Cold Breath: A gripping and atmospheric Icelandic thriller packed with suspense
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'Excellent read, as are all the Gunna books! Tight storyline and very likeable lead characters with real depth. Enough twists and turns to keep me glued right to the end' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Detective Gunnhildur 'Gunna' Gísladóttir is back, and thrown together with a high-profile stranger, a guest of the interiors minister, in a secure house outside Reykjavík. It's a little too close for comfort . . .
They soon find they are neither as safe nor as carefully hidden as Gunna and her boss had thought. Conflicting glimpses of the man's past start to emerge as the press begin to sniff him out, as does another group with their own reasons for locating him.
Gunna struggles to come to terms with protecting the life of a man who may have the lives of many on his conscience - or can she believe that he's actually the philanthropist he claims to be?
Isolated together, the friction grows between Gunna and the foreign visitor, and she realises they are out of their depth as the trails lead from the house and beyond Iceland to to Brussels, Russia and the Middle East.
The sixth dark and atmospheric thriller in Quentin Bates's Icelandic crime series. A chilling page-turner perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man.
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Readers are raving about Cold Breath!
'It's a cliché, but for once this is accurate: this series truly does get better with every new book' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Great book that I didn't want to put down; realistic characters that aren't stereotype James Bond/ Lara Croft ninjas and a great plot' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'The best of the series, so far. I was captivated . . . Great reading!' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Bates never fails to please. Twist and turns galore . . . A joy' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Thoroughly absorbing and one of the best in the Gunnhildur series' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'My favourite policewoman, she doesn't take any rubbish!!!' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Awesome. I loved it all, the suspense and everything' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'These books featuring Gunnhildur have become my absolute favourite mystery thrillers . . . Cold Breath was so good' - Amazon reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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About the author
Quentin Bates made his escape from suburbia at the end of the seventies as a gap year turned into a gap decade spent in the north of Iceland. He worked ashore and at sea before returning to England and, once finally ashore for good, drifted by accident into journalism.
Finally the lure of fiction became too strong to resist. Sergeant Gunnhildur and the series of novels she features in have their origins in a deep affection for Iceland and its people, and an intimate knowledge of Icelandic society and its language, customs and quirks.
Today Quentin divides his time between the north of Iceland and the south of England, translating books from Icelandic in addition to working on his own fiction.
