Shelf Life: Feel the chill

It’s that time of the year again.  Baby, it’s cold outside!  So what better way to embrace winter than getting stuck into some Nordic crime?  Moody detectives?  Freezing vistas?  Remote communities hiding secrets?  Check, check, check.  Hunker down with the best of these winter chillers as you put on the fire, get cosy and embrace the hygge.
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The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö

Stunning debut novel set in the isolated west coast of Iceland. Hildur Rúnarsdottir  is the only police detective in this remote community and is trying to escape her own troubles through surfing and work.  A local man is brutally murdered and buried under an avalanche.  It’s up to Hildur and her trainee knitting mad partner, Jakob, to solve the mystery.  

The Cuckoo by Camilla Läckberg

The latest in Camilla Läckberg’s excellent detective series starring Patrik Hedström.  The Cuckoo is set in the coastal Swedish town of Fjällbacka where a series of gruesome crimes leave the local police unit utterly baffled.  Can the secret to unlocking the case lie in a historical crime?  Erica Falck, Hedström’s crime writer wife, believes that she may have found the answers.  

Ice Town by Will Dean

This is the sixth novel in a series that has won several crime writing awards, featuring deaf journalist, Tuva Moodyson.  When Tuva hears that a deaf teenager has gone missing in Esseberg, she knows she wants to help.  Esseberg lies on the other side of a mountain tunnel which closes at night, leaving the community completely isolated.  And as the body count mounts, it becomes clear that they are trapped with a killer in their midst.
 

Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen

This is the nail biting finale to the brilliant Department Q series by Danish writer, Jussi Adler-Olsen. The day after Christmas, Detective Carl Mørck is arrested and taken to Vestre Prison in Cophenhagen on murder and trafficking charges.  Someone wants to silence him and will go to any lengths to do so.  It’s up to his loyal team to find a way to clear his name and save his life. 

Snow Fall by Jørn Lier Horst

Jørn Lier Horst is a bestselling Norwegian crime writer and this is a welcome addition to his William Wisting series.  Astri Arctander, a true crime fanatic, has gone missing while investigating the murder of an Australian backpacker.  To solve the case, Wisting will have to enlist the help of a disparate group of online amateur detectives.  Can he stop the murderer before it's too late?  

Reykjavìk by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrìn Jakobsdottir

A chilling mystery co-written by Ragnar Jónasson and Icelandic Prime Minister, Katrìn Jakobsdottir. In 1956, a teenager girl called Lara goes missing on the island of Videy off the coast of Reykjavìk.  It is Iceland’s longest running unsolved case. Thirty years later, journalist Valur Robertsson, begins his own research into what happened to Lara.  But as the story reveals itself, it seems someone is determined to keep it hidden.