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    The Island: A Thriller
    The Island: A Thriller
    The Island: A Thriller
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Island: A Thriller

    Written by Ragnar Jónasson

    Narrated by Amanda Redman

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    About this audiobook

    "Narrator Amanda Redman gives an adept performance as she takes on the various characters in this Icelandic thriller." — AudioFile Magazine

    The newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene has arrived with a superb followup to The Darkness.

    Shortlisted for the Crime Novel of the Year Award in Iceland
    Third Place, Novel of the Year Award 2016 in Iceland, selected by booksellers
    One of the bestselling novels in Iceland in 2016

    Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday—a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences.

    Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness.

    Ragnar Jónasson burst onto the American scene with Snowblind and Nightblind, the first two novels in the Ari Thor thriller series, and the praise was overwhelming. With The Darkness, he launched a new series featuring a completely new sleuth, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police department. The Island is the second audiobook in this series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 21, 2019
    ISBN9781250223999
    Author

    Ragnar Jónasson

    RAGNAR JÓNASSON is an international number one award-winning and bestselling author who has sold over four million books in thirty-six territories worldwide. He is the only Icelandic author to have entered the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Jónasson was born in Reykjavik, where he also teaches copyright law at Reyk­javík University. He has previously worked on radio and television, including as a TV news reporter, and, since the age of seventeen, has translated fourteen of Agatha Christie’s novels into Icelandic. He is the co-founder of the Reykjavík internation­al crime writing festival Iceland Noir. His critically ac­claimed international bestseller The Darkness is soon to be a major CBS Studios TV series, starring Lena Olin as Hulda, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Ragnar's novel, Outside, is in development as a feature film by Ridley Scott's production company.

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    • 3/5
      I really liked the book but it is a little hard to keep up with the timeline since this book happens before the events in the first book "The Darkness".

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    • 5/5
      Really good. Perhaps not a totally unexpected ending, but lots of twists and turns, great atmosphere and definitely some surprises!