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No hay crimen más atroz que aquel que no lo parece. Ni asesino más temible que el que te saluda cada mañana. El primer caso del joven policía Ari Thór. En Siglufjördur, un pequeño pueblo pesquero en el norte de Islandia, sólo accesible mediante un túnel, todos se conocen y nunca ocurre nada. Ari Thór, quien acaba de terminar la escuela de policía en Reykiavik, es enviado allí para su primer caso. Este sitio ideal en el que «nunca pasa nada», es hallado un cuerpo sin vida con indicios de haber sido asesinado durante sus primeros días en su puesto. Empieza así una investigación que cambiará para siempre la vida del joven Ari.

Una knows she is struggling to deal with her father's sudden, tragic suicide. She spends her nights drinking alone in Reykjavik, stricken with thoughts that she might one day follow in his footsteps. So when she sees an advert seeking a teacher for two girls in the tiny village of Skálar - population of 10 - on the storm-battered north coast of the island, she sees it as a chance to escape. But once she arrives, Una quickly realises nothing in city life has prepared her for this. The villagers are unfriendly. The weather is bleak.

Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lára spends the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later in August, 1986, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lara's case.

Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday - a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness.

When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge. It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating with the outside world. They are isolated, but they are not alone. As the night darkens, and fears intensify, an old tragedy gradually surfaces—one that forever changed the course of their friendship. Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends now find themselves in. And whether they will survive until morning . . .

It's 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever.

Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skálar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and get her life back on track.

Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland‘s most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lára's case.

The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice.

Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is sent to the isolated island of Elliðaey to investigate and soon finds haunting similarities with a previous case - a young woman found murdered 10 years ago in the equally desolate Westfjords. Is there a patient killer stalking these barren outposts? As Hulda navigates a sinister game constructed of smoke and mirrors she is convinced that no one is telling the truth, including those closest to her.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. A young woman, an asylum seeker from Russia, is found murdered on the seaweed-covered rocks of the Vatnsleysuströnd in Iceland. Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police is called to investigate this - the final case in her career before she is forced into retirement. When Hulda starts to ask questions, it isn't long before she realises that no-one can be trusted and that no-one is telling the whole truth.

In a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge. Miles from help, and knowing they will die out in the cold, they break in, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what's inside. With no other option, they are forced to spend a long and terrifying night in the cabin: watching as intently and silently as they themselves are being watched. As the night darkens, old secrets spill into the light, and tensions rise between the four friends.

Quatre amis. Une nuit. Tout le monde n'en sortira pas vivant… Au milieu de nulle part, en Islande, il n'y a aucun moyen de communiquer avec le monde extérieur. Les quatre amis se retrouvent isolés, certes, mais ils ne sont pas seuls.

Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he’s separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before Easter, a 19-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident.

Die Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Húlda-Trilogie von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autor Ragnar Jónasson. Ein altes Sanatorium. Ein entschlossener Ermittler. Ein ungelöstes Rätsel: Die Fortsetzung der großen HULDA-Trilogie von Ragnar Jónasson, in der der junge Kommissar Helgi in den Fokus rückt - jener junge Mann, für den Kommissarin Hulda Hermannsdóttir in "DUNKEL" ihren Schreibtisch räumen musste.

Der fünfte Band der Dark-Iceland-Serie von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autor Ragnar Jónasson. Ein verlassenes Haus am Ortsrand von Siglufjörður: Einer der beiden örtlichen Polizisten wird mitten in der Nacht kaltblütig ermordet. Warum war er um diese Uhrzeit dort draußen? Seinen Kollegen Ari trifft dieser Fall besonders. Und mit seinen Ermittlungen scheint er schlafende Hunde zu wecken, haben in diesem kleinen Ort doch mehr Leute etwas zu verbergen, als Ari geahnt hat. Nach und nach eröffnet sich ihm die ganze Tragödie eines menschlichen Lebens...

Der zweite Band der "Dark-Iceland"-Serie - erstmals im Hörbuch. Atemberaubend schön liegt das Fischerdörfchen Siglufjörður im rauen Norden Islands da. Doch die Idylle täuscht: Der Tod von Elías Freysson hat die Gemeinde zutiefst erschüttert, war er doch ein beliebter Freund, auf den immer gezählt werden konnte. Doch jemand muss ihn so sehr gehasst haben, dass er ihn mit einem Holzpfahl erschlug... Der junge Polizist Ari sieht sich während der Ermittlungen plötzlich mit einem Wirrsal aus Menschenhandel, Willkür und Gewalt konfrontiert.

Winter in einem abgelegenen Fischerdörfchen im Norden von Island. Eine junge Frau liegt blutend und bewusstlos im Schnee. Dann kommt ein alter Schriftsteller durch einen Sturz im Theater ums Leben. Ari, der neue Polizist im Ort, erkennt schnell, dass er erst die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit aufklären muss, um die Fälle der Gegenwart lösen zu können. Doch niemand will ihm helfen – und er kann niemandem trauen.

Zwei Tage vor Weihnachten: Die Leiche einer jungen Frau wird unterhalb der Klippen im Norden Islands gefunden – genau an der Stelle, an der vor 25 Jahren ihre tote Mutter und ihre jüngere Schwester gelegen hatten. Als Ari, Polizist in Siglufjörður, den Tatort inspiziert, stellt sich bald die Frage: War es ein Unfall, oder wurde die junge Frau gestoßen? Was wissen die letzten verbliebenen Einwohner des Dorfes? Als Schneefall einsetzt, der Dorf und Klippen in einem unwirklichen Licht erscheinen lässt, kommt Ari einer unfassbaren Tragödie auf die Spur.

Ein abgelegener Bauernhof in einem schwer zugänglichen Seitental von Siglufjörður im Norden Islands: Dorthin verschlägt es in den 1950-er Jahren zwei Ehepaare. Doch nach nur wenigen Monaten stirbt eine der beiden Frauen unter rätselhaften Umständen. Sechzig Jahre später taucht ein Foto auf, das zeigt: Die vier waren damals nicht allein dort draußen. Ari, Polizist in Siglufjörður, findet viele Ungereimtheiten. Eine befreundete Journalistin aus Reykjavík, die selbst in einem komplizierten Fall von Kindesentführung und Mord recherchiert, hilft ihm bei der Suche.