A gripping suspense thriller from bestselling Swedish author Carin Gerhardsen. Dark secrets haunt a group of strangers who cross paths in the snow.
Carin Gerhardsen is a mathematician and internationally best-selling author who made her literary debut in 1992. She is best known for her Hammarby series of crime novels, and her books have sold three million copies and been translated into 25 languages. She lives in Stockholm. Ian Giles has a PhD in Scandinavian literature from the University of Edinburgh. He translates fiction and non-fiction from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, and is the Chair of the Swedish-English Literary Translators' Association. He has translated Camilla Läckberg, David Lagercrantz and Gustaf Skördeman, among others. He lives in Edinburgh.
Plotted with the complexity of a 19th-century labyrinth
*New York Times*
Skillfully plotted... The author's mastery of tone imbues a largely
tragic tale with touches of humor. By turns touching and
terrifying, this nail-biter deserves a wide audience
*Publishers Weekly Starred Review*
A very exciting new voice from the North
*Ragnar Jónasson*
Gerhardsen was a mathematician before becoming a writer, which
might explain the precision with which she's mapped her characters'
backstories and trajectories. Black Ice is both an intricate puzzle
and a probing psychological study of flawed people as they navigate
a series of moral dilemmas, often making the wrong choice or
misunderstanding the actions of another. Ultimately, the book's
greatest strength lies in its messy humanity
*Air Mail*
All our speculations and conceptions concerning the plot's reality
are bound to fall apart as Gerhardsen enjoys teasing her readership
in a masterful manner, while the main characters are drawn in a way
that leaves room for various theories regarding their actual role
in the story's events
*Tap the Line magazine*
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