The Island by Ragnar Jonasson

The Island by Ragnar Jonasson

The newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene has arrived with a superb followup to The Darkness.

Shortlisted for the Crime Novel of the Year Award in Iceland
Third Place, Novel of the Year Award 2016 in Iceland, selected by booksellers
One of the bestselling novels in Iceland in 2016

Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday--a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences.

Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness.

Ragnar Jónasson burst onto the American scene with Snowblind and Nightblind, the first two novels in the Ari Thor thriller series, and the praise was overwhelming. With The Darkness, he launched a new series featuring a completely new sleuth, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police department. The Island is the second book in this series.

Ragnar Jonasson was born in Iceland and works as an attorney at law and writer in Reykjavik. Before embarking on a writing career, he translated fourteen Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. He is the cofounder of the international crime writing festival Iceland Noir and has appeared on panels at various crime fiction festivals, including Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime in the United States. Jonasson lives in Reykjavik with his wife and two daughters.