Ragnar Jónasson

About Ragnar Jónasson

Ragnar Jónasson is an Icelandic author of crime fiction, best known for the Dark Iceland series featuring police officer Ari Þór Arason, set in the northern town of Siglufjörður, and the Hulda trilogy featuring Reykjavík detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir. His books have sold several million copies and been published in around 40 countries. In 2022 he co-wrote the novel Reykjavík with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, then the Prime Minister of Iceland, followed by a sequel, Franski spítalinn, in 2025.

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Upcoming Titles

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  The Valley May 11, 2027

  From the author of The Body in the Bath comes Ragnar Jónasson next mystery featuring detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir, who must investigate a twenty-year-old unsolved missing child case. On Christmas Eve in 1960, a man named Atli leaves his house in Reykjavík unlocked and walks through the snow to fetch some shopping bags from his car. When he gets back, he finds the front door locked, and no one answers his knocks. Immediately afraid for his wife and baby, fearing that an intruder might have got in while he was away, he starts trying to break down the door.

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Earlier Books

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  The Dark Iceland Series October 31, 2025 View on Amazon: The Dark Iceland Series
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  The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer September 9, 2025

  An Instant National Bestseller The next thrilling golden-age-style mystery from #1 Icelandic bestseller Ragnar Jónasson, author of Death at the Sanatorium and Reykjavík. One winter evening, bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective Helgi to crack the case before its leaked to the press. As Helgi interviews the people closest to her—a publisher, an accountant, a retired judge—he realizes that Elín’s life wasn’t what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than the fiction she wrote.

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  The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 16 May 13, 2025

  Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The sixteenth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of four can't-miss novels publishing September 2025 for free and easy sampling. Cathy Pegau's A Murderous Business is a compelling mystery about two women in turn-of-the-century New York solving murder and fighting the heteropatriarchy. The Girl in the Jade Green Dress by Mariah Fredericks is an evocative mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald.

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  Outside June 28, 2022 View on Amazon: Outside
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  Nightblind December 5, 2017 View on Amazon: Nightblind
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  Snowblind November 7, 2017 View on Amazon: Snowblind
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  Rupture December 24, 2016 View on Amazon: Rupture

More New Books Coming Up

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• Partita by Barbara Kingsolver · May 6, 2027
• Emerald Lake Book 2 by Elsie Silver · May 11, 2027
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• Song for a Hard-Hit People by Beth Howard · May 11, 2027
• The Heretics by Joe Abercrombie · May 11, 2027
• Alistair Fall and the Restless Dead by Marianne Gordon · May 13, 2027

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