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Wolf Winter

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What to expect

'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

'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?

(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton

Critics Review

Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended
Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers
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
This story of the struggle for survival of a family of Finnish settlers in Swedish Lapland in the early 18th Century is not for the faint hearted. The writer creates a convincing atmosphere of a very strange time in a very strange land... The details of how these people survive in an extraordinary landscape stays with you long after you have finished reading.
Daily Mail
Strong sense of place, robust characters and gothiky atmosphere.
Woman & Home
There are shivers aplenty in Cecilia Ekback's cracking atmospheric debut.
Saturday Express Magazine
Memorable and interesting characters, this story will stay with me for a long time.
Cook Create Read blog
Author Cecilia Ekback
Narrator Jenny Funnell
Duration 12 hours and 6 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781444789546
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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