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Erlendur Sveinsson (Fictitious character) Fiction Espionage Drama Iceland Reykjavík Judicial error Drama Millionaires Drama Murder Investigation Fiction Reykjavík (Iceland) Fiction Terrorists Drama Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Fictitious character) Fiction Women lawyers Iceland Reykjavík FictionSummary: A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONEArnaldur Indridason
Summary: On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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Summary: In a flat near Reykjavik city center, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood although there are no signs of a break-in or any struggle. A purple shawl, found under the bed, gives off a strong and unusual aroma. A vial of narcotics found in the victim's pocket among other clues soon lead Erlendur's colleagues down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARNKristín Eiríksdóttir
Summary: "Elín Jónsdóttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjavík, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen Álfsdóttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in Elín, but she has also stirred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRIÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Summary: When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue, a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he₂d known in the sixties when they were students in London, both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLASummary: After their mother is burned at the stake for withchcraft, Margit and her sister, Katla, flee across Iceland. Reaching a remote farm, Katla casts a spell on its young widower, Johann, and soon the two are wed, to the dismay of his suspicious son, Jonas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUNArnaldur Indriðason
Summary: The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavík's underworld. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband, and an unexplained death. When a homeless man he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARNArnaldur Indria̧son
Summary: At a grand Reykjavik hotel, the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children's party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusive murder investigation are not what he needs. As Detective Erlendur...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNSummary: This pocket-sized travel guide to Reykjavík is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around the destination. It covers top attractions like the Blue Lagoon, as well as hidden gems, including the Icelandic Punk Museum. Our Reykjavík guide book will save you time and enhance your exploration of this fascinating city. This Reykjavík travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
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Summary: "Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNArnaldur Indridason
Summary: "A man is found murdered in a small apartment in Reykjavík, shot in the head with a pistol. The police's attention is immediately drawn to the foreign soldiers who are on every street corner in the summer of 1941. So begins officers Flóvent and Thorson's investigation, which will lead them down a path darker than either of them expected, and force them to reckon with their own demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNSummary: When Icelandic actor, stand-up comic and radio shock-jock Jón Gnarr decides to found the mock-serious Best Party and run for mayor of Reykjavik in order to ridicule the status quo who were in charge when his country went into economic free-fall, little did he know how the voting republic would react to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus World 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GNASummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFSummary: When the team's most popular and sexy soccer star admits he is gay, he is suspended by the team. He joings a gang of other gay players, and the Eleven Men Out keep winning games on their march to the championship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products, Inc. 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELEArnaldur Indridason
Summary: Downtrodden detective Erlendur and his team must once again look into Reykjavik's hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Alive with tension and atmosphere, and disturbingly real, this is an outstanding continuation of the Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS INDSummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPEAuður A. Ólafsdóttir
Summary: "Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysess and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: When Detective Erlender places her in charge during his leave of absence, Elinborg tackles a disturbing serial rapist case that has the local police racing against time to prevent another attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNSummary: Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoSummary: In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RAMSummary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGYrsa Sigurdardóttir
Summary: When contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated region on the coast of Greenland, Thóra Gudmundsdóttir's investigations reveal another recent disappearance before she encounters unexpected resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YRSYrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Summary: "A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YRSYrsa Sigurdardottir
Summary: In the aftermath of a young woman's murder at a farmhouse-turned-health resort, lawyer Thora finds the investigation complicated by a rumor that the site is haunted, a concept that takes a toll on Thora's views of reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009