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In the Month of the Midnight Sun Hardcover – 1 June 2016

by Cecilia Ekback (Author)

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'Ekback once again proves that she is in the very front rank of Scandinavian crime writers.' Independent

An orphaned boy brought up to serve the state as a man. A rich young woman incapable of living by the conventions of society. Neither is prepared for the journey into the heat, mystery, violence and disorienting perpetual daylight of the far North.

Stockholm 1856.

Magnus is a geologist. When the Minister sends him to survey the distant but strategically vital Lapland region around Blackasen Mountain, it is a perfect cover for another mission: Magnus must investigate why one of the nomadic Sami people, native to the region, has apparently slaughtered in cold blood a priest, a law officer and a settler in their rectory.

Is there some bigger threat afoot? Blackasen seems to be a place of many secrets.

But the Minister has more than a professional tie to Magnus, and at the last moment, he adds another responsibility. Disgusted by the wayward behaviour of his daughter Lovisa - Magnus's sister-in law - the Minister demands that Magnus take her with him on his arduous journey.

Thus the two unlikely companions must venture out of the sophisticated city, up the coast and across country, to the rough-hewn religion and politics of the settler communities, the mystical, pre-Christian ways of the people who have always lived on this land, and the strange, compelling light of the midnight sun.

For Lovisa and Magnus, nothing can ever be the same again.

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Print length

368 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date

1 June 2016
Dimensions

14.4 x 3.2 x 22.3 cm
ISBN-10

1444789937
ISBN-13

978-1444789935
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Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped... visually acute, skilfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind. - HILARY MANTEL, author of WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES on WOLF WINTER

Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended. - Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers on WOLF WINTER

The most brilliantly, dark, eerie, intriguing tale I've ever read. Think The Killing and then square it. - Ruby Wax on WOLF WINTER

Wolf Winter is a beautiful novel, full of wisdom and poetry. Cecilia Ekback writes dark, compelling prose steeped in a powerful sense of place. Spellbinding. - Saskia Sarginson, bestselling author of The Twins on WOLF WINTER

WOLF WINTER repays reading for the beauty of its prose, its strange compelling atmosphere and its remendous evocation of the stark, dangerous, threatening place, which exists in the far north and in the hearts of all of us. - Guardian on WOLF WINTER

A compelling, suspenseful story. - Sunday Times on WOLF WINTER

A terrific debut in the vein of Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES - The Bookseller on WOLF WINTER

A gripping murder mystery - Good Housekeeping on WOLF WINTER