Friday Update: The Reading Queue (1st May)
Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. Not the worst problem, I've got, but apologies, as always to the authors and...Read more
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Grant Nicol
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (17th April)
The days are definitely shortening now which means the Spring Classics bike racing is in full swing, which means no sleep and a freaked...Read more
Friday Update: The Reading Queue (24th April)
Still juggling, still not getting enough books read. What a "dreadful" problem to have.
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The Mistake
Everybody Makes Mistakes!
A mutilated body is found on a lonely street in Reykjavík.
Detective Grímur intends to see that justice is done.
Kjartan Jónsson vows that his daughter’s killer will be punished. And that the punishment will fit the crime....Read more
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The Mistake, Grant Nicol
The novella THE MISTAKE is short, sharp, packed with a punch crime fiction set in Iceland, written by ex-pat New Zealander Grant Nicol. Set in Reykjavik, there's a lot that's laid on the line, as you'd expect in something constrained by length. There's been a brutal murder and the clear...Read more
On A Small Island
In the space of just a few short days, Ylfa Einarsdóttir sees her peaceful existence in downtown Reykjavík turned on its head. Some unexpected news from one of her sisters and a brutal murder that’s far too close to home for comfort leave her wondering why life has turned on her so suddenly...Read more
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On A Small Island, Grant Nicol
A New Zealand born, Australian and Northern Ireland dwelling, now Iceland based author has written a book set in his adopted city of Reykjavík, with a central female character whose life is turned upside down in a very short space of time, that really works. Read ON A SMALL ISLAND so you...Read more
Out on the Ice
One brief but tragic moment out on a frozen Reykjavík lake changes Sóley’s life forever. Now, looking back on the last twenty-three years of her life, she attempts to make sense of it all. The tears, the pain and the lives lost along the way.
No one ever told her bringing up a...Read more
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A Place to Bury Strangers
"A story as bone-chilling as the air his characters breathe…” A cryptic message left next to a charred corpse in the middle of Reykjavík leaves police worried they have a gang war on their hands. Across town Detective Grímur Karlsson investigates a missing girl from a nice suburban family...Read more
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A Place to Bury Strangers, Grant Nicol
Well this is surprising, and a testament to the power of a bit of a tidy up sometimes, because in the process of doing so I discovered I'd not published these notes ... a long time ago. Apologies to the author - this is a series of four books set in Iceland, from Kiwi Author Grant Nicol....Read more