Jar City, by Arnaldur Indriðason

A solid police procedural, set in Reykjavík and the towns around it.  An old man is murdered and Inspector Erlendur and his team must seek the motives behind his death in his brutal past.  Erlendur's drug addict pregnant daughter is an interesting aside, as she tries to get clean for her child's sake.  Indriðason offers an interesting perspective on crime and policing in Iceland.  Apparently there's an Icelandic movie based on the book that could be pretty interesting, and an American version that will be placed in Louisiana.   Louisiana = Iceland?? Hmmm.

Frozen Assets, by Quentin Bates

Anyone who thinks what Stieg Larsson did was easy should read Bates.  Confusing economic and political machinations in Iceland, endless characters with Icelandic names that all look the same, saved as much as possible by a female protagonist who is pretty easy to care about.  Larsson made his books compelling reading, Bates's first effort is like pulling teeth to plow through.  Without Gunna the Cop, sardonic, overweight single mother policing in a teeny Icelandic town, I wouldn't have made it through.