She is in such disgrace for an unnamed crime that her father has cut off all her hair. Along with these tasks, Magnus is asked to take his sister in law, 20 year old Lovisa with him.

The Lapp was found sitting with the bodies of the priest, the constable and a visitor and the government needs to know if this is the start of a Lapp uprising or if the men were murdered for another reason. He asks Magnus to travel to Blackåsen Mountain in order to carry out a mineralogical survey, but in actuality to investigate the murder of three settlers by a native Lapp. Stockholm, 1856 and geologist Magnus Stille has been summoned by his father in law, the state minister for justice. Thus the two unlikely companions must venture out of the sophisticated city, up the coast and across country, to the rough-hewn religion and politics of the settler communities, the mystical, pre-Christian ways of the people who have always lived on this land, and the strange, compelling light of the midnight sun.įor Lovisa and Magnus, nothing can ever be the same again. Disgusted by the wayward behaviour of his daughter Lovisa - Magnus's sister-in law - the Minister demands that Magnus take her with him on his arduous journey. Is there some bigger threat afoot? Blackasen seems to be a place of many secrets.īut the Minister has more than a professional tie to Magnus, and at the last moment, he adds another responsibility.

When the Minister sends him to survey the distant but strategically vital Lapland region around Blackasen Mountain, it is a perfect cover for another mission: Magnus must investigate why one of the nomadic Sami people, native to the region, has apparently slaughtered in cold blood a priest, a law officer and a settler in their rectory.

Neither is prepared for the journey into the heat, mystery, violence and disorienting perpetual daylight of the far North. A rich young woman incapable of living by the conventions of society. An orphaned boy brought up to serve the state as a man.

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck