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Aug 12, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Theodore H. Schwartz |Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir |Maribeth Fischer
The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 20th from Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3WKWo8QA Season of Perfect Happiness fundamentally questions what makes a “good” mother, with a propulsive and heartrending portrayal of one woman’s efforts to find her voice. Ten years after an unspeakable tragedy caused Claire to flee her hometown in Delaware, she finally feels content. She has a quiet, tidy life in Wisconsin, a place she picked at random for its shape on a map.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
the-star.co.ke | Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, are refusing to work on Tuesday. The "kvennafri", or women's day off, has been called in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence. Fields in which women form the majority of workers, such as healthcare and education, are especially affected. The planned walkout marks the first full-day women's strike since 1975.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
There aren’t many writers these days who understand the distinct landscape of Iceland like Ragnar Jónasson. He already has made a career out of penning Icelandic mysteries told in the style of one of his heroes, Dame Agatha Christie, to whom this novel is dedicated. This time, he teams up with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland, for what may be his finest novel to date. Spanning half a century, REYKJAVÍK is a slow-burn mystery that never disappoints.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
What happened to Lára?
Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland‘s most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
Home > Books > Book Review: ‘Reykjavik: A Novel’ By Ragnar Jónasson And Katrín Jakobsdóttir August 9, 20232023-08-09T10:16:24-05:00 In 1956 Lára, who was 15 years old, vanished from the island of Videy, a small island, off the coast of Reykjavík. A young cop was assigned to the case, but never found any clues or what happened to her. Now 30 years later, Valur, a reporter has been writing stories, and looking into the case again, and it’s become big-time news. He finds some small leads, and...
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Brooke Robinson |Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir |Ritu Mukerji
Burt Solomon. Forge, $32.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9272-5What if President Andrew Johnson’s 1875 death was the result of a deliberate poisoning instead of natural causes? Solomon poses that provocative question in his entertaining third mystery featuring Lincoln-aide-turned-reporter John Hay (after 2019’s The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt).
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Stephanie Barron |Brooke Robinson |Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
Stephanie Barron. Soho Crime, $27.99 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-505-5Barron’s poignant 15th and final whodunit featuring Jane Austen as a sleuth (after 2022’s Jane and the Year Without a Summer) is set in 1817, the year of the author’s death. Suffering from an unknown ailment and determined not to brood on the ravages of her declining health, Jane agrees to investigate the case of 16-year-old Winchester College student William Heathcote, a friend of her nephew, Edward.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Brooke Robinson |Ragnar Jonasson |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir |Ritu Mukerji
Danielle Arceneaux. Pegasus Crime, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63936-483-1Arceneaux’s delightful debut cozy introduces Glory Broussard of Lafayette, La., a self-described “old, fat, black woman” whose weeks revolve around churchgoing and her gig as a small-time bookie. One Sunday, while she’s crunching numbers at her usual table in CC’s Coffeehouse, Glory strikes up a conversation with police officer Beau Landry, whom she used to babysit.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
visir.is | Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir
Sjálfbær þróun er eitt mikilvægasta viðfangsefni okkar tíma. Hún snýst um að við ofnýtum ekki auðlindir jarðar, svo að það komi niður á lífsgæðum komandi kynslóða. Á síðustu fimmtíu árum hefur hallað mjög á ógæfuhliðina í þessum efnum. Árið 1970 dugði ársskammtur af auðlindum jarðar í eitt ár, þannig að ekki var gengið á höfuðstólinn. Núna er staðan hins vegar sú að árskammtur af auðlindum er uppurinn í byrjun ágúst og gæðin því ofnýtt sem því nemur.
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Feb 23, 2023 | 
unesco.org | Audrey Azoulay |Katrín Jakobsdóttir |Katrín Jakóbsdottir |Felipe Neto
The Director-General of UNESCO pointed out the proliferation of regulatory initiatives - at least 55 countries are working on these. But she advocated a coherent, global approach, based on human rights. “If these regulatory initiatives are developed in isolation, with each country working in their own corner, they are doomed to fail. Information disruption is by definition a global problem, so our reflections must take place at the global scale,” she said.
