Under the Snow: A Novel - Softcover

Ekman, Kerstin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312200382 ISBN 13: 9780312200381

Publisher: Picador, 1999

Synopsis

From the author of Blackwater comes this atmospheric and chilling tale of small-town secrets and jealousy set in the icy northern landscape of Lapland. When an artist named Matti is killed at a mah jongg party, Police Constable Torsson skis to the remote village of Rakisjok to investigate. Once there, witnesses evade the constable's questions and insist that Matti walked off into the wilderness and froze to death. With no clues to go on, Torsson closes his case. Then David, an old friend of Matti's, arrives in town and together with Torsson, he sets out to get at the truth about Matti's death.

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Praise for Under the Snow:

"Engrossing...plenty of satisfying revelations and a deft solution." --Margot Lavesey, The New York Times Book Review

"[Ekman's] style is so spare and clear...that when the reader realizes how complex the setup really is, it's almost shocking." --The New Yorker

"A satisfying yarn...Ekman evokes the dreary, open yet stifling environment with skill, smoothly layering clues and hints, leading the way to a tense and chilling finale." --Peter Handel, San Francisco Chronicle

"Atmospheric and slyly humorous, Under the Snow is taut, engrossing, and anything but a blank." --Lev Raphael, Detroit Free Press

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lackwater, Kerstin Ekman made one of the most memorable English-language debuts by a European author in recent years.
Under the Snow opens with a phone call from an outlying village to police constable Torsson, and the news is of a mah jong party turned sour. A brawl broke out and a man named Matti was accidentally killed. When he questions the villagers, Torsson notices some minor discrepancies in their stories, but writes them off as unimportant. It is not until a few months later that he is forced to reopen the case: David, an eccentric artist and old friend of Matti, has arrived in town for a visit with no knowledge of the death. David has an uneasy feeling about the whole affair, and when he finds Anna Ryd, the town's beautiful English teacher, running away with a bag containing a noose with human hairs on it, he makes it his business to find out what happened. Gradually the facts of the case come to light and dark deeds which were covered up in the

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312200382
• ISBN 13: 9780312200381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224