Ice Moon - Hardcover

Wagner, Jan Costin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151012695 ISBN 13: 9780151012695

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

Synopsis

Only a week after losing his wife, a distraught Detective Kimmo Joentaa returns to work to join a murder inquiry. It is the case of a woman smothered in her sleep?a curiously tranquil death, it seems, and one with no motive?and Kimmo becomes obsessed. The only clues are a half-empty bottle of red wine, two glasses, and a missing painting, a blurred landscape of no value. When a young man is found murdered in bed the next day in a hostel room with seven people asleep around him, Kimmo realizes a serial killer must be at work.

As he struggles with the memory of his wife's early death, Kimmo investigates the murders and tries to understand the mind of the perpetrator, who appears to be quiet, self-effacing, and affable?why then the urge to destroy? Set in Finland during the unnervingly long days of late summer near the top of the world, Ice Moon is an unsettling, poignant mystery.

About this title

Review:

"Intriguing and touching" (Independent)

"To create an investigator who is both admirable and troubled... and yet individual and sympathetic, is a gift, and Wagner has it" (Heather O’Donoghue Times Literary Supplement)

"Haunting and disturbing... A strange and clever psychological thriller that manages at once to be both chilling and refreshing" (The Times)

"Intriguing and touching" (Independent on Sunday)

"Wagner is not interested in ... catching a serial killer. He is writing about the mystery of death ... Rarely has a murder mystery come so close to the riddle of death. Wagner has what it takes: the ability to unnerve us" (Die Zeit)

From the Publisher:

Violence and gentleness are entwined in this haunting psychological thriller

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0151012695
• ISBN 13: 9780151012695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276