That rugged Icelandic glacier, Detective Erlendur, is away from Reykjavik and a disturbing case is handled by his female sidekick, Elinborg. The female perspective crates a different kind of novel from those build around Arnaldur Indridason's withdrawn and isolated loner. Here we have a detective worrying about her family while handling with sensitivity the victims of a serial rapist.

Stephen King 11/22/63

What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was JFK assassination?  11/22/63 - the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes the protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phoes and iPods to a new world of  Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian amed Sadie Dunhill, who becomes love of the Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. 

Bad Luck and Trouble

Now on his own for 10 years, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no phone, no ties, and no address—he's a hard man to find. A loner, comfortable in his anonymity and solitude.