Is the mysterious medium right, warning that deep waters are waiting for Stella? amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWBRKHTR 'Stella is a force of nature’ – as Mark Sanderson so rightly said in The Times!

We got a mention in the excellent Strong Words Magazine newsletter at the weekend, and I could hardly be more chuffed. Corylus Books

'Icelandic Noir at its finest, a read which is deliciously dark, undercut throughout with dark humour.' Five stars from Andy Wormald for Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken! amwbooksreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/bro… Quentin Bates FMcM David Henry Headley

Next up Murder Tide by Stella Blomkvist published 4 July, love this series Icelandic crime at its finest, looking forward to the blog tour Stella Blómkvist Corylus Books Quentin Bates #MurderTide

A busy summer for razor-tongued, no-nonsense lawyer Stella Blómkvist. An old adversary calls from prison, looking to broker a dangerous deal. And is the mysterious medium right, warning that deep waters are waiting? amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWBRKHTR A trademark Stella triple-decker!

By happy accident I was wearing my Qwertee.com #raven t-shirt when we visited 'Eggin í Gleðivík', granite egg sculptures of the local birds of #Iceland, by artist Sigurður Guðmundsson. Here I am with the raven (hrafn) egg, Corvus Corax 🖤 #meinmyqwertee #qwertee #ravens #birbs

🎉🍾Happy publication day to Stella Blómkvist and translator Quentin Bates Quentin Bates (pictured) - Murder Tide is out now for #kindle. Sharp mind. Sharp tongue. Sharp investigator. Don't get any cuts as you fly through the pages... 🔪🇮🇸 amzn.to/3Ghtd7W #ad from Corylus Books

'We all need a little Stella in our life, can’t wait for the next instalment.' We're celebrating publication day for Stella Blómkvist with this fab review by Peter Fleming ! peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/mur…

Congratulations to Stella Blómkvist as #MurderTide is published in eBook today by Corylus Books. Its the third book in the series to be translated (a great job done by Quentin Bates) from Icelandic to English. Out in paperback on 1 August. Can't wait for book 4 peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/mur…

Nothing like being ahead of the game... First draft of the sequel to Jón Atli Jónasson's Broken is in the bag. Edits, checking, proof-reading to come. Yes, it's just as meaty as Broken, and this translator did a little dance of delight when the Groke showed up again. Corylus Books

Stella Blómkvist is one of a kind – with a taste for neat JD and a moral compass all of her own. There are three translations so far – so there's time to get to know Stella Blómkvist before the fourth appears early next year... amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFZM2BR3 Quentin Bates

'It’s a delight to spend time with Stella, a wrecking ball of a character; unforgettable, sexy, sassy, fearless and smart as a whip.' CrimeFictionLover with a brilliant review of Murder Tide – thanks to Paul Burke crimefictionlover.com/2025/08/murder… Quentin Bates

JE If you like your crime fiction with a dash of weirdness and a big side-order of imagination, then O Huldumann is very much worthwhile. amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XWHRZLM

'...always been the oddball who scours the shelves of a library or bookshop for odd foreign names.' Ali Karim at Ayo Onatade 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇳🇬 tracked down Quentin Bates and got him to open up about books, trawlers, and his work with Jón Atli Jónasson and Stella Blómkvist wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/08/quenti…

The best thing for a sunny weekend? Hunker down in the shade with a portion of ice-cool Nordic crime fiction... amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7

‘I had never heard of Stella Blómkvist, but I guarantee I’ll never forget her!’ – Christoffer Petersen Three for the price of two-and-a-half, and time to get to know the remarkable Stella Blómkvist before #4 appears in the spring! amazon.com/dp/B0CFZM2BR3 Quentin Bates

We're looking forward to an early peek at the new manuscript from Sólveig Pálsdóttir and trying not to be impatient. So look out for Sólveig #5 in English next year – and check out the four Guðgeir & Elsa Guðrún novels already in translation... amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV Quentin Bates

Trying to be patient, knowing there's a manuscript on the way from Sólveig Pálsdóttir any day now... Look out for something new next year! If you haven't yet encountered Reykjavík detectives Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún, check out the four in the series to date. amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Y5NPMKV

Go for it... Jón Atli is the business!

Iceland Noir is over for this year, but there's a book fair this weekend at Harpa in Reykjavík, where we found Quentin Bates with a couple of legends, Birgitta H Halldórsdóttir and Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir – author of A Lethal Legacy... amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F4WHG44P