The Dark Light of the Midnight Sun, by Cecilia Ekbäck

Every living being is subject to Cardiac rhtyms, established by the hours of daylight and darkness of the night. However, animals that live in the areas closest to the poles, where the effect of the midnight sun occurs, have known how to adapt to this particular permanence of the star king. Let's say that animals dispense with this biological regulation to be able to get into the environment.

For the human being it is not so simple. We can get used to it, but we are not free to suffer Harmful influences on this sunny hour overdose. We have all heard it said that in Scandinavian countries the affection of this astral "anomaly" can cause depression and other psychic imbalances ...

In any case, in this historical novel the peculiar intervention of the sun is just an excuse to settle in Lapland, that area shared between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia that sounds so exotic to any European from the center or the south.

In 1855, the mysterious midnight sun places us in Sweden, where heinous chain murders have been carried out by a Lapp aborigine. The murderer's motivations become the leitmotif of the plot. Because at all times it is sensed that the repetitive homicidal instinct of the nomad must find a compelling justification.

Mount Blackhasen appears to be the criminal's sole confidant. And Magnus, the geologist sent to unravel the tragic event seems to be the only one who can investigate and decipher what the deaths might hide. Impulsive murders may only appear so. Maguns begins to link the deaths with mysterious circumstances in the area, a kind of premeditation of death in collusion with the environment, with the ancient inhabitants of the place and with the need to survive.

If we add the general nineteenth-century touch to the investigation of the murders as an extraordinary complement to the setting of the story, we are presented with a novel to enjoy and savor, an unparalleled journey to a mysterious not-so-remote past.

Days without nights, games of dim lights that cause more shadows than clarity. Cold, a cold that penetrates the reader's bones in that icy setting of Nordic suspense. Cecilia Ekbak as one of the greatest writers within the inexhaustible mine of thriller writers from these countries so close and so far in turn.

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