Wolf Winter - Hardcover

Ekbäck, Cecilia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444789511 ISBN 13: 9781444789515

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015

Synopsis

Winner of the 2016 HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown Award.

'Fans of The Miniaturist will love flashing back to the dark bleakness of 1717 Lapland in Cecilia Ekback's debut.' Grazia

A brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves.

There are six homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain.

A day's journey away lies the empty town. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the Church summons her people through the snows. Then, even the oldest enemies will gather.

But now it is summer, and new settlers are come.

It is their two young daughters who find the dead man, not half an hour's walk from their cottage.

The father is away. And whether stubborn, or stupid, or scared for her girls, the mother will not let it rest.

To the wife who is not concerned when her husband does not come home for three days; to the man who laughs when he hears his brother is dead; to the priest who doesn't care; she asks and asks her questions,
digging at the secrets of the mountain.

They say a wolf made those wounds. But what wild animal cuts a body so clean?

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Review:

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)

Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended (Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers)

Wolf Winter eminently repays reading for the beauty of its prose, its strange, compelling atmosphere and its tremendous evocation of the stark, dangerous, threatening place, which exists in the far north and in the hearts of all of us. (Guardian)

Swedish Lapland of 1717 is evoked so vividly that it seeps into your bones... A highly intelligent piece of historical Scandi-noir. (The Times)

The most brilliantly, dark, eerie, intriguing tale I've ever read. Think The Killing and then square it. (Ruby Wax)

Wolf Winter is a beautiful novel, full of wisdom and poetry. Cecilia Ekbäck writes dark, compelling prose steeped in a powerful sense of place. Spellbinding. (Saskia Sarginson, bestselling author of The Twins)

A compelling, suspenseful story. (Sunday Times)

A terrific debut in the vein of Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES (The Bookseller)

A gripping murder mystery (Good Housekeeping)

Cecilia Ekback provides something fresh. . . haunting . . . ugly secrets are soon brought to light at the cost of great danger to Maija and her family. Highly individual fare. (Financial Times)

Book Description:

A brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves.

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1444789511
• ISBN 13: 9781444789515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432