And they definitely don’t expect that Frederika and Dorotea will discover the mutilated corpse of one of their new neighbours, a man named Eriksson, in a glade where they’d intended to pasture their goats. One thing they don’t expect is for Paavo to leave his womenfolk on their own and travel to the coast to try to earn some money. They don’t know the mountain’s dark history of evil portents and mysterious disappearances, and they aren’t sure what to expect. Paavo, his wife Maija, and their daughters, 14-year-old Frederika and six-year-old Dorotea, are new arrivals from Finland, and they haven’t spent a winter so far north before. The Lapps who have come south for the season say it will be a ‘wolf winter’, which they describe as ‘the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal. The long darkness of winter is closing in, and the scattered homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain are preparing for what the signs suggest will be a rough time. Written by Cecilia Ekbäck, narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan - Swedish-born writer Cecilia Ekbäck’s debut crime thriller is set in remote north Sweden in 1717.
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