Wolf Winter is an historical crime mystery in the Nordic noir tradition, which chills as it impresses. Ekback, however, has achieved something different. Inevitably, Wolf Winter will be compared with Hannah Kent's remarkable Burial Rites. A tale in the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca, in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers Haunting, evocative and utterly compelling. The cold is beyond imagining, as is the enveloping dark and the terrible hunger as stores diminish. Wolf Winter is richly atmospheric and vivid. Meanwhile, Frederika, who has inherited her great-grandmother's 'gifts', communes with the spirits of the mountain, putting her mortal soul in danger. Mortal and alone'.Ĭonvinced that one of the settlers murdered Eriksson, Maija continues to ask questions, incurring the anger of both the settlers and the church, as she begins to uncover secrets long buried. /rebates/2f97816028629442fWolf-Winter-Ekb25C325A4ck-Cecilia-160286294X2fplp&. the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal. Life is hard and, as winter approaches, Paavo decides to travel to the coast to find work, leaving his wife and children to survive the winter, a winter the Lapps predict will be a 'wolf winter. Maija, however, is not convinced, asking, 'What wild animal cuts a body so clean?' It's not the first time there's been trouble on the mountain, children have been lost and 'a whole family disappeared overnight'.

Published: 20 September 2019 09:41 CEST Cecilia Ekbäck is the author of Wolf Winter. Author Cecilia Ekbäck tells us how interviews with her grandmother helped her shape the novel. While taking their goats to pasture, Frederika discovers Eriksson, a fellow settler, dead, 'his stomach torn open, his insides on the grass violently and stringy'. The Local Swedens Book Club has been reading Wolf Winter, a historical thriller set in Lapland in 1717.

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck