Outside

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Outside
Ragnar Jónasson

In the swirling snow of a deadly Icelandic storm, four friends seek shelter in a small abandoned hunting lodge. Miles from help, and knowing they will die outside in the cold, they break open the lock and make their way inside, hoping to wait out the storm until morning.
But nothing can prepare them for what they find behind the door...

Inside the cabin lurks a dangerous presence that chills them to their core. Outside, certain death from exposure awaits. So with no other option, they find themselves forced to spend a long, terrifying night in the cabin, watching as intently and silently as they are being watched themselves.

But as the evening darkens, old secrets are beginning to find their way to the light. And as the tension escalates between the four friends, it soon becomes clear that the danger they discovered lurking in the cabin is far from the only thing the only mystery that will be uncovered tonight. Nor the only thing to be afraid of...

GENRE
Scandi-Noir; Crime; Mystery

UK PUBLICATION
April 2022

Praise

"Icelandic author Jonasson, known for the Dark Iceland and Hulda series, offers an intense standalone, taking to new heights his unrivaled [sic] skills for using winter as an unpredictable plot-twister ... Readers will be drawn into Jonasson's forbidding Iceland landscape where it's anyone's guess who will make it out alive."
BookList

"A shivery delight."
Kirkus Reviews

"Chillingly terrifying, brilliantly entertaining, captivating the reader from page one. Impossible to put down."
Frettabladid

"The author describes the difficult conditions of the four main characters in such a brilliant way that in an instant the reader finds himself in unfamiliar surroundings which neither the reader nor the characters can control.:
Morgunbladid

"A superb page-turner, Outside breathes fresh and unsettling life into the classic locked-room mystery."
Kevin Wignall