Icelandic Thrilles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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