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In the Month of the Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck
4.0
“In the underworld, the dead live lives matching ours. If you walk barefoot, you can sometimes feel the soles of their feet against yours.”
In The Month Of The Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck is based on Blackåsen Mountain. This is a place of superstition and now murder. The deaths are blamed on the Lapp, Ester believes it, Magnus a minister is sent to survey mountain and Lovisa who is banished from the city by her father is closest to the wilderness of the place. Three people are caught amongst the haunting of the midnight sun.
I read the first book by this author called Wolf Winter, that was an intense noir story which I really enjoyed. I went into this one blind and was not disappointed.
The mystery of the deaths involves three people and it’s written in the voice of the three mentioned characters. Theres constant back and forth between timelines of when the murders occurred and to when they are being investigated. The story is told with an uneasy sense of foreboding dread. There is a strange claustrophobic atmosphere due to its’s setting.
I love a book with a map and this is included at the beginning of the book along with a character list to follow.
This was definitely an unsettling story set in the land of the midnight sun, the conclusion did not come without several surprises. A must read for fans of nordic noir.
In The Month Of The Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck is based on Blackåsen Mountain. This is a place of superstition and now murder. The deaths are blamed on the Lapp, Ester believes it, Magnus a minister is sent to survey mountain and Lovisa who is banished from the city by her father is closest to the wilderness of the place. Three people are caught amongst the haunting of the midnight sun.
I read the first book by this author called Wolf Winter, that was an intense noir story which I really enjoyed. I went into this one blind and was not disappointed.
The mystery of the deaths involves three people and it’s written in the voice of the three mentioned characters. Theres constant back and forth between timelines of when the murders occurred and to when they are being investigated. The story is told with an uneasy sense of foreboding dread. There is a strange claustrophobic atmosphere due to its’s setting.
I love a book with a map and this is included at the beginning of the book along with a character list to follow.
This was definitely an unsettling story set in the land of the midnight sun, the conclusion did not come without several surprises. A must read for fans of nordic noir.