Whiteout

THE FOURTH INSTALMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES

OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD

When the body of a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted Icelandic village of K lfshamarv k, police officer Ari Th r Arason uncovers a startling and terrifying connection to an earlier series of deaths, as the killer remains on the loose...

'J nasson's books have breathed new life into Nordic noir' Sunday Express

'J nasson skilfully alternates points of view and shifts of time ... The action builds to a shattering climax' Publishers Weekly

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Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of K lfshamarv k.

Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop?
With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Th r Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier.

As the dark history and its secrets of the village are unveiled, and the death toll begins to rise, the Siglufjordur detectives must race against the clock to find the killer, before another tragedy takes place.

Dark, chilling and complex, Whiteout is a haunting, atmospheric and stunningly plotted thriller from one of Iceland's bestselling crime writers.

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'Traditional and beautifully finessed ...morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons' Andrew Taylor, Independent

'J nasson has come up with a bleak plot and characters, but his evocation of Iceland's chilly landscape is hard to put down' Sunday Times

'A distinctive blend of Nordic Noir and Golden Age detective fiction ... masterful' Laura Wilson, Guardian

'Required reading' New York Post

'Puts a lively, sophisticated spin on the Agatha Christie model, taking it down intriguing dark alleys' Kirkus Reviews

'The best sort of gloomy storytelling' Chicago Tribune

'The prose is stark and minimal, the mood dank and frost-tipped. It's also bleakly brilliant, although perhaps best read with a warming shot of whisky by your side' Metro

'A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens ... first rate and highly recommended' Lee Child

'Ragnar J nasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty - a must-read' Peter James

'A modern take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom' Ian Rankin

'Seductive ... Ragnar does claustrophobia beautifully' Ann Cleeves

Author: Ragnar Jonasson
Publisher: Orenda Books
Published: 01/01/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781910633892

About the Author
Ragnar Jónasson is an Icelandic crime writer who currently works as a lawyer while teaching copyright law at the Reykjavík University Law School. Ragnar has translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic, and has had several short stories published in German, English, and Icelandic literary magazines. Ragnar set up the first overseas chapter of the CWA (Crime Writers' Association) in Reykjavík, and is co-founder of the International crime-writing festival Iceland Noir. He is the author of Snowblind, Nightblind (winner of the Dead Good Reads Most Captivating Crime in Translation Award), Blackout, and Rupture.