The Woman With the Death Mask
The final standalone instalment in Mads Peder Nordbo's chillingly cold bestselling series.
A man is found dead at the bottom of a well at the old Viking ruins in Greenland. When the police discover that the man has recently been killed by a woman who has been dead and buried for more than six months, fear spreads throughout the small, Arctic community.
The police focus on the young Inuit woman Tupaarnaq, who has been imprisoned for the murder of her father and has now disappeared. Her only friend, journalist Matthew Cave, feels pressured to help find her. He travels to Denmark to learn about her past through the psychologist who treated her while she was in prison.
Matthew discovers that Tupaarnaq is not who he thought she was, and he travels back to Greenland in alarm only to find out that more bodies have turned up. When he wakes up one morning covered in blood, he must face the truth that he is now both a suspect and a hunted man.
The bestselling Greenland series by Mads Peder Nordbo consists of The Girl Without Skin, Cold Fear and The Woman With the Death Mask. The trilogy plays out in the remote and arctic environment of Greenland, where Nordbo lived and worked between 2014-2019, employed at the town hall in Nuuk, where he worked closely with the mayor of the capital municipality.
The Greenland series garnered Nordbo critical acclaim from readers and critics alike for his authentic and respectful rendering of Greenlandic society and its conditions, and the beautiful but unforgiving Arctic environment - a counterpoint to the brutal elements of the crimes in the storylines.
The series has been translated into 20 languages, including English, and has been optioned for a TV series.
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