Hi everyone,
Super SUPER excited today!!! I get to do an exclusive cover reveal for you guys today, and I couldn’t be happier!!!! Everyone knows how much I LOVE the Dark Iceland series, it’s been a consistent favourite since I first discovered the books. Imagine my joy when I got an email from the wonderful Karen Sullivan at Orenda Books asking would I like to reveal the cover for Whiteout…
HELL YES!!!!
I’m going to make you guys wait a little bit longer to see it though. Here’s all of the important information about Whiteout…
About the book:
Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath
the cliffs of the deserted village of Kálfshamarvík. Did she jump, or
did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and
the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop?
With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thór
Arason discovers that the victim’s mother and young sister also lost
their lives in this same spot, twenty-five years earlier. As the dark
history and its secrets of the village are unveiled, and the death toll
begins to rise, the Siglufjordur detectives must race against the
clock to find the killer, before another tragedy takes place.
Dark, chilling and complex, Whiteout is a haunting, atmospheric and
stunningly plotted thriller from one of Iceland’s bestselling crime
writers.
Pub date: 1 November 2017
About the author:
Ragnar Jónasson is the author of the international bestselling Dark Iceland series. His debut Snowblind went to number one in the kindle charts shortly after publication, and Nightblind, Blackout and Rupture soon followed suit, hitting the number one spot in five countries, and the series being sold in 15 countries and for TV. Ragnar was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he continues to work as 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. Ragnar is a member of the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) and set up its first overseas chapter in Reykjavik. He is also the co-founder of the international crime-writing festival Iceland Noir. From the age of 17, Ragnar translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. He has appeared on festival panels worldwide, and lives in Reykjavik with his wife and young daughters.
About the translator:
Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the gap year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language, a new profession as a seaman and a family before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver, teacher, netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism largely by accident. He has been the technical editor of a nautical magazine for many years, all the while keeping a close eye on his second home in Iceland, before taking a sidestep into writing fiction. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out, Cold Steal, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, and Cold Comfort), which have been published in the UK, USA, Germany, Holland, Finland and Poland. He has translated a great deal of news and technical material into English from Icelandic, as well as one novel (Gudlaugur Arason’s Bowline).
Ok, even I don’t want to wait any longer!!!
I am beyond THRILLED to be able to share the cover for Ragnar Jónasson’s forthcoming book, Whiteout….
I don’t know about you guys, but I think this cover is brilliant! I cannot wait to add this to my collection!
