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Swedish Lapland: 1717; a group of disparate settlers struggles to forge a new life in the shadow of the grim mountain Blackasen whose dark mythology lies at odds with the repressive, almost feudal control exerted by the church. Into this setting, Maija, her husband and two daughters arrive, yearning to forget the traumas that caused them to abandon their native Finland and start anew. Not long after their arrival, their teenage daughter Frederika stumbles across the savagely mutilated body of a fellow settler, Eriksson, in a picturesque glade. The locals are quick to dismiss the culprit as…
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8 editions- Paperback · English · 2015Hachette Books · 376 pages · 9781602862944
- Other · English · 2016Harper Perennial · 408 pages · 9781443434911
- Other · English · 2015Hodder & Stoughton · 9781444789553
- Other · English · 2015HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 408 pages · 9781443434904
- Other · English · 2015408 pages · 9781444789522
- Other · English · 2015Hachette Books · 9781602865525
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