In the Month of the Midnight Sun

Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped… visually acute, skilfully written; it won’t easily erase its tracks in the reader’s mind. - HILARY MANTEL, author of WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES on WOLF WINTER

Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended. - Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers on WOLF WINTER

The most brilliantly, dark, eerie, intriguing tale I’ve ever read. Think The Killing and then square it. - Ruby Wax on WOLF WINTER

Wolf Winter is a beautiful novel, full of wisdom and poetry. Cecilia Ekback writes dark, compelling prose steeped in a powerful sense of place. Spellbinding. - Saskia Sarginson, bestselling author of The Twins on WOLF WINTER

WOLF WINTER repays reading for the beauty of its prose, its strange compelling atmosphere and its remendous evocation of the stark, dangerous, threatening place, which exists in the far north and in the hearts of all of us. - Guardian on WOLF WINTER

A compelling, suspenseful story. - Sunday Times on WOLF WINTER

A terrific debut in the vein of Hannah Kent’s BURIAL RITES - The Bookseller on WOLF WINTER

A gripping murder mystery - Good Housekeeping on WOLF WINTER

Cecilia Ekback was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work for a multinational took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK.

In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, ‘returning home’ to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Her first novel, Wolf Winter, was published to great acclaim.