Book cover for the novel 'Whale Fjord' by Michael Ridpath, featuring a stormy sky, a flying bird, a mountain landscape with snow, a small hut on a rocky shore, and a quote from Daily Mail.

Whale Fjord

Magnus Iceland Mysteries: Book 7

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten.

Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets.

Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back eighty years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.

Read more about the British occupation of Iceland in 1940.