In the Month of the Midnight Sun - Softcover

Ekbäck, Cecilia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144478997X ISBN 13: 9781444789973

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2017

Synopsis

'A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day...as thrilling as it is fascinating' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

Sweden 1856.

Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now - murder.

They say it was the Lapp who killed the three men.

But something is not right.

Ester knows it - but to help the settlers is to betray her people.

Magnus feels it too. Sent by the Minister to survey the mountain, he cannot resist its mystery.

And Lovisa: banished from the city by her father, travelling with her sister's husband, she is perhaps closest of them all to the wildness of the place.

Three people, caught in the haunting light of the midnight sun.

About this title

Review:

Ekback...has a tremendous sense of place. Vividly conveying the desolation of the landscape in this haunting novel (The Sunday Times)

A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day. Cecilia Ekback has a tremendous feel for the landscape of the north, and her portrayal of the small community who live under the mountain of Blackasen, their suspicion of the outsiders who come amongst them, and the land's own power and hold over their lives and fates, is as thrilling as it is fascinating. (Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites)

The writing is atmospheric, vivid and compelling. (Choice magazine)

Masterfully thrilling. (The Bookbag)

Ekback is a talented writer... this book is never less than absorbing. (The Times)

With In the Month of the Midnight Sun, we're given more ambitious, literate Nordic Noir from Swede Cecilia Ekbäck (writing in English), who provides an elusive poetic feel not common in the genre. An orphaned boy and a privileged, rebellious young women are uneasy fellow travellers through the threatening perpetual daylight of the far north as they move towards a strange destiny. As in Wolf Winter, Ekbäck once again proves that she is in the very front rank of Scandinavian crime writers. (Independent)

Praise for Wolf Winter (:)

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)

WOLF WINTER 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)

Book Description:

From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a second 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 144478997X
• ISBN 13: 9781444789973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368