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Quentin Bates

    W niepokoju
    Frozen Out
    Chilled to the Bone
    Thin Ice
    Cold Breath
    Cold Malice
    • Cold Malice

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.2(15)Add rating

      A tense, atmospheric Icelandic murder mystery

      Cold Malice
    • Cold Breath

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.9(75)Add rating

      Gunnhildur reluctantly allows herself to be taken off police duties to act as bodyguard to a man with a price on his head . . . Hidden away in a secure house outside Reykjavík, Gunna and the high-profile stranger, a guest of the interiors minister, are thrown together - too close for comfort. They soon find they are neither as safe nor as carefully hidden as Gunna and her boss had thought. Conflicting glimpses of the man's past start to emerge as the press begin to sniff him out, as does another group with their own reasons for locating him. Gunna struggles to come to terms with protecting the life of a man who may have the lives of many on his conscience - or indeed may be the philanthropist he claims to be. Isolated together, the friction grows between Gunna and the foreign visitor, and she realises they are out of their depth as the trails lead from the house outside Reykjavík to Brussels, Russia and the Middle East.

      Cold Breath
    • Thin Ice

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(204)Add rating

      Snowed in with a couple of psychopaths for the winter... When two small-time crooks rob Reykjavik's premier drugs dealer, hoping for a quick escape to the sun, their plans start to unravel after their getaway driver fails to show. Tensions mount between the pair and the two women they have grabbed as hostages when they find themselves holed upcountry in an isolated hotel that has been mothballed for the season. Back in the capital, Gunnhildur, Eiríkur and Helgi find themselves at a dead end investigating what appear to be the unrelated disappearance of a mother, her daughter and their car during a day's shopping, and the death of a thief in a house fire. Gunna and her team are faced with a set of riddles but as more people are quizzed it begins to emerge that all these unrelated incidents are in fact linked. And at the same time, two increasingly desperate lowlifes have no choice but to make some big decisions on how to get rid of their accidental hostages...

      Thin Ice
    • Chilled to the Bone

      • 266 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.6(458)Add rating

      When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and dried as they seem. A Gunnhildur Gisladottir mystery set in Iceland.

      Chilled to the Bone
    • Frozen Out

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.2(75)Add rating

      Murder, corruption and financial meltdown in Iceland's rural backwaters. schovat popis

      Frozen Out
    • Drobiazgowy proces śledczy, wyraziste postacie i szczypta humoru w ponurym islandzkim krajobrazie to atuty powieści Batesa. S. J. Bolton Sierżant Gunna zostaje włączona do specjalnej jednostki policyjnej z siedzibą w stolicy kraju, Reykjaviku. Bo w spokojnej dotąd Islandii dochodzi ostatnio do zbyt wielu przestępstw. Może to wina kryzysu, który doprowadził do bankructwa nie tylko wielkie firmy, ale i zwykłych ludzi... Ucieczka z więzienia Długiego Ommiego wydaje się nie mieć nic wspólnego z kryzysem. Podobnie jak śmierć Svany Geirs, telewizyjnej celebrytki. Bo tymi dwiema sprawami zajmuje się teraz ekipa Gunny. Czemu jednak Ommi, bliski zwolnienia warunkowego, zdecydował się na tak głupi krok? A wyniki śledztwa pokazują, że dobrze znał Svanę... Ona sama od jakiegoś czasu żyła na koszt czterech prominentów, a każdy z nich, zagrożony skandalem, miał motyw, by zamordować kochankę... Quentin Bates (ur. 1962) jest Brytyjczykiem, który chciał oderwać się od codziennego życia i rok pomieszkać na Islandii. A skończyło się na... całej dekadzie lat osiemdziesiątych, nim w roku 1990 wrócił do Wielkiej Brytanii. Choć Islandię od tej pory odwiedza już regularnie każdego roku. Pośród licznych zajęć zajmował się dziennikarstwem, a stąd był już bliski krok do stworzenia serii kryminałów rozgrywających się na ukochanej Islandii - i to z policjantką w roli głównej.

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    • Cold Comfort

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(13)Add rating

      Detective Gunnhildur sets to investigate two seemingly separate cases, but uncovers some disturbing links. Top class crime writing set in Icleand. schovat popis

      Cold Comfort