Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller - Softcover

Forty Days Without Shadow is more than a splendidly told murder investigation and its consequences. It is a fascinating telling of bloody history, culture and indigenous people struggling against all odds to survive. The winter scenes are frighteningly real, and at times leave you breathless and filled with awe. A book you will not forget. A powerful, ingenious piece of crime noir. (New York Journal of Books)

A remarkable, triumphant thriller. (Telerama Magazine)

Original, fascinating, with no concessions to surface '"exoticism". (Librairie L'Atelier)

A dark, highly original novel. (Livres Hebdo)

A powerful Nordic thriller. (Librairie l'usage du monde)

With storylines that shoot along as if over ice, yet with unusual depth, Forty Days Without Shadow has won numerous awards and justly so. The author, the Nordic correspondent of Le Monde, has a deep understanding and love of the furthest stretches of his territory. Highly recommended: just as we might have thought Scandinavian crime was exhausted, a brilliant new voice comes along. (Independent)

Truly memorable..the account of seeing the first gleam of sunshine after forty days of total darkness will stay with me. (Literary Review)