The Girl Without Skin (Matthew Cave Thriller, 1) - Softcover

Nordbo, Mads Peder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925603830 ISBN 13: 9781925603835

Publisher: Text Publishing Company, 2019

Synopsis

When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered on Greenland ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent out to report on the finding. The next day, the mummy has disappeared. The body of the police guard lies on the ice naked and flayed, echoing a gruesome series of unsolved murders from many years earlier. With no faith in the police, the only person Matthew dares to trust is a young Greenlandic woman who, at fourteen years old, was charged with killing her father in the same shocking manner. Nordbo has staked out a new frontier in Nordic Crime, setting his story against the forbidding beauty of Greenland.

About this title

About the Author:

Mads Peder Nordbo is a Danish-born author who has lived in Nuuk in Greenland for many years. He holds degrees in literature, communications and philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Stockholm. He works in communications at the town hall in Nuuk, where he writes for the mayor of the municipality. The Girl without Skin is his crime debut; Rights have been sold in eighteen territories; Another standalone Matthew Cave novel, Cold Fearn, will be published in 2020.

Review:

“Offer[s] intriguing glimpses of Greenland, its relentless summer light and oppressive winter darkness. While the mystery is dramatically resolved, readers will want to learn what's next. . . Fans of Nordic crime fiction have a new author to follow.”―Kirkus

"A grippingly atmospheric yarn... As danger mounts, the landscape, weather and people of the former Danish colony are piercingly observed. Chilling."―Sunday Times [UK]

"This intricate crime novel is incredibly thrilling, and offers some genuine surprises.’―Finals Krimiside

"The plot is gruesome, believable and incredibly tense."―Bogfidusen

"Nordbo writes with great insight into the environment of Greenland, in which the nearly unbearable events play out."―Jysk Fynske Medier

"A classical crime combined with a thriller’s intensity―but just as much social criticism.’―VG Norway

"Has everything the heart of a true crime novel could desire. Murder, eeriness, shivers, superstition, terrible secrets – but at the same time you can feel the author's affection for Greenland."―Krimifan

About this edition

• Publisher: Text Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1925603830
• ISBN 13: 9781925603835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352