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Ragnar Jónasson

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in Reykjavík, Iceland

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Mystery & Thrillers, Crime

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Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.

His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.

Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.

Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.

Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Po ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 170,097 ratings · 18,956 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 28,707 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1) 3.53 avg rating — 23,349 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Victoria Cribb (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 13,730 ratings — published 2016 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reykjavík by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Victoria Cribb (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 14,220 ratings — published 2022 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mist (Hidden Iceland #3) 3.92 avg rating — 11,821 ratings — published 2017 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightblind (Dark Iceland, #2) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 10,859 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackout (Dark Iceland, #3) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 10,904 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rupture (Dark Iceland, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 9,175 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death at the Sanatorium (Helgi, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 9,020 ratings — published 2019 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whiteout (Dark Iceland, #5) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 7,677 ratings — published 2013 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Ragnar Jónasson

Dark Iceland (6 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author),

David Warriner (Translator)

3.69 avg rating — 75,607 ratings

Temačna Islandija (6 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author),

David Warriner (Translator)

3.69 avg rating — 74,938 ratings

Siglufjörður (6 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author),

David Warriner (Translator)

3.68 avg rating — 64,528 ratings

Hidden Iceland (4 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author)

3.70 avg rating — 49,768 ratings

Helgi Trilogy (3 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author)

3.64 avg rating — 14,111 ratings

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“A mind can be turned by a single cruel word. Care should be taken in the presence of a soul.’ – Einar Benediktsson, from ‘Starkaður’s Soliloquies”
― Ragnar Jónasson, The Island

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“It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring.”
― Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness

tags: fore-shortened-future, frozen, immobile, ptsd, stuck, tonic-immobility, traumatized

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“A good book could transport her far, far away, to a different world, another country, another culture, where the climate was warmer and life was easier.”
― Ragnar Jónasson, The Mist

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Polls

What "Cold as Ice" themed book would you like to read and discuss with the group in January 2021! Please only vote if you are seriously interested in reading/discussing the book you vote for in January.

Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1) by Pepper Winters

Tears of Tess by Pepper Winters

3 votes, 33.3%

Thrown Off the Ice by Taylor Fitzpatrick

3 votes, 33.3%

Love & Other Lessons by Susan Fanetti

2 votes, 22.2%

The Darkness (Hidden Iceland, #1) by Ragnar Jónasson

The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson

1 vote, 11.1%

The Lady Who Came in from the Cold (Heart of Enquiry, #3) by Grace Callaway

The Lady Who Came in from the Cold by Grace Callaway

0 votes, 0.0%

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