A review by joelkarpowitz
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck

4.0

Atmospheric, dark and foreboding, rich and layered. Ekback's 1717-set crime novel (somebody has been murdered on a remote Scandinavian mountain) grabs the dark of a Nordic winter by its throat and sinks its teeth in deep. Is it witchcraft? The mysterious Laplanders? One of the troubled farmers? The book is so steeped in this other world that you forget at times that it's really a pretty straightforward mystery novel. The right setting makes all the difference, though, and Ekback's setting is oh-so-right. A great book to snuggle up by the fire with.