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The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur Indridason

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 December, 2025

Translated by Philip Roughton — The topography, geography and meteorology of Iceland are never far out of mind in Arnaldur Indridason’s crime stories. His most recent to be published in English, The Quiet Mother, is a police procedural. It’s the third novel featuring Indridason’s detective,…

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The Shadow of the Northern Lights by Satu Rämö

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 December, 2025

Translated by Kristian London — Finnish author Satu Rämö is new on our site, but this is a writer you need to know about, particularly if you love Nordic noir. Her series featuring Icelandic detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir first arrived in English translation in October 2024…

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Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson

By crimefictionlover

16 July, 2025

Translated by Quentin Bates — When the Reykjavik police decide to move in on an organised crime gang, all available officers are sequestered to take part in the raid. All except two, that is. Not Rado. He’s in a tricky position. His background is Serbian,…

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Icelandic crime author Jón Atli Jónasson reads from Broken

By crimefictionlover

2 July, 2025

If you love your Nordic noir, then you’re bound to enjoy the new edition of Video Evidence, presented by Crime Fiction Lover, on our YouTube channel. Icelandic crime fiction author Jón Atli Jónasson joins us to read a short passage from his debut novel, Broken….

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Interview: Jón Atli Jónasson

By crimefictionlover

4 June, 2025

Although Jón Atli Jónasson isn’t a household name, if you’re a Scandi-phile or love Nordic noir you may have come across his work. Together with Baltasar Kormákur, Jón Atli wrote the screenplay for The Deep, the excellent Icelandic film which dramatised the story of a…

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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2024

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from…

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Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2024

Sometimes, it seems, magnetic north has a pull that is more than just ionic. For Swiss crime fiction author Joachim B Schmidt, this was certainly the case and after falling in love with the place as a teenager he emigrated there in 2007. It’s where…

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Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

7 May, 2024

Translated by Quentin Bates — Last year, Stella Blómkvist made their debut in English with Murder at the Residence and we discovered that the author’s identity is a mystery, even among the Icelandic writing community, which seems quite amazing. Now as second novel from this…

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The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur Indridason

The Shadow of the Northern Lights by Satu Rämö

Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson

Icelandic crime author Jón Atli Jónasson reads from Broken

Interview: Jón Atli Jónasson

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

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