THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN
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Mads Peder Nordbo is Danish but has lived in Greenland for several years and works at the town hall in Nuuk. He holds degrees in literature, communications and philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Stockholm. He is the author of five novels; his two latest books will published in eighteen languages. The Girl Without Skin is the first to be published in English.
THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN
"They were near the edge of the glacier. The sea beneath the helicopter was dense with pack ice. In front of them, the endless whiteness stretched as far as the light could reach. It hurt his eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except in one place. One spot. Right where the mummified Norseman had been found and Aqqalu had kept watch. There, the ice was glossy red."
When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed—exactly like the victims in a gruesome series of murders that terrified the remote town of Nuuk in the 1970s.
As Matt investigates, he is shocked by the deprivation and brutal violence the locals take for granted. Unable to trust the police, he begins to suspect a cover-up. It’s only when he meets a young Inuit woman, Tupaarnaq, convicted of killing her parents and two small sisters, that Matt starts to realise how deep this story goes—and how much danger he is in.
SUMMARY
Matthew Cave is a 28-year-old Danish journalist. Feeling responsible for the death of his girlfriend and unborn daughter in a traffic accident, his bid to escape reality has driven him to the remote Arctic capital of Nuuk.
When a mummified body is discovered on the ice sheet, the first well-preserved Norse Viking ever found, Matthew is sent to cover the story. Everything is set up for a world sensation and the small community is holding its breath. Articles, photo shoots and research teams – everything is in place. But already the next day, chaos breaks out.
The mummy has disappeared and the police officer who was keeping watch at the discovery site has been split open and his entrails removed. He is lying naked on the ice with his belly inside out.
Back in Nuuk, and to Matthew’s great annoyance, a firm lid is put on the case – both on the sensation with the Viking mummy and the killing of the policeman.
Instead, Matthew strays off into a shelved murder case from 1973, where the method of killing resembles the one used on the police officer out on the ice. They are identical murders – except that the four men killed in 1973 had also been flayed when they were found. The same four men were under investigation for sexual abuse of their daughters.
Matthew soon realises that two of the abused girls disappeared without a trace while the case was still going on. And the same did the police officer, Jakob, in charge of investigating both the assaults and the murders.
For Matthew, the cases from 1973 and 2014 merge and he quickly gets so deeply involved in the bloody murders of the past and present that there is no going back. He quickly finds himself as the main suspect in the case and the only person he really dares to trust is a young Greenlandic woman who, fourteen years old, killed her father in the same way as the murders Matthew is working on.
Her name is Tupaarnaq. Her body is covered in tattoos. Her skin was worn away when she was a child, but her will is as strong as the mountains around Nuuk.
Matthew and Tupaarnaq find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game in which they are not only wanted by the police, but are also having their lives threatened by physical echoes from the past.
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Mads Peder Nordbo is Danish but has lived in Greenland for several years and works at the town hall in Nuuk. He holds degrees in literature, communications and philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Stockholm. He is the author of five novels; his two latest books will published in eighteen languages. The Girl Without Skin is the first to be published in English.
THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN
"They were near the edge of the glacier. The sea beneath the helicopter was dense with pack ice. In front of them, the endless whiteness stretched as far as the light could reach. It hurt his eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except in one place. One spot. Right where the mummified Norseman had been found and Aqqalu had kept watch. There, the ice was glossy red."
When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed—exactly like the victims in a gruesome series of murders that terrified the remote town of Nuuk in the 1970s.
As Matt investigates, he is shocked by the deprivation and brutal violence the locals take for granted. Unable to trust the police, he begins to suspect a cover-up. It’s only when he meets a young Inuit woman, Tupaarnaq, convicted of killing her parents and two small sisters, that Matt starts to realise how deep this story goes—and how much danger he is in.
SUMMARY
Matthew Cave is a 28-year-old Danish journalist. Feeling responsible for the death of his girlfriend and unborn daughter in a traffic accident, his bid to escape reality has driven him to the remote Arctic capital of Nuuk.
When a mummified body is discovered on the ice sheet, the first well-preserved Norse Viking ever found, Matthew is sent to cover the story. Everything is set up for a world sensation and the small community is holding its breath. Articles, photo shoots and research teams – everything is in place. But already the next day, chaos breaks out.
The mummy has disappeared and the police officer who was keeping watch at the discovery site has been split open and his entrails removed. He is lying naked on the ice with his belly inside out.
Back in Nuuk, and to Matthew’s great annoyance, a firm lid is put on the case – both on the sensation with the Viking mummy and the killing of the policeman.
Instead, Matthew strays off into a shelved murder case from 1973, where the method of killing resembles the one used on the police officer out on the ice. They are identical murders – except that the four men killed in 1973 had also been flayed when they were found. The same four men were under investigation for sexual abuse of their daughters.
Matthew soon realises that two of the abused girls disappeared without a trace while the case was still going on. And the same did the police officer, Jakob, in charge of investigating both the assaults and the murders.
For Matthew, the cases from 1973 and 2014 merge and he quickly gets so deeply involved in the bloody murders of the past and present that there is no going back. He quickly finds himself as the main suspect in the case and the only person he really dares to trust is a young Greenlandic woman who, fourteen years old, killed her father in the same way as the murders Matthew is working on.
Her name is Tupaarnaq. Her body is covered in tattoos. Her skin was worn away when she was a child, but her will is as strong as the mountains around Nuuk.
Matthew and Tupaarnaq find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game in which they are not only wanted by the police, but are also having their lives threatened by physical echoes from the past.
http://www.madspedernordbo.com/the-gi... Pigen uden hud
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Thank you Lisa. I am so happy that you liked the book that much. The next volume (Cold fear) is on the way in English – I have seen the translation and the cover. I don’t know the exact date but I believe it will be published in Australia fall 2019. The third volume (The woman with the death mask) will be out in Danish next august – and in English fall 2020 I guess. Thank you once again. All the best, Mads.