Although Maija is a midwife by trade, her salary isn’t enough to support her husband and two unmarried daughters. She is convinced that moving inland is the only way for Paavo to find a new job. Maija asks her brother, who lives beside the mountain, if they can swap houses for a while.
They are a very close family and protective of each other.ĭue to paranoia and numerous fears about the water, Paavo can’t work at sea anymore. They have two daughters, Frederika and her younger sister, Dorotea. Outspoken and bold, Maija often tells Paavo what to do. Paavo, the head of the family and a fisherman, is married to Maija. The main characters are a Finnish family. The people look to the church and their local priest for guidance and comfort. Many strange and tragic events have unfolded on the mountain. The community is best known for its proximity to an ominous Swedish mountain, Blackåsen. With little contact with other towns and villages, it is the type of place where everyone knows everyone else. Set in a small community in a quiet valley, Wolf Winter takes place in Swedish Lapland in the winter of 1717. She studied marketing at university and worked as a journalist before writing novels full-time. A Swedish author who writes mysteries and thrillers for adults, Ekbäck’s novels are typically set in Sweden.
Wolf Winter (2014), a historical thriller by Cecilia Ekbäck, centers on a murder investigation in an isolated 18th-century Swedish town, and what happens when a particularly harsh winter descends on an already tense community.
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