Yule Island

Description

Yule Island
by Johana Gustawsson

ISBN: 9781914585975
Hardcover, new

Brief Description:
An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a
Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and
Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns
with a chilling, utterly captivating historical thriller, based on a true
story. Art expert Emma Lindhal is anxious when she’s asked to appraise the
antiques and artefacts in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden’s
wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was
murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found. Emma must work alone,
and the Gussman family apparently avoiding her, she sees virtually no one
in the house. Do they have something to hide? As she goes about her
painstaking work and one shocking discovery yields clues that lead to
another, Emma becomes determined to uncover the secrets of the house and
its occupants. When the lifeless body of another young woman is found in
the icy waters surrounding the island, Detective Karl Rosén arrives to
investigate, and memories his failure to solve the first case come rushing
back. Could this young woman’s tragic death somehow hold the key to the
first? Battling her own demons, Emma joins forces with Karl to embark upon
a chilling investigation, plunging them into horrifying secrets from the
past – Viking rites and tainted love – and Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest
winter…