Calling Mrs Christmas by Carole Matthews
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Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman
A Winter Beneath the Stars by Jo Thomas
Snow Angels by James ThompsonHistorical novel set in early 20th Century PETROGRAD
Five great books set in Lapland
13th December 2018
Lapland is the latest destination in our ‘Five great books set in…’ series.
Five great books set in Lapland.
In an unashamedly festive offering, we list below five books from the TripFiction database set firmly in Lapland. Although it isn’t just Christmas written about in this dark location….
Calling Mrs Christmas by Carole Matthews – set in ENGLAND & LAPLAND
Cassie Smith has been out of work for a while but she has an idea. Drawing on her love of Christmas, she begins charging for small things: wrapping presents; writing cards; tree-decorating. She’s soon in huge demand and Cassie’s business, Calling Mrs Christmas, is born.
Carter Randall wants to make Christmas special for his children, so he enlists Cassie’s help, and his lavish requests start taking up all her time. Thank goodness she can rely on her loving partner Jim to handle the rest of her clients.
When millionaire Carter asks Cassie to join his family on a trip to Lapland, she knows she shouldn’t go . . . Suddenly Cassie finds herself facing a heart-breaking choice that could change her entire life.
Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name by Vendela Vida – set in LAPLAND
When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn’t her father at all.
Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle – to Lapland. There, under the northern lights, Clarissa not only unearths her family’s secrets, but also the truth about herself.
Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman – set in LAPLAND
Midsummer eve, 1974, in the far north of Sweden. Annie Raft arrives with her six-year-old daughter in a small town called Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a commune. But Dan is not there to meet them. Panicking, Annie treks into the wilderness to find the commune, in the strange, hovering light of midsummer night. By the river, she finds a tent: and inside it two bodies hideously murdered – stabbed so violently that the feathers from their sleeping bag scatter the ground.
Many years later, Annie has settled in the region, and Mia, her daughter has grown up. Early one morning she glimpses Mia in the arms of the man she believes responsible for the murders. The seemingly inexplicable crime, long buried, is forced to come to its own dark and unexpected conclusion.
A Winter Beneath the Stars by Jo Thomas – set in LAPLAND
Halley has been running from her problems for years.
On a courier trip to Tallfors, deep in Swedish Lapland, everything is going to plan. Halley has her bag, with two precious wedding rings inside for delivery… until she doesn’t.
The only way to save the wedding is to team up with mysterious reindeer herder Bjorn, the one person who can lead her across the snowy tundra to be reunited with her bag.
On a journey of a lifetime beneath the stars, with only the reindeer and a bad-tempered stranger for company beside the fire, Halley realises that she will need to confront her past heartaches in order to let the warmth of love in once more…
Snow Angels by James Thompson – set in LAPLAND
The first thriller in a new series featuring Inspector Kari Vaara: the haunted, hardened detective who must delve into Finland’s dark and violent underbelly.
Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the bleakest time of the year in Lapland. The unrelenting darkness and extreme cold above the Arctic Circle drive everyone just a little insane . . . perhaps enough to kill.
A beautiful Somali immigrant is found dead in a snowfield, her body gruesomely mutilated, a racial slur carved into her chest. Heading the murder investigation is Inspector Kari Vaara, the lead detective of the small-town police force. The vicious killing may have been a hate crime, a sex crime – or one and the same. Vaara knows he must keep this potentially explosive case out of the national headlines or else it will send shock waves across Finland, an insular nation afraid to face its own xenophobia.
The demands of the investigation begin to take their toll on Vaara and his marriage. His young American wife, Kate, newly pregnant with their first child, is struggling to adapt to both the unforgiving Arctic climate and the Finnish culture of silence and isolation. Meanwhile Vaara himself, haunted by his rough childhood and failed first marriage, discovers that the past keeps biting at his heels: He suspects that the rich man for whom his ex-wife left him years ago may be the killer.
Endless night can drive anyone to murder.
Andrew for the TripFiction Team
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Great books set in Lapland: May I humbly suggest Olivier Truc’s Sami thriller FORTY DAYS WITHOUR SHADOW? (published 2014 in my translation) and shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association International Dagger). Featuring Klemet Nango and Nina Nansen of the Reindeer Police (who really are a thing).
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Hi Louise, thank you so much for the recommendation! I’ve just added it to the site, it looks great!
The nearest I can get is Iceland! I have read 3 good books by Quentin Bates. They are murder mysteries featuring a female police sergeant . I think I might read them again soon! They are “Cold Comfort”, “Chilled to the Bone” and”Frozen out”. The titles say it all .