OMA BOOKS

1963: a young woman moves to Reykjavik to be a writer, not a beauty queen.

1918: a queer teenager in Reykjavik lives for the cinema as the Spanish flu strikes.

A German student is found murdered at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

A Reykjavik murder leads Erlendur to an old rape case and a nation’s gene bank.

A slacker lives with his mother in downtown Reykjavik, until her girlfriend moves in.

A young man’s slide into schizophrenia, from a Reykjavik childhood to the Kleppur asylum.

A country girl works as a maid in Reykjavik as Iceland debates a US air base.

1829: a farm family in the north of Iceland must lodge a woman condemned to death.

A young policeman takes a post in Siglufjörður, a snowbound town in Iceland’s far north.