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On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit.

At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony.

Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he’s separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before Easter, a 19-year-old local girl falls to her death from the balcony of a house on the main street. A perplexing entry in her diary suggests that this may not be an accident.

Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday - a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness.

When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one and secrets and lies are a way of life. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts as Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness - blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose.

Ari Thór Arason is a local policeman whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland - where no one locks their doors - continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman - shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Thór to piece together a puzzle that involves tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward.

1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Then one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all. In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight.

The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice.

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, 25 years earlier....

Vom Ende zum Anfang – die außergewöhnlich erzählte Thriller-Serie um Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Wie die Geschichte um Kommissarin Hulda beginnt ... Island, November 1980: Die junge, unerschrockene Polizistin Hulda Hermannsdóttir erhält eines Abends einen Anruf von ihrem Vorgesetzten. In einer abgelegenen Jagdhütte im Norden des Landes wurde ein Teddybär gefunden – möglichweise ein Hinweis auf einen seit langer Zeit ungelösten Fall eines vermissten Kindes. Hulda macht sich sofort auf den Weg in das abgelegene und dünn besiedelten Tal.

Vom Ende zum Anfang – die außergewöhnlich erzählte Thriller-Serie um Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Wie die Geschichte um Kommissarin Hulda beginnt ... Island, November 1980: Die junge, unerschrockene Polizistin Hulda Hermannsdóttir erhält eines Abends einen Anruf von ihrem Vorgesetzten. In einer abgelegenen Jagdhütte im Norden des Landes wurde ein Teddybär gefunden – möglichweise ein Hinweis auf einen seit langer Zeit ungelösten Fall eines vermissten Kindes. Hulda macht sich sofort auf den Weg in das abgelegene und dünn besiedelten Tal.

When a deadly snowstorm strikes the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in a small, abandoned hunting lodge. It is in the middle of nowhere and there's no way of communicating with the outside world. They are isolated, but they are not alone. As the night darkens, and fears intensify, an old tragedy gradually surfaces—one that forever changed the course of their friendship. Those dark memories could hold the key to the mystery the friends now find themselves in. And whether they will survive until morning . . .

Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors - accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik - with a past that he’s unable to leave behind.

En Siglufjördur, un pequeño pueblo pesquero en el norte de Islandia, sólo accesible mediante un túnel, todos se conocen y nunca ocurre nada. Ari Thór, quien acaba de terminar la escuela de policía en Reykiavik, es enviado allí para su primer caso. Este sitio ideal en el que «nunca pasa nada», es hallado un cuerpo sin vida con indicios de haber sido asesinado durante sus primeros días en su puesto. Empieza así una investigación que cambiará para siempre la vida del joven Ari.

It's 1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjordur. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couple may not have been alone on the fjord after all....

Durante una brillante noche de verano, un hombre es brutalmente golpeado hasta la muerte a orillas de un tranquilo fiordo en el norte de Islandia. Cuando el sol de medianoche se transforma en oscuridad debido a una nube de cenizas proveniente de una erupción volcánica, la joven reportera Ísrún abandona Reikiavik para investigar el suceso por su cuenta.

1983. Un ancien hôpital à Akureyri, petite ville du nord de l’Islande, autrefois sanatorium pour traiter les tuberculeux, est le théâtre d’un événement dramatique : une infirmière est retrouvée sauvagement assassinée dans son bureau, les deux doigts de sa main droite coupés. L’inspectrice Hulda (l’héroïne de la trilogie La Dame de Reykjavík) et son collègue Sverrir sont chargés de l’enquête. Seules quatre autres personnes étaient présentes dans le bâtiment au moment du meurtre. Quatre suspects. Quelques jours plus tard, le médecin en chef est lui aussi retrouvé mort au pied du bâtiment.

Ari Thor returns to investigate a chilling series of crimes that are rooted in tragic events from the past. Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers continue to haunt him.

Winter in einem abgelegenen Fischerdörfchen im Norden von Island. Eine junge Frau liegt blutend und bewusstlos im Schnee. Dann kommt ein alter Schriftsteller durch einen Sturz im Theater ums Leben. Ari, der neue Polizist im Ort, erkennt schnell, dass er erst die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit aufklären muss, um die Fälle der Gegenwart lösen zu können. Doch niemand will ihm helfen – und er kann niemandem trauen.

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykjavik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Dark, terrifying and complex, Blackout is an exceptional atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers.