They alter the listeners' lives forever...by ending them. Others are keen on changing Gunnar's life as well. Depending on who gets to tell his story, it might lead toward an unwanted marriage, an intervention, rejoining the Church, letting the elf drive him insane, or succumbing to the demons in his mind.

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