A review by readingwithhippos
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck

4.0

I picked this one up because I wanted a book with a really, really cold setting. This fall has been entirely too warm for comfort around here, and if I couldn't bundle up in a blanket in front of a frosted windowpane, I figured I could at least immerse myself in chillier environs through my reading. And I was not disappointed: the Swedish Lapland is really damn cold, especially so in the 1700s before central heating was a thing. Bonus: main character Maija is a bonafide badass, self-reliant and determined to get to the truth of her neighbor Eriksson's death. Maija's daughter finds Eriksson dead on the mountain, and the townspeople are quick to blame it on a wolf attack. But Maija has seen the wound, and she knows it was inflicted by man, not animal. And then the snow starts to fall.

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