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Author
Series
Biblioasis international translation volume 45
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realizes he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recall either sister, nor their mother, the woman buried beneath the stone. As their stories...
Author
Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdttir volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1973, a volcanic eruption buried an entire Icelandic village in lava and ash. Now, hoping to make some cash, a crew is assembled to excavate the site and turn it into a tourist destination. Markús, who was a teenager when the volcano erupted, enlists the help of attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttir to try to prevent the excavation from going forward. When the digging continues and three fresh bodies (and a spare head) turn up in the basement of Markús'...
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland, Thóra is hired to uncover the fates of the missing people. When she arrives in Greenland, she discovers that these aren't the first two to go missing. The local townspeople believe that the area is cursed, and no one wants to get involved in the case. Soon, Thora finds herself stranded in the middle of a wilderness, and the case...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists.
A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he's there or how he arrived, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man's cryptic questions, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries, a past pressed into
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