Blackout

About Ragnar Jonasson

Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jonasson was born in Reykjavik and currently works as a lawyer while teacher copyright law at the Reykjavik University Law School. In the past he's worked in TV and radio including as a news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Before embarking on a writing career Ragnar translated fourteen Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic and has had several short stories published in German English and Icelandic literary magazines. Ragnar set up the first overseas chapter of the CWA (Crime Writers' Association) in Reykjavik and is co-founder of the International crime-writing festival Iceland Noir. Ragnar's debut thriller Snowblind became an almost instant bestseller when it was published in June 2015 with Nightblind (winner of the Dead Good Reads Most Captivating Crime in Translation Award) and then Blackout and Rupture following soon after. To date Ragnar Jonasson has written five novels in the Dark Iceland series which has been optioned for TV by On the Corner. He lives in Reykjavik with his wife and two daughters. Visit him on Twitter @ragnarjo or at ragnarjonasson.com Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons the gap year stretched to become a gap decade during which time he went native in the north of Iceland acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver teacher netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out Cold Steal Chilled to the Bone Winterlude Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series.