THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES **Sunday Times BOOK OF THE MONTH** âJónasson is an automatic must-read for me ⦠possibly the best Scandi writer working todayâ Lee Child âIs this the best crime writer in the world today? ⦠Truly a master of his genreâ The Times 'The engaging Ari Thor returns in this darkly claustrophobic tale. Perfect mid-winter reading' Ann Cleeves âA stunningly atmospheric story. Ari Thór Arason returns in this pitch-perfect, beautifully paced crime novel ⦠Ragnar Jónasson is at the top of his game, and a master of the genreâ Will Dean ______________ A blizzard is approaching Siglufjörður, and that can only mean one thing⦠When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer ⦠The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international bestselling Dark Iceland series. Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but heâs 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 nineteen-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, and when an old man in a local nursing home writes âShe was murderedâ again and again on the wall of his room, there is every suggestion that something more sinister lies at the heart of her deathâ¦Â As the extreme weather closes in, cutting the power and access to Siglufjörður, Ari Thór must piece together the puzzle to reveal a horrible truth ⦠one that will leave no one unscathed. Chilling, claustrophobic and disturbing, Winterkill is a startling addition to the multi-million-copy bestselling Dark Iceland series and cements Ragnar Jónasson as one of the most exciting and acclaimed authors in crime fiction. _______________ Praise for Ragnar Jónasson âA sinister twisted tragedyâ The Times âIf Iceland missed out on the Golden Age of crime writing, the country â and Jonasson â is certainly making up for it nowâ Sunday Times âOutstanding ⦠Series fans will be sorry to see the last of Ari Thórâ Publishers Weekly âJonassonâs Dark Iceland novels are instant classicsâ William Ryan âJónassonâs punchy, straightforward prose is engrossing â¦Â A diverting mysteryâ Foreword Reviews 'Consummate crime writing ⦠poignant and disturbingâ New Books Magazine âChilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense' Ian Rankin 'A tense, gripping read' Anthony Horowitz 'Icelandic noir of the highest order, with Jónasson's atmospheric sense of place, and his heroine's unerring humanity shining from every page' Daily Mail âRagnar Jónasson writes with a chilling, poetic beautyâ Peter James âTraditional and beautifully finessedâ Independent âJónassonâs true gift is for describing the daunting beauty of the fierce settingâ New York Times âA chiller of a thrillerâ Washington Post âJónassonâs books have breathed new life into Nordic noirâ Express