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[2020]., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Ekb Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1943 and Sweden's neutrality in the war is under pressure. Laura Dahlgren, a bright young historian who is the right hand of the chief negotiator with Germany, is privy to ongoing discussions about the transport of German soldiers to occupied Norway and German access to Swedish iron ore. When her former best friend and fellow classmate, Britta, is discovered tortured and murdered, Laura is determined to find her killer. In the Swedish government, the secretary to the unpopular minister of foreign affairs, Jens Regnell, is sent Britta's PhD thesis on Scandinavian supremacy without understanding why, just as he is becoming increasingly worried that his boss is secretly negotiating with the Reich without informing the government. In Lapland, near the iron mine, Sami are mysteriously disappearing. Taneli, a young Sami boy, decides to investigate after his sister suddenly goes missing. Together these three people will uncover a conspiracy that could topple their government and destroy their country's identity -- a conspiracy that others are desperate to contain at any cost necessary.
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2017., Adult, HarperAvenue Call No: MYS Fic Ekb Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Sweden, 1855. Worst thing I ever saw... The Minister of Justice has received a disturbing message. Theres been a massacre on one of Lapland's mountains: a priest, a law enforcement officer, and a local settler have been slaughtered by one of the indigenous Sami people. The murderer is in custody, but he refuses to talk. The Minister dispatches his son-in-law, a geologist, to investigate, as there is another reason to visit BlackÃ¥sen: it is a mountain with many secrets, a mountain whose rich mineral deposits have never been exploited. But Magnus does not journey alone. The Ministers daughter, in disgrace, is sent with him. The two unlikely companions venture out of the sweltering city to the wild landscape of Swedens far north under the strange, insomnia-inducing light of the midnight sun. There, the shocking truth they discover about the murders and what lies behind them will only be matched by what they discover about themselves. For Lovisa and Magnusand for the people of BlackÃ¥sennothing will ever be the same again. In The Month of the Midnight Sun tells a riveting story of the collision of worlds old and new, and cements EkbÃncks status as a master of Nordic noir." --Amazon.ca.
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c2015., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Ekb Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband and their two daughters arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of the past and put down roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackasen, a mountain whose dark history haunts the lives of those in its shadow. While herding the family's goats on the mountain, Maija's elder daughter, Frederika, stumbles across the mutilated body of one of their neighbours. The community dismisses the death as a wolf attack, but Maija feels certain it was murder.
