It is called kaamos—two weeks of unrelenting
darkness and soul-numbing cold that falls upon
Finnish Lapland, a hundred miles into the Arctic
Circle, just before Christmas. Some get through it
with the help of cheap Russian alcohol; some sink
into depression.
This year, it may have driven someone mad enough
to commit murder. The brutalized body of a
beautiful Somali woman has been found in the
snow, and Inspector Kari Vaara must find her killer.
It will be a challenge in a place where ugly things
lurk under frozen surfaces, and silence is a way
of life.