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In the Month of the Midnight Sun
On sale
13th July 2017
Price: £9.99
‘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.
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.
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Reviews
Ekback...has a tremendous sense of place. Vividly conveying the desolation of the landscape in this haunting novel
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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.
Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended.
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A compelling, suspenseful story.
Fans of The Miniaturist will love flashing back to the dark bleakness of 1717 Lapland in Cecilia Ekback's debut.
Masterfully thrilling.
The writing is atmospheric, vivid and compelling.
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.
Ekback is a talented writer... this book is never less than absorbing.
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.