El Invierno Mas Largo (Paperback)

from AlisonY

The year is 1717. A couple and their two daughters move from the Finnish coast seeking a new life away from family fears on a remote mountain in Swedish Lapland. Before long their daughters make a gruesome discovery; it becomes apparent that there is a darkness at work on the mountain, and that t...

from SharonMariaBidwell

A Swedish mystery set in 1717, this was a surprising read, skilfully accomplished. This is a book more suited to adults, although the protagonist seems to be Frederika, a young girl which is surprising as the general rule for fiction is the age of the main character determines the reading age. I ...

from cattylj

Reading this book is kind of like being in a hypnagogic trance - one foot in the dream world, one in the waking world, and a general sense of being unsettled. I've never read a book with such a heavy noir vibe that was set in the countryside - let alone the Swedish countryside circa the 1700s. Bu...

from johnwbeha

This is an excellent read. It is slow and it is bleak. Although there are murders and a lot of mystery I would not really classify it as "Scandi-noir". It is set in Swedish Lapland in 1717. Interestingly the author tells us that she tried alternative periods. It is hard to imagine it working in a...

from BraveNewBks

This was not an easy read for me. Perhaps because it was my first exposure to a novel set in 18th-century Scandinavia, I sometimes struggled to orient myself. For example, it took me awhile to grasp that "the Lapps" were not another one of the settler families, like "the Erikssons"; rather, accor...