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1) Cold comfort
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Promoted to Reykjavâik's Serious Crime Unit, Sergeant Gunnhildur endeavors to recapture a vengeful escaped convict while investigating the murder of a fitness guru in her city-center apartment, cases that reveal unsettling links.
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this story evokes a dramatic existence in a distant tme and place. Here the author brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to...
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2019.
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"Escape to a place unlike anywhere you've been before and the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, roaring log fires and the Northern Lights ... With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn't quite expect to find herself in the middle of a snowy nowhere, in a land of hot springs and snowflake-dusted...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2019]
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A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. Her past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while rumors spread of a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.
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Finn thrillers volume 2
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Bantam Books
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[2022]
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Disgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run. A wanted man since he jumped ship from the USS Abraham Lincoln, he's sought for questioning in connection to war crimes committed in Yemen by a rogue element in his SEAL team. But his memory of that night-as well as the true fate of his mentor and only friend, Lieutenant Kennedy-is a gaping hole. Finn learns that three members of his team have been quietly redeployed to Iceland, which is a puzzle in itself;...
8) Thief eyes
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Haley's mother disappeared while on a trip to Iceland, and a year later, when her father takes her there to find out what happened, Haley finds herself deeply involved in an ancient saga that began with her Nordic ancestors.
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Minotaur Books
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2021.
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A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results-one of the missing man's business associates was briefly held in custody, but there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. Now the associate is arrested again and Konrad, the retired policeman who originally investigated the disappearance,...
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Vertical Comics
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2019.
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"The story takes place in Iceland, at land's end, 64°N. Kei Miyama is a 17-year-old with three secrets: he can talk to cars, he can't handle pretty girls, and he works as a private investigator. One case has him searching for a beloved dog, another involves reuniting a woman with a man she fell for at first sight. And then comes a case that strikes close to home--searching for his own little brother. Tag along as this globe-spanning journey unfolds...
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Forgotten castles novel volume 2
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Tethered by her impulsive promise to marry Lord John Lemon, Alexandria Featherstone sets off toward Iceland in search of her parents. A glimpse of her guardian, the Duke of St. Easton on Dublin's shore still haunts her. Since hearing his ward's name, the Duke knows that Alexandria will be the life or the death of him. Only time and God's plan will reveal just how much this man can endure for the prize of love.
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What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland's frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back...
