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Praise for Ragnar Jónasson

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Dark, chilling and utterly gripping, The Island is Nordic noir at its best, and is destined to become a classic of the genre. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to read the rest of the Hulda series!

Shari Lapena, bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

Adds several shades of darkness to Nordic noir

Anthony Horowitz

One of the great tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction

Sunday Times

I often get asked about tips on good crime novels which "are not like everything else". Well, here you have it. Read Ragnar Jónasson's trilogy from beginning to end, let the brain work, the body shake and be amazed at how the author also lets the language follow the development of the story . . . hats off

GöteborgsPosten

Fans of dark crime fiction that doesn't pull punches will be amply rewarded

Publishers Weekly

Snow and ice provide the background to Ragnar Jónasson's latest exploration of trauma and hardship in Iceland. Throughout the novel, the characters' wilful refusal to face reality is both exasperating and credible

Literary Review

It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction

The Times

Ragnar Jónasson is a brilliant storyteller, who skillfully tells the story on multiple time levels, with different main characters and surprising twists. Frighteningly believable, and exciting to the end

Dagens Nyheter

Jónasson weaves his suspenseful tales together with remorseless logic up to a climax more nightmarish than the buildup

Kirkus

This is such a tense, gripping read

Anthony Horowitz

Jónasson takes us back to Hulda's origin story with a tale that combines his special talents for spinning a chilling and ingeniously constructed mystery and evoking the dramatic Icelandic environment

Sunday Times Crime Club

A world-class crime writer. One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction. A triumphant conclusion to the trilogy [that] makes Iceland's pre-eminence in the crime genre even more marked

Sunday Times

Triumphant conclusion. Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense

Ian Rankin

This is Icelandic noir of the highest order, with Jonasson's atmospheric sense of place, and his heroine's unerring humanity shining from every page

Daily Mail

Wrap up warmly for this invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic noir

Financial Times

Shades of Alfred Hitchcock . . . The author's deceptive plotting in this story is certain to blow readers away

Dayton Daily News

Ragnar Jonasson is old school . . . He deals in vertiginous, unputdownable stories that are nevertheless still imbued with melancholy and heartbreak. This is his best yet

Metro

Standalone thriller from the author of the Hulda Trilogy lives up to expectations and offers psychological drama and a ghostly atmosphere at the world's end. A story that gets under your skin

Göteborgs Posten, Sweden

Ragnar Jónasson is a brilliant storyteller, who skilfully tells the story on multiple time levels, with different main characters and surprising twists. It is frighteningly believable, and exciting to the end

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden

Jonasson's is a unique voice in this genre. The beauty of this trilogy is that each book enraptures us almost to the point of forgetting the future we already know. Brilliantly effective

The Times Literary Supplement

Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today

Lee Child

Is this the best crime writer in the world today? . . . He's truly a master of his genre

The Times Online

Unforgettable

Sunday Times

Will leave you breathless

Sunday Post

Triumphant . . . Other writers have explored the possibilities of telling a story in reverse; thus far only Ragnar Jonasson has rendered hindsight so heartbreaking

The Times

Extraordinary . . . a triumph

Ian Rankin

[Jonasson's] chilling whodunits currently have readers firmly in their icy grip

Daily Telegraph