Quentin Bates: 12 books

Detective Gunnhildur Gísladóttir, beter bekend als Gunna, is nog maar recentelijk van haar functie in het landelijke dorpje Hvalvík gepromoveerd naar Reykjavík, waar ze aan het hoofd staat van de afdeling Ernstige Delicten. Reykjavík is net opgeschrikt door een moord, een reeks mishandelingen...

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...

It's a bitter winter morning when Sergeant Gunnhildur is called to the scene of a violent killing in an abandoned industrial unit. Gunna and her sidekick Helgi quickly find that the battered victim had no shortage of enemies. The case takes Gunna around Reykjavík's darker side and Helgi to...

A businessman is found dead—tied to a bed in an upscale hotel—and an Iceland police sergeant investigates: “This procedural series [is] a standout” (Kirkus Reviews). When Sgt. Gunnhildur Gísladóttir of the local police force is called in to investigate the death of a man found tied...

It's the tail end of a hot summer when half of Reykjavík is on holiday and the other half wishes it was. Things are quiet when a man is reported missing from his home in the suburbs. As Gunna and Helgi investigate, it becomes clear that the missing man had secrets of his own that lead to a sinister...

Starring a female police detective and set in Iceland, “this procedural series [is] a standout” (Kirkus Reviews). Officer Gunnhildur Gísladóttir, recently promoted from her post in rural Iceland to Reykjavík’s Serious Crime Unit, is tasked with hunting down escaped convict Long Ommi,...

A successful housebreaker who leaves no traces and no clues as he strips Reykjavík homes of their valuables has been a thorn in the police's side for months. But when one night the thief breaks into the wrong house, he finds himself caught in a trap as the stakes are raised far beyond anything he...

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, a sardonic female cop, to find out. Her investigation uncovers a web of corruption connected to Iceland’s business and banking communities....

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....

The discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels the village of Hvalvik's police sergeant Gunnhildur into deep waters. Although under pressure to deal with the matter quickly, she is suspicious that the man's death was no accident...

'Grimmig als de IJslandse winter... een must voor de lezers van Indridason!' - S. J. Bolton Gunnhildur Gisladottir, beter bekend als Gunna, staat aan het hoofd van het politieteam in het dorpje Hvlalvik in het zuidwesten van IJsland. Gunna is toegewijd en getalenteerd, maar omdat ze een vrouw 'van...

'Een must voor de lezers van Indridason!' - S.J. Bolton 'Voor de lezers van Hjorth Rosenfeldt, Hakan Nesser en Camilla Läckberg... een aanrader!' - Sjra Vries, Bruna Horst Wat als routineonderzoek begint, ontwikkelt zich tot een levensbedreigende politiezaak Het derde deel in de serie rondom politie-inspecteur...