WHITE DEATH
Iceland, 2019
Sweden, 2020 (Vit Död)
UK, 2023 - Penguin
Unsolved murders in an old hospital in Northern Iceland in 1983 are being investigated by a young criminologist who is writing his thesis on the events thirty years later …
Introducing Helgi Reykdal - and also featuring Hulda Hermannsdottir.
Rights sold to Macmillan (USA/Canada) and Penguin (UK).
No. 1 bestselling Icelandic novel of October 2019.
“The sequel to the Hulda Trilogy, with a new character, lives up to expectations. Skilfully told on different time levels, and with an ending that promises more.”
Ten Best New Crime Novels
Göteborgsposten, Sweden, December 2020 (Maria Näslund)
“Ragnar Jónasson has been growing steadily as a crime novelist and is now amongst the best. White Death is probably his best book yet. The story never stops moving, although it is quiet and calm, and the reader is engaged from start to finish. You can hardly ask for much more than that … reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock …”
**** Morgunbladid, newspaper (Iceland)