Ragnar Jonasson has 14 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.1★ across 50 ratings. The most-rated is The Darkness: A Thriller.
Snowblind
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Siglufjördur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland where no one locks their doors - accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík - with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one and secrets and lies are a way of life. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts as Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness - blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose. Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from an extraordinary new talent.
©2017 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Darkness: A Thriller
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Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. She knows which one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum ended on the dark, cold shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking. Hulda will find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger.
©2015; 2018 Text copyright Ragnar Jonasson; Translation copyright Victoria Cribb (P)2018 Penguin Books Ltd
The Mist
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The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. It's 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books "If you’re looking for a fictional good fright to distract you from the real ones, look no further than this third entry in the Hidden Iceland series , featuring brainy, glum police inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir." (Washington Post)
©2020 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
The Island
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"Narrator Amanda Redman gives an adept performance as she takes on the various characters in this Icelandic thriller." (AudioFile Magazine) The newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene has arrived with a superb follow-up to The Darkness. Short-listed 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 best-selling 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 Jonasson 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 audiobook in this series.
©2016; 2019 Text copyright Ragnar Jonasson; Translation copyright Victoria Cribb (P)2019 Penguin Books Ltd.
Blackout
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A huge best seller in England, France, and Australia, this is the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer. On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit. What secrets does the dead man harbor, and what is the young reporter hiding? As silent, unspoken horrors from the past threaten them all, and the darkness deepens, it's a race against time to find the killer before someone else dies. Dark, terrifying, and complex, Blackout is an exceptional, atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers. A 2016 London Guardian Best Book of the Year in Readers' Picks.
©2018 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Snowblind
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Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland where no one locks their doors - accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik - with a past that he’s unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theatre, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life. An avalanche and unremitting snowstorms close the mountain pass, and the 24-hour darkness threatens to push Ari over the edge, as curtains begin to twitch, and his investigation becomes increasingly complex, chilling and personal. Past plays tag with the present, and the claustrophobic tension mounts while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness – blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose. Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from an extraordinary new talent, taking Nordic noir to soaring new heights. Author of the best-selling Dark Iceland crime series, Ragnar Jonasson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1976 and works as a lawyer. He also teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University and has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Before becoming a writer, Ragnar translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic and has had short stories published in international literary magazines. Ragnar is a member of the UK Crime Writers' Association (CWA) and recently set up the first overseas chapter of the CWA, in Reykjavik. He is also the cofounder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir, which was selected by the Guardian as one of the 'best crime-writing festivals around the world'. Ragnar has appeared on panels at festivals worldwide, and he lives in Reykjavik with his wife and daughter.
©2015 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
Winterkill
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When the body of a 19-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer.... The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international best-selling Dark Iceland series. Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he’s separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before Easter, a 19-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident, and when an old man in a local nursing home writes ‘She was murdered’ again and again on the wall of his room, there is every suggestion that something more sinister lies at the heart of her death.... As the extreme weather closes in, cutting the power and access to Siglufjörður, Ari Thór must piece together the puzzle to reveal a horrible truth...one that will leave no one unscathed. Chilling, claustrophobic and disturbing, Winterkill marks the startling conclusion to the million-copy best-selling Dark Iceland series and cements Ragnar Jónasson as one of the most exciting authors in crime fiction.
©2020 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Nightblind
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Ari Thor returns to investigate a chilling series of crimes that are rooted in tragic events from the past. Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman - shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Thór to piece together a puzzle that involves tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavik, where someone is being held against their will. Then a mysterious young woman moves to the area, on the run from something she dare not reveal, and it becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all. Dark, chilling and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from an undeniable new talent.
©2016 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Nightblind
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Ari Thór Arason is a local policeman whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland - where no one locks their doors - continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman - shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Thór to piece together a puzzle that involves tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward in Reykjavík where someone is being held against their will. Then a mysterious young woman moves to the area, on the run from something she dares not reveal, and it becomes all too clear that tragic events from the past are weaving a sinister spell that may threaten them all.
