Part of Series
Kvöld eitt í nóvember árið 1980 fær lögreglukonan Hulda Hermannsdóttir símtal frá yfirmanni sínum. Í veiðihúsi hefur fundist bangsi sem kann að varpa ljósi á tuttugu ára gamalt barnshvarf sem aldrei upplýstist. Hulda tekst þegar í stað á hendur ferðalag norður í Blöndudal, í fámenna sveit þar sem henni er misjafnlega tekið. Hulda er forspil að hinum rómaða þríleik Ragnars Jónassonar um Huldu Hermannsdóttur, Dimma, Drungi og Mistur. Bækurnar hafa farið sannkallaða sigurför um heiminn og haustið 2024 var frumsýnd sjónvarpsþáttaröð eftir fyrstu bókinni í leikstjórn Lasse Hallström þar sem Lena Olin fer með aðalhlutverkið.
Author
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, Portugal, Croatia, Armenia and Iceland. Ragnar was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he works as a writer and a lawyer. He also teaches copyright law at Reykjavik University and has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV-news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. He is also the co-founder of the Reykjavik international crime writing festival Iceland Noir. From the age of 17, Ragnar translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. Ragnar has also had short stories published internationally, including in the distinguished Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the US, the first stories by an Icelandic author in that magazine. He has appeared on festival panels worldwide, and lives in Reykjavik.
