Martina Kašparová Livres

"A man, wearing his daughter's wedding ring, is found in front of his fireplace, a bullet hole in his chest. A funeral director searches desperately for his brother - a man who doesn't seem to be missed. A woman struggles to protect her children and her life as her husband turns ever more dangerous. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht believe that these three cases are totally unrelated ... until they uncover a connection between these three people that changes everything. Soon Bergman and Recht are pulled into an escalating series of events where old sins return to haunt all involved. And someone is leaving them taunting messages ... but who, and why?"--Publisher

"How far would you go to protect your family? Sophie Brinkmann was once an ordinary woman. A dedicated nurse, a grieving widow, a single mother to a beloved teenage son. And then she fell in love with a major crime lord. When he was left in a coma after a brutal attack by his rivals, it was Sophie who had to take control of his empire and negotiate with vengeful mobsters, cunning detectives and charismatic arms dealers. But now their rivals are closing in on them and Sophie is caught up in a game where the rules are constantly changing, where loyalty and friendship are meaningless. If she and her son are to get out of this alive, she has to find her inner strength - and her inner darkness."

In the days leading up to Christmas, Domhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Domhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Domhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. For even in the depths of an Icelandic winter, new life will find a way

A meditative, immersive take on the weather around us

Co všechno se může stát, když se probudí aktivní sopka? Poloostrovem Reykjanes cloumají zemětřesení a probouzejí k životu osm staletí dřímající sopky. Nikdo je nezná tak dobře jako vulkanoložka Anna Arnardóttir, která si musí poradit s vůbec nejtěžším úkolem své dosavadní kariéry. Mezitím však ztrácí kontrolu nad svým na pohled krásným a dokonalým…

1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland.The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't.The couple should never have let him in. But they did.An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever . . .

A funny, wistful and utterly beguiling novel about a man whose life is falling apart, and how he learns to put it back together

"It's an unremarkable life, I guess, nothing special. I'm in my thirties, I work part-time in a video store in Stockholm, most of my friends are busy with their families, I live alone. I suppose you'd say I have an ordinary lifea But I love this city, and even though my flat is small it suits me, I'm comfortable here. In the summer, the sun shines in through my windows at just the right angle and I can hear all the sounds of summer life down in the street. And there's a really good ice-cream stall just near my building, which sells my favourite flavours. So, ordinary maybe, but happy. Yes, I think it's fair to say I'm a happy man. And isn't that enough? A love story and a charming, surreal and funny tale about happiness, The Invoice will change the way you see your life."

Snjór. La neige, en islandais. Celle qui tombe sans discontinuer sur la ville la plus au nord de l'Islande, Siglufjördur. Un village de pêcheurs auquel on ne peut accéder que par un tunnel étroit, creusé à même la montagne. Ari Thór, qui vient de terminer l'école de police à Reykjavik, y est envoyé pour sa première affectation. Sa fiancée refuse de le suivre dans ce trou paumé. Siglufjördur, la ville où il ne se passe rien, où personne ne ferme jamais sa porte à clef. Mais voilà : une jeune femme est retrouvée morte, à moitié nue dans la neige ; un vieil écrivain renommé fait une chute mortelle dans le théâtre local... Ari Thor se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une petite communauté où chacun tient l'autre par ses mensonges et ses secrets. Une avalanche et des tempêtes de neiges incessantes ferment temporairement l'accès du tunnel. La nuit polaire ne réserve plus une seule minute de jour... Un effroyable sentiment de claustrophobie submerge peu à peu Ari, que viennent également tourmenter des résurgences de son passé. L'étau se resserre autour du policier, aveuglé par la neige et les faux-semblants, sombrant dans sa propre noirceur. Angoissant, entêtant, Snjór est le premier roman de la série Dark Iceland.

Una is devastated after the suicide of her father. So when she sees an advert seeking a teacher for two girls in Skalar on the storm-battered north coast of the island, she sees it as a chance to escape. But once she arrives, Una quickly realises nothing in city life has prepared her for this