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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 · 156,697 ratings · 17,455 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 27,251 ratings — published 2010	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) 3.54 avg rating — 21,766 ratings — published 2015 — 83 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 — 12,688 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 — 12,962 ratings — published 2022 — 4 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 — 11,005 ratings — published 2017 — 67 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 — 10,292 ratings — published 2014 — 47 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
	Blackout (Dark Iceland, #2) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 10,361 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Rupture (Dark Iceland, #3) 3.79 avg rating — 8,716 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Whiteout (Dark Iceland, #5) by Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author), Quentin Bates (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 7,299 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
	Winterkill (Dark Iceland, #6) 3.87 avg rating — 7,190 ratings — published 2020 — 34 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 — 71,151 ratings

Temačna Islandija (6 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author),

David Warriner (Translator)

3.69 avg rating — 71,097 ratings

Siglufjörður (6 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author),

David Warriner (Translator)

3.68 avg rating — 61,233 ratings

Hidden Iceland (4 books)
by

Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author)

3.70 avg rating — 45,959 ratings

Helgi Trilogy (2 books)
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Ragnar Jónasson (Goodreads Author)

3.64 avg rating — 10,857 ratings

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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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“It had rained without a break since the middle of the afternoon, when the skies had finally started to clear. Ari Thór didn’t make a habit of going to the theatre, but still understood the excitement behind a good production. Tension in the air could sometimes be palpable, but never as overwhelming as it was that Friday evening in the Siglufjördur theatre. But this time there was no production taking place and the auditorium was empty. What he and Tómas – both of them on duty that night – could not avoid was the body. There was no doubt they were looking at a corpse; but Tómas still checked for a pulse”
― Ragnar Jónasson, Snowblind

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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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