Praise for The Darkness:
"The Darkness is a bullet train of a novel, at once blazingly contemporary and Agatha-Christie old-fashioned. With prose as pure and crisp as Reykjavik snowcrust, Ragnar Jónasson navigates the treacherous narrative with a veteran’s hand. I reached the end with adrenalized anticipation, the final twist hitting me in the face. I dare you not to be shocked." —Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author


Praise for Snowblind (The Dark Iceland series)

"A classic crime story . . .first-rate and highly recommended." —Lee Child

“A modern Icelandic take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom...” —Ian Rankin

"Jonasson skillfully alternates points of view and shifts of time...The action builds to a shattering climax."--Publishers Weekly (boxed and starred)

"classically crafted whodunit" ... "Jonasson’s true gift is for describing the daunting beauty of the fierce setting, lashed by blinding snowstorms that smother the village in “a thick, white darkness” that is strangely comforting." —The New York Times

"... a chiller of a thriller ... It’s good enough to share shelf space with the works of Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Arnaldur Indridason, Iceland’s crime novel royalty." —The Washington Post

"the best sort of gloomy storytelling" —Chicago Tribune

“If a Golden Age crime novel was to emerge from a literary deep freeze then you’d hope it would read like this.” —Craig Robertson

“Seductive … an old-fashioned murder mystery with a strong central character and the fascinating background of a small Icelandic town cut off by snow. Ragnar does claustrophobia beautifully.” —Ann Cleeves

"Required reading"—New York Post

"Snowblind is morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons." —The Independent (UK)