![]() ![]() ![]() The dead man, identified as Eriksson, had been missing for three days, but no one seems particularly disturbed at his slaying, and word is out that bad things happen on the mountain. Now they're wondering what type of place they’ve settled in, with murdered men and secrets swirling around them. Paavo couldn’t wait to leave fishing once he discovered his hereditary aversion to water. Their parents, Paavo and Maija, recently migrated from Finland after trading their boat for a patch of ground and a cabin. Ever since the family moved to Blackäsen Mountain from their seacoast home, they've spent most of their time preparing for the difficult winter headed their way. It's June, and 14-year-old Fredericka and Dorotea, her 6-year-old sister, are herding goats in the glade near their cabin when they stumble across the horribly mutilated body of a man. Ekbäck takes readers on a journey to Swedish Lapland in 1717, a harsh and unforgiving place where the supernatural bleeds over into the difficult lives of the few settlers trying to make it through a hardscrabble winter. ![]()
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