The sea is an oil gray.
From this sheet of frozen water protrudes a small island in the shape of an elbow as if a body were entangled in tar.
We approach its silent quay, where the trees, emaciated by the cold, have covered the ground with dead leaves.
The branches creak under our feet as Johana Gustawsson, in a white parka and black moonboots, walks through the middle of the woods.
When she stops in front of a brick and iron building, a sort of scaffolding castle surrounded by planks and tarpaulins.
It was in his gardens, on the island of Storholmen, that a young woman was found hanged, a pair of scissors hanging around her neck.
At least that's what happened in his latest novel,
Yule Island.
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In 2012, a policeman named Karl made the macabre discovery.
Nine years pass when we turn the page and Emma Lindhal, art expert, is responsible for drawing up the expensive inventory of the Gussman family, the fourth Swedish fortune, in the famous building.
Some…
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