Cold Breath

A great read - leaves you craving the next installment

A meticulously constructed thriller, peopled with exceptionally convincing characters and shot through with black humour. Frozen Out is as chilling as an Icelandic winter

Superior crime fiction set in Iceland… this is a well constructed, well written and satisfying police procedural - The Times on Cold Comfort

[A] crackling fiction debut … palpable authenticity - Publishers Weekly on Frozen Out

British author Bates captures the chilly spirit of Nordic crime fiction … Fans of Arnaldur Indridason’s Reykjavik mysteries will want to add Bates to their reading lists - Booklist on Frozen Out

[With] an in-depth knowledge of just how Iceland works it’s a perfect book to curl up with in front of the fire … We’ve had quite a few books set in Iceland recently, but this one will give them a run for their money - The Bookbag on Frozen Out

A beautifully crafted, intricately plotted, atmospheric thriller. Highly recommended - Crime Thriller Girl on Chilled to the Bone

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.