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Chiller Thrillers: suspense novels set in the snow and ice.

Kelley Armstrong – City of the Lost (ARM 2016) Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from an abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a town that takes in people who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada. First in a series.

Arnaldur Indridason - Operation Napoleon (ARN) In 1945, a German bomber crash-lands in Iceland during a blizzard. One of the officers sets off for help, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, only to disappear into the white vastness. In the present, the U.S. Army is clandestinely trying to remove the wreck of an airplane from an Icelandic glacier. Elias, a young Icelander, stumbles upon the excavation and then promptly disappears. Quentin Bates- Frozen Assets (BAT 2012) A body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? It's up to Officer Gunnhildur to find out. Her investigation uncovers a web of corruption connected to Iceland's business and banking communities. First in a series. Elizabeth Elo - North of Boston (ELO 2014) Pirio Kasparov has the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions. When the fishing boat she is on is rammed by a freighter, she is abandoned in the North Atlantic. She survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued, but her friend, Ned, is not so lucky. Compelled to look after Ned’s son, Pirio can't shake the l suspicion that the boat's sinking, and Ned's death, was no accident Cecilia Ekback - Wolf Winter (EKB 2015) Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija and her family arrive from Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow. As the snow gathers, the settlers' secrets are increasingly laid bare.

Tyrell Johnson - The Wolves of Winter (JOH 2018) Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn't help you survive in the endless white wilderness beyond the edges of a fallen world. Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of war and the spread of disease. Now shadows of the world before have found her tiny community in the Yukon, bringing with them dark secrets of the past. M. J. McGrath – White Heat (MCG 2012) Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from her community's Council of Elders. While Edie is leading tourists on a hunting expedition, one of them is shot and killed. The Council wants to call it an accident, but Edie and sergeant Derek Palliser suspect otherwise. First in a series. Jo Nesbo – The Redbreast (NES 2017) Detective embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in , Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots www.carverlib.org

in 's dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away--and disgraced old soldiers are being murdered, one by one. First in the Harry Hole series.

Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves (PEN 2018) 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is murdered. A local stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin toward the forest and the tundra beyond. One by one, searchers set out to follow the tracks across a desolate landscape before the snow covers the tracks for good. Ragnar Jonasson - Snowblind (RAG 2017) Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying in the snow, and a local author falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged into the heart of a community where he can trust no one. First in a series. Michael Ridpath - Where the Shadows Lie (RID) Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumors swirl of an ancient manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. Boston-raised detective Magnus Jonson, on loan to the Icelandic Police Force, is eager to work the case, a rare lethal crime for the island nation. But, as Magnus is about to discover, the past casts a long shadow in Iceland. First in a series. Olivier Truc - Forty Days Without Shadow (TRU 2014) Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people. But in the last hours of darkness, an ancient Sami drum is stolen. Hours later, a man is murdered. In a town fraught with tension it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes.

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir - Last Rituals (YRS) At university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family isn't convinced the right man is in custody. Attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, asked to investigate, finds that there are horrors hidden in the long, cold shadow of dark traditions. First in a series.