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Synopsis
A chilling new historical crime novel from the author of the international bestseller Wolf Winter
An orphaned boy brought up to serve the state as a man. A rich young woman incapable of living by the conventions of society. Neither is prepared for the journey into the heat, mystery, violence and disorienting perpetual daylight of the far north.
Sweden, 1856. The minister of justice has received a disturbing message. There’s been a massacre on one of Lapland’s mountains: a priest, a law enforcement officer and a local settler have been slaughtered by one of the indigenous Sami people. The murderer is in custody, but he refuses to talk. The minister dispatches his geologist son-in-law, Magnus, to investigate, as there is another reason to visit Blackåsen: it is a mountain with many secrets, a mountain whose rich mineral deposits have never been exploited. But Magnus does not journey alone. The minister’s daughter, Lovisa, in disgrace, is sent with him.
The two unlikely companions venture out of the sweltering city to the wild landscape of Sweden’s far north under the strange, insomnia-inducing light of the midnight sun. There, the shocking truth they discover about the murders and what lies behind them will be matched only by what they discover about themselves. The Midnight Sun is a riveting story of the collision of worlds old and new, and cements Ekbäck’s status as a master of Nordic noir.
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From the Back Cover
Sweden, 1856. Blackåsen 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, Magnus cannot resist its mystery. And Lovisa, banished from the city by her father, travelling with her sister’s husband, is perhaps closest of them all to the wildness of this remote place.
Three people, caught in the haunting light of the midnight sun.
About the Author
CECILIA EKBÄCK’s first novel, Wolf Winter, won the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown and a High Plains Book Award. Cecilia was born in a small town in northern Sweden. Her parents come from Lapland, the setting of both Wolf Winter and The Midnight Sun. She now lives in Canmore, Alberta, with her husband and twin daughters
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1443452068
- ISBN 13 9781443452069
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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