Read the first chapters here! A woman is discovered dead in her prison cell. Detective Gudgeir and his colleagues investigate the complicated case that turns out to have far-reaching implications going all the way back to a massive earthquake, that shook Iceland in the year 2000, where a young man disappeared without a trace. What is the connection between these two cases, separated by nearly two decades? SHACKLES is the latest of Icelandic native Sólveig Pálsdóttir‘s books in the stand-alone …

 Read the first chapters here! It‘s a snowy day in January when a small plane lands in a tiny town east of Vatnajökull glacier. Among the passengers is a young woman from Sri Lanka who thinks she‘s there to start a new life working at the local beauty parlour. Instead she finds herself working as a cleaner in an isolated country home beneath the looming mountains of the Eastfjords, whose jagged cliffs resemble razorblades. Her new employer is Selma, an …

A prominent middle-aged businessman is found dead on a golf course in the south of Iceland. The same day a sensational course of events kicks off in Reykjavík, when an explosion rocks a whaling boat in the harbour and a group of young people hold demonstrations outside restaurants that have whale meat on the menu. The under-staffed police force has plenty to deal with, and on top of it all Særos, on whom senior officer Gudgeir normally relies, is not …

Helga was sitting against the wall in the break room of S. Meyvantsson & Co.„s warehouse, with her legs flat on the floor and leaning a little bit to the left. She was dressed in a black velvet skirt and a bright yellow, short- sleeved shirt, with prominent shoulder-pads. A yellow and black silk scarf was tied delicately around her neck. Her pale, thin arms lay limply by her side and she had an air of vulnerability as she sat …