![]() ![]() The time and the setting, Swedish Lapland, 1717.Mostly I enjoyed the writing style. What did you like most about Wolf Winter? But what wild animal cuts a body so clean? ![]() 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. And whether stubborn or stupid or scared for her girls, the mother will not let it rest. It is their two young daughters who find the dead man not half an hour's walk from their cottage. Then even the oldest enemies will gather.īut now it is summer, and new settlers are come. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the church summons her people through the snows. A day's journey away lies the empty town. There are six homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain. 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. ![]()
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