The Girl without Skin

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- My wife AKA 'The Crime Wife' has a reading diet that consists exclusively of crime fiction. She has a particular fondness for Scandi-noir. She is also economical when it comes to talking about a book, "It was good" or "It was very good". The best indicator is when I find it hard to evoke any response from her and her normal busyness stalls for hours at a time because she is glued to the story. This novel was one of those. Craig Kirchner

‘This intricate crime novel is incredibly thrilling, and offers some genuine surprises.’  * Finals Krimiside * ‘The plot is gruesome, believable and incredibly tense.’ * Bogfidusen * ‘Mads Peder Nordbo has written a macabre but engrossing Arctic crime novel about incest and corruption.’ * Jyllands-Posten * ‘Lucky Nordbo has given his main character a troubled past, which makes it plausible that he would fling himself fearlessly into investigating the older killings that breath new life—and death—into a corrupt political present.’ * Børsen * ‘Mads Peder Nordbo writes with great insight into the environment of Greenland, in which the nearly unbearable events play out.’ * Jysk Fynske Medier * ‘The Girl Without Skin is large parts a classical crime combined with a thriller’s intensity—but just as much social criticism.’ * VG Norway * ‘The Girl Without Skin has everything the heart of a true crime fan could desire. Murder, eeriness, shivers, superstition, terrible secrets – but at the same time you can feel the author's affection for Greenland.’ * Krimifan * ‘This intricate crime novel mixes a grisly plot with interesting insights into Greenland’s history and culture.’ * Canberra Weekly * ‘While there are similarities to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, Nordbo’s writing is far more poetic. Though dazzled by the icecap’s beauty, he’s not blinded to the darkness of man.’ * SA Weekend * ‘A very satisfying thriller. Packed to the brim with grisly murders, corrupt officials, and sinister secrets, all set against the bleak, yet oddly beautiful, Greenlandic landscape, the bar has certainly been set quite high for the series to come.’ * AU Review * ‘A grippingly atmospheric yarn… As danger mounts, the landscape, weather and people of the former Danish colony are piercingly observed. Chilling.’  * Sunday Times * ‘A complex atmospheric and menacing read…the story is enmeshed in the culture and politics of Greenland and the relationship with Denmark…it’s a nail biting murder mystery, the action takes over and the story hurtles to a riveting denouement, but it’s also an insight into a part of the world that we don’t normally get to see.’ * NB Magazine [UK] * Fans of Scandinavian crime fiction will find this a thoroughly atmospheric, melancholy and ultra-graphic thriller that casts a socially critical eye – attributes that are all the calling cards of Nordic noir.…Greenland provides a new and interesting setting, with some of the native culture woven into the story.” * Crime Fiction Lover [UK] * ‘Offer[s] intriguing glimpses of Greenland, its relentless summer light and oppressive winter darkness. While the mystery is dramatically resolved, readers will want to learn what's next. . . Fans of Nordic crime fiction have a new author to follow.” * Kirkus *