Ragnar Jónasson Books in Order

At a former tuberculosis sanatorium in northern Iceland in 1983, a nurse is murdered and the chief doctor soon dies in a suspicious fall. Nearly thirty years later, young criminologist Helgi Reykdal revisits the case for his thesis and new police job, discovering lies among the surviving staff.

In the 1950s, teenage maid Lára disappears from the only house on the small island of Viðey, just off Reykjavík, and the mystery becomes Iceland’s most famous cold case. Thirty years later, journalist Valur Róbertsson reopens the file, uncovering buried scandals in the capital’s corridors of power.

Four old friends reunite for a hunting trip in Iceland’s highlands, only to be caught in a whiteout and forced into an emergency hut. Inside they find a silent stranger with a shotgun, and as the night wears on, buried resentments and deadly choices surface.

Una, a struggling substitute teacher in Reykjavík, accepts a winter post in the tiny village of Skálar, population ten. Alone in a creaking attic room and hearing a child’s ghostly singing, she’s drawn into the community’s secrets after a sudden death shakes the town.

Over Easter weekend, tourists flood snowy Siglufjörður as nineteen-year-old Unnur falls from a balcony onto the main street. With a blizzard cutting power and roads, Ari Thór probes her quiet life and a disturbing message from a nursing-home patient who insists she was murdered.

In 1987, a desperate stranger knocks on the door of an isolated farmhouse during a brutal snowstorm. The couple who let him in soon face a night of mounting dread, and years later Hulda must piece together what really happened in the blizzard.

A decade earlier in Hulda’s career, four friends reunite on isolated Elliðaey island off Iceland’s coast; by the weekend’s end, one has fallen from the cliffs. Hulda’s investigation exposes long-held secrets and echoes an unsolved murder in the distant Westfjords.

Forced into early retirement, sixty-four-year-old detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir is given one last cold case. She chooses a young Russian asylum seeker found dead on a remote shore, and soon uncovers other vanished women and a truth her own colleagues would rather ignore.

Years after first arriving in Siglufjörður, Ari Thór is settled with his family when his new inspector is shot at close range in an abandoned house. Working with returning mentor Tómas, he must untangle local politics and old grudges to find the attacker.

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of near-deserted Kálfshamarsvík. Ari Thór and former boss Tómas are drawn into a family’s dark history when they learn her mother and sister died at the same spot years earlier.

Decades after a young woman dies in mysterious circumstances at an isolated farm in Hedinsfjörður, a forgotten photograph surfaces. As Siglufjörður sits under quarantine, Ari Thór and reporter Ísrún reopen the old case and uncover fresh danger in the present.

During an ash-darkened summer on Iceland’s north coast, a construction worker is found bludgeoned near a fjord. Ari Thór and his team investigate alongside ambitious journalist Ísrún, exposing tangled secrets that link the quiet town to Reykjavík.

In the isolated fishing town of Siglufjörður, rookie policeman Ari Thór takes his first posting far from Reykjavík and his girlfriend. When a famous writer dies after a fall and a young woman is left bleeding in the snow, he must solve the case as an avalanche seals the town.