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BOOKBEAT’S SWEDISH CRIME AUTHOR OF THE YEAR

The slaying of a hotel developer in the Swedish mountains casts a shadow over a blissful vacation paradise in a chilling novel of suspense by the acclaimed author of Hidden in Shadows.

On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies.

As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects. But the case takes a turn when a cleaning woman from the lodge is found strangled to death in the woods—and Charlotte’s son goes missing.

Hanna and Daniel plunge into a winding investigation tangled with damaged relationships, corrupt power players, betrayal, and, for Daniel, a personal struggle to process the memories of a painful past. As more troubling questions arise, one thing is certain: Åre’s killing season has only just begun.

Viveca Sten is the author of Hidden in Snow, Hidden in Shadows, and Hidden in Memories in the Åre Murder series—which has been adapted into a runaway #1 hit series on Netflix—and Buried in Secret, In Bad Company, In the Name of Truth, In the Shadow of Power, In Harm’s Way, In the Heat of the Moment, Tonight You’re Dead, Guiltless, Closed Circles, and Still Waters in the #1 internationally bestselling Sandhamn Murders series. Since 2008, her books have sold more than ten million copies, and the Sandhamn Murders series has been adapted into a Swedish-language TV series shot on location and seen by an estimated one hundred million viewers around the world in close to a hundred countries. Today, Viveca divides her time between Stockholm, Sandhamn, and Åre. For more information, visit www.vivecasten.com.

Marlaine Delargy lives in Shropshire in the United Kingdom. She studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and taught German for almost twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson, Helene Tursten, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Therese Bohman, Theodor Kallifatides, Johan Theorin, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010, and Henning Mankell, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2018. Marlaine has also translated nine books in Viveca Sten’s Sandhamn Murders series, and Hidden in Snow, Hidden in Shadows, and Hidden in Memories in Sten’s Åre Murders series.