The Girl without Skin

• Combining Inuit folklore, arctic politics, Viking history and a haunting mystery, The Girl Without Skin is a brutal thriller from a new master in ice-cold arctic crime • When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered on an ice sheet in Nuuk, Greenland, journalist Matthew Cave is sent out to report on the extraordinary finding. When he returns to the site the next day, the mummy has disappeared and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed on the ice, resembling a gruesome series of unsolved murders from many years earlier • With no faith in the police, the only person Matthew dares to trust is a young Greenlandic woman who, at fifteen years old, was charged with killing her father in the same shocking manner • Mads Peder Nordbo has staked out a new frontier in Nordic Crime, setting his story against the foreboding beauty of Greenland, with its brilliant bright light, thick fog, soaking rain and crystalline white ice sheet • For fans of Stieg Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Killing, The Bridge and all things Nordic noir • Mads Peder Nordbo is a Danish-born author who has lived in Greenland for many years. The Girl Without Skin is his crime debut and a bestseller in Denmark. Rights have subsequently sold in seventeen territories