The Girl without Skin

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A gripping mystery set amid the brilliant bright light, thick fog, soaking rain and crystalline white ice sheet of Greenland - from the master of Arctic Crime. When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed - exactly like the victims in a gruesome series of murders that terrified the remote town of Nuuk in the 1970s. As Matt investigates, he is shocked by the deprivation and brutal violence the locals take for granted. Unable to trust the police, he begins to suspect a cover-up. It's only when he meets a young Inuit woman, Tupaarnaq, convicted of killing her parents and two small sisters, that Matt starts to realise how deep this story goes - and how much danger he is in.

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This intricate crime novel is incredibly thrilling, and offers some genuine surprises. * Finals Krimiside *
The plot is gruesome, believable and incredibly tense. * Bogfidusen *
Mads Peder Nordbo has written a macabre but engrossing Arctic crime novel about incest and corruption. * Jyllands-Posten *
Lucky Nordbo has given his main character a troubled past, which makes it plausible that he would fling himself fearlessly into investigating the older killings that breath new lifeand deathinto a corrupt political present. * Brsen *
Mads Peder Nordbo writes with great insight into the environment of Greenland, in which the nearly unbearable events play out. * Jysk Fynske Medier *
The Girl Without Skinis large parts a classical crime combined with a thrillers intensitybut just as much social criticism. * VG Norway *
The Girl Without Skin has everything the heart of a true crime fan could desire. Murder, eeriness, shivers, superstition, terrible secrets but at the same time you can feel the author's affection for Greenland. * Krimifan *
This intricate crime novel mixes a grisly plot with interesting insights into Greenlands history and culture. * Canberra Weekly *
While there are similarities to Stieg Larssons Millennium series, Nordbos writing is far more poetic. Though dazzled by the icecaps beauty, hes not blinded to the darkness of man. * SA Weekend *
A very satisfying thriller. Packed to the brim with grisly murders, corrupt officials, and sinister secrets, all set against the bleak, yet oddly beautiful, Greenlandic landscape, the bar has certainly been set quite high for the series to come. * AU Review *
A grippingly atmospheric yarn As danger mounts, the landscape, weather and people of the former Danish colony are piercingly observed. Chilling. * Sunday Times *
A complex atmospheric and menacing readthe story is enmeshed in the culture and politics of Greenland and the relationship with Denmarkits a nail biting murder mystery, the action takes over and the story hurtles to a riveting denouement, but its also an insight into a part of the world that we dont normally get to see. * NB Magazine [UK] *
Fans of Scandinavian crime fiction will find this a thoroughly atmospheric, melancholy and ultra-graphic thriller that casts a socially critical eye attributes that are all the calling cards of Nordic noir.Greenland provides a new and interesting setting, with some of the native culture woven into the story. * Crime Fiction Lover [UK] *
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 *

Author Bio

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. Mads is the author of three novels, and The Girl without Skin is his crime debut. Rights have been sold in seventeen territories. Charlotte Barslund is a Scandinavian translator. She has translated novels by Peter Adolphsen, Mikkel Birkegaard, Thomas Enger, Karin Fossum, Steffen Jacobsen, Carsten Jensen and Per Petterson, as well as a wide range of classic and contemporary plays. She lives in the UK.