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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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Winner of the 2016 HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown Award.

´Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended.´ Lee Child

There are six homesteads on Black†sen Mountain.

A day´s journey away lies the empty town. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the Church summons her people through the snows. Then, even the oldest enemies will gather.

But now it is summer, and new settlers are come.

It is their two young daughters who find the dead man, not half an hour´s walk from their cottage.

The father is away. And whether stubborn, or stupid, or scared for her girls, the mother will not let it rest.

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.

They say a wolf made those wounds. But what wild animal cuts a body so clean?

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Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers

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Ekbäck, Cecilia

Cecilia Ekbäck was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work for a multinational took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK. She speaks Swedish, English, French and Russian fluently and has some Spanish, Portuguese and German.

In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, ´returning home´ to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Wolf Winter is her first novel and she is at work on her second.

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