©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Dunkel
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Eine junge Frau suchte Sicherheit, doch was sie fand, war der Tod. Hulda Hermannsdottir, Kommissarin bei der Polizei Reykjavik, soll frühzeitig in Ruhestand gehen, um Platz für einen jüngeren Kollegen zu machen. Sie darf sich einen letzten Fall, einen Cold Case, aussuchen - und sie weiß sofort, für welchen sie sich entscheidet: eine junge Frau, tot an der isländischen Küste aufgefunden, angeblich Selbstmord. Was Hulda entdeckt, ist düsterer als sie sich vorgestellt hatte. Als sogar ihre Kollegen beginnen, ihre Ermittlungen zu durchkreuzen, bleiben Hulda nur noch wenige Tage, um endlich die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Eine Wahrheit, für die sie ihr eigenes Leben riskiert … >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2020 btb Verlag. Übersetzung von Kristian Lutze (P)2020 der Hörverlag
La Dame de Reykjavik
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Hulda a tout donné à sa carrière. Mais en faisant toujours cavalier seul. Elle a beau être une des meilleures enquêtrices du poste de police de Reykjavík, à soixante-quatre ans, sa direction la pousse vers la sortie. Comme une dernière faveur, elle demande à son patron de rouvrir une affaire non résolue. Elle n'a que quinze jours devant elle. Mais l'enquête sur la mort d'Elena, une jeune russe demandeuse d'asile, va s'avérer bien plus complexe et risquée que prévu. Hulda a-t-elle vraiment pesé tous les risques ?
©2015 / 2018 Titre original : Dimma, Ragnar Jónasson, publié avec l'aimable autorisation de la Copenhagen Literary Agency A/S, Copenhague. Traduction depuis l'édition anglaise revue et corrigée par l'auteur : Penguin / Pour la traduction française, Éditions La Martinière, Une marque de la société EDLM (P)2019 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
Rupture
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The fourth installment in the international best-selling Dark Iceland series Over a million copies sold worldwide With a stalker on the loose and the town of Siglufjörður in quarantine, a child goes missing, as Icelandic police officer Ari Thór Arason investigates a cold case of a mysterious death on an isolated fjord.... "Bitingly contemporary in setting and tone." (Express) "A modern take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom...." (Ian Rankin) 1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all.... In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. He’s assisted by Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik, who is investigating an increasingly chilling case of her own. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight. With a stalker on the loose, and the town of Siglufjörður in quarantine, the past might just come back to haunt them. Haunting, frightening and complex, Rupture is a dark and atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland’s foremost crime writers. "Traditional and beautifully finessed…morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons." (Independent) "A distinctive blend of Nordic Noir and Golden Age detective fiction…economical and evocative prose, as well as some masterful prestidigitation." (Laura Wilson, Guardian) "A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens…first rate and highly recommended." (Lee Child) Design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
©2017 Ragnar Jonasson; English language translation 2016 by Quentin Bates (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Insel
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Vier Freunde auf einer entlegenen Insel, aber nur drei kehren zurück - Teil 2 der spannenden Thriller-Trilogie um Kommissarin Hulda. Hulda Hermannsdóttir, Kommissarin bei der Polizei Reykjavík, ist auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Karriere und wird zu einer abgelegenen Insel geschickt. Was ist dort in dem Haus geschehen, das von der Bevölkerung als das isolierteste Haus Islands bezeichnet wird? Huldas Ermittlungen kreuzen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart - und plötzlich ist sie einem Mörder auf der Spur, der möglicherweise nicht nur ein Leben auf dem Gewissen hat... >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2020 btb Verlag. Übersetzung von Kristian Lutze (P)2020 der Hörverlag
Nebel
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Ein einsames Haus, ein unaufhaltsamer Schneesturm, ein verhängnisvoller Besuch - Teil 3 der der spannenden Thriller-Trilogie um Kommissarin Hulda. Kurz vor Weihnachten, inmitten eines Schneesturms, klopft es plötzlich an der Tür eines abgelegenen Bauernhauses. Das dort lebende Paar sieht sich konfrontiert mit einem Fremden, der schon bald in Erklärungsnot gerät. Ist der unerwartete Gast nicht nur ein Lügner, sondern auch ein Mörder? Die Handlung spielt zehn Jahre vor INSEL und deckt die ganze Wahrheit um Huldas Schicksal und den Tod ihres Mannes auf... >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2020 btb Verlag. Übersetzung von Andreas Jäger (P)2020 der Hörverlag