- Keyword = nordic noir
-
REYKJAVIK NIGHTS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A prequel to the author's award winning series set in Reykjavik, and featuring Detective Inspector Erlendur. In this novel Erlendur is a young patrolman in the traffic division, but when a homeless man he knew is found murdered, and a young woman goes missing at the same time, he investigates both cases on his own. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250048424.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (remainder dot., toning to the pages)
Book ID: 83063More details Price: $17.50 -
STRANGE SHORES: An Inspector Erlendur Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86356More details Price: $19.50 -
REYKJAVIK NIGHTS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A prequel to the author's award winning series set in Reykjavik, and featuring Detective Inspector Erlendur. In this novel Erlendur is a young patrolman in the traffic division, but when a homeless man he knew is found murdered, and a young woman goes missing at the same time, he investigates both cases on his own. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250048424.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87689More details Price: $21.50 -
SNOWBLIND.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller set in Siglufjodur, a quiet fishing village in far northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors, and which in winter is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Features Ari Thor, former theology student, now a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. SIGNED on the title page. Translated by Quentin Bates. Includes a brief excerpt from the next book in the series. First book in the Dark Iceland series. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250096074.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75572More details Price: $65.00 -
SNOWBLIND.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's second novel, a thriller set in Siglufjodur, a quiet fishing village in far northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors, and which in winter is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Features Ari Thor, former theology student, now a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. Translated by Quentin Bates. Includes a brief excerpt from the next book in the series. First book in the Dark Iceland series. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250096074.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 77264More details Price: $45.00 -
INVISIBLE MURDER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second title in the series featuring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg who becomes caught up in a dangerous situation when she agrees to visit some Hungarian Gypsies who are living illegally in an abandoned garage and are mysteriously ill. Translated from the Danish by Tara Chace. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-1616951702.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74609More details Price: $19.50 -
DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third title in the series featuring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg who becomes caught up in the dangers facing refugees - in this case, a young Ukrainian mother, accused of murdering her abusive fiancee, who will do anything to protect her daughter. Translated from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1616953041.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 86603More details Price: $19.50 -
THE PREACHER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pegasus Crime, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Swedish author to appear in English - a story of religious fanactism, family feuds and murder set in the small fishing community of Fjallbacka, featuring Patrick Hedstrom. . Translated by Steven T. Murray. 419 pp. ISBN: 978-1605981734.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76362More details Price: $18.50 -
THE PYRAMID: And Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format)
New York: The New Press, (2008). First edition - An advance excerpt containing only TWO of five short mysteries - 'Wallander's First Case' introduces us to the 21 year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation and in 'The Man on the Beach' he is on the brink of middle age trying to understand how a man was murdered while riding alone in the back of a taxi. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson. 138 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76490More details Price: $17.50 -
THE MAN WHO SMILED.
Edition: Limited, signed first UK edition.
Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Kurt Wallender novel, translated by Laurie Thompson. Numbered 28 out of 80, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by John Harvey. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. ISBN: 1-873567588.
Condition: Fine in fine original clear mylar dust jacket.
Book ID: 71196More details Price: $150.00 -
THE WHITE LIONESS.
Edition: Limited, signed first UK edition.
Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early Wallender novel, originally published in 1993, one which links a murder in Ystad to South Africa where Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. Translated by Laurie Thompson. Numbered 76 out of 90, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by Minette Walters. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. ISBN: 1-873567588.
Condition: Fine in fine original clear mylar dust jacket.
Book ID: 71187More details Price: $175.00 -
BORKMANN'S POINT: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although this is not the first novel featuring Van Veeteren, it was his first book to be published in the United States. Winner the Swedish Crime Writer's Best Novel Award in 1994 for this work. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. A well-written and absorbing policier which describes the search for a serial killer, an ax murderer, in a small seaside town, it is uncommon as a Nordic mystery in that it is set in a fictional country, which is not quite Sweden or any other Northern European country. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-375421963.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 82851More details Price: $18.50 -
ANY MEANS NECESSARY: A Leona Lindberg Thriller.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75679More details Price: $28.00 -
MY SOUL TO TAKE: A Novel of Iceland.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thora Gudmundsdottir, one which combines long-buried secrets from the World War II era with murder at a coastal resort. Translated from the Icelandic By Bernard Scudder and Anna Yates. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0061143380.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80876More details Price: $35.00 -
WHO WATCHETH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: SOHO Press, (2016). An Inspector Irene Huss investigation, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. 291pp plus 15 pp preview of 'Protected by the Shadows.". ISBN: 978-1616958657.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72192More details Price: $12.00