Three million books sold worldwide

34 territories

“Is this the best crime writer in the world today?”
THE TIMES

“A world class crime writer”
THE SUNDAY TIMES

“Nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction”
THE TIMES

“the precision of Harold Pinter”
THE WASHINGTON POST

"Jonasson is an automatic must-read for me - he's possibly the best Scandi writer working today."
LEE CHILD

“absolutely a triumph”
IAN RANKIN (on The Mist)

“The king of Icelandic crime fiction.”
Göteborgsposten

Ragnar Jonasson is the award winning author of the international bestselling Dark Iceland series, the Hulda Trilogy and standalone crime fiction.

CBS Studios is to adapt The Darkness as an eight-part TV series.

The Times selected The Darkness as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers since 1945. Snowblind was selected as one of Top 100 Crime Fiction of all time by Blackwell’s.

Literary agents:
Monica Gram - Copenhagen Literary Agency (worldwide)
David Headley - DHH Literary Agency (UK/US)

Film and TV rights:
Emily Hayward-Whitlock - The Artists Partnership

Ragnar has been a no. 1 bestseller in Germany (Spiegel Bestseller), a no. 1 crime fiction bestseller in France and a no. 1 Kindle bestseller in the UK and Australia. In 2020 he became the first Icelandic author ever to have three books in the top ten of the German Spiegel bestseller.

Ragnar has also enjoyed awards across the international crime scene. He won the Mörda Dead Good Reader Award for Nightblind, and The Mist won the Amazon Publishing & Capital Crime Mystery of the Year award in 2020. Snowblind was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015. His books have also won praise from publications such as The Times of London, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement.

He has also been shortlisted for Novel of the Year in Sweden, The Barry Award in the US and the Petrona Award. The film rights for The Darkness have also been snapped up by Hollywood production company Stampede, led by former President of Warner Bros, Greg Silverman. They have struck a deal with CBS Studios to adapt the novel into an eight-part series.

Ragnar is the co-founder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir. From the age of 17, Ragnar translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. Ragnar has appeared on festival panels worldwide, and lives in Reykjavik. Ragnar has a law degree and works as an investment banker in Reykjavik, in addition to teaching law at Reykjavik University.

NOVELS

Fölsk nóta, 2009 - Ari Thor Prequel

Snjóblinda, 2010 (Snowblind) - Dark Iceland book no. 1

Myrknætti, 2011 (Blackout) - Dark Iceland book no. 2

Rof, 2012 (Rupture) - Dark Iceland book no. 3

Andköf, 2013 (Whiteout) - Dark Iceland book no. 4

Náttblinda, 2014 (Nightblind) - Dark Iceland book no. 5

Dimma, 2015 (The Darkness) - Hulda book no. 1

Drungi, 2016 (The Island) - Hulda book no. 2

Mistur, 2017 (The Mist) - Hulda book no. 3

Þorpið, 2018 (The Girl who Died) - standalone novel

Hvíti dauði, 2019 (White Death) - Helgi book no. 1

Vetrarmein, 2020 (Winterkill) - Dark Iceland book no. 6

Úti, 2021 (Outside) - standalone novel

SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH:

Death of a Sunflower, 2014, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2014.

Party of Two, 2014, Guilty Parties - CWA 2014 Anthology (Severn House)

A Moment by the Sea, 2014, Orendabooks.co.uk

A Letter to Santa, 2015, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2015

A Postcard from Iceland, 2017, Mystery Tour - CWA 2017 (Orenda Books)

Don’t Panic, 2019, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019

The Silence of the Falling Snow, 2020 (Penguin & Macmillan, The Mist)

The Daughter, 2020 (Goldsboro Books)

A Christmas Puzzle, 2020 (The Mysterious Bookshop)

The Concert, 2021 - written with Víkingur Ólafsson