Books like Cold comfort by Quentin Bates

Detective Erlendur investigates a shallow grave, uncovering hidden tales of Reykjavik's past.

A brilliant mystery in Iceland, following a sudden drop in a lake's water level and a man's haunting presence.

When a dark‑skinned boy is found murdered in a Reykjavik block of flats, detective Erlendur must navigate Iceland’s tense race relations, an anti‑immigration teacher, and a shadowy paedophile to uncover the truth.

In Iceland’s Westfjords, three friends renovating a crumbling house uncover hidden horrors, while a doctor investigates a doctor’s granddaughter’s suicide, and the two cases collide to reveal a chilling secret.

"On a cold January morning in 1973, inside a stately old house in Reykjavik, blood pools around Jacob Kieler Junior from a fatal gunshot wound to his chest. Detective Johann Palsson, an expert in the emerging field of forensics, is called to the scene and soon discovers something more unsettling than the murder itself: the deceased's father, Jacob Kieler Senior, a railroad engineer, was shot to death in the same living room nearly thirty years earlier. The case was officially closed as a botched robbery. Palsson soon uncovers diaries that portray Kieler Senior as an ambitious man dedicated to bringing the railroad to Iceland no matter the cost. Sensing a deeper and darker mystery afoot, the detective and his colleagues piece together through the elder Kieler's diaries a family history rich with deceit"--Publisher.

Sergeant Gunnhildur Giacute;sladottir investigates a suspicious death in a Reykjavik hotel, uncovering ties to a returning gangster and a clandestine bondage society, turning a simple case into a perilous police probe.

Two brothers from a remote Icelandic farm face a murder investigation that forces them to confront a violent past, as forensic evidence is tampered with and family secrets threaten their lives.

Alan Stewart, a messenger on a remote Icelandic road, finds his innocent cargo under threat from a ruthless pursuer and a vengeful Russian agent.