The Seventh Winter

THE SEVENTH WINTER Some secrets lie beneath the snow.Others hide in the memories of survivors. In remote Swedish Lapland,businessman Gustav Eklund is found murdered in his locked study.Detective Sofia Lind soon discovers that every seven years,Gustav and five influential people paid 147,000 kronor to bury a terrible secret. Twenty-one years ago,seven teenagers entered the frozen wilderness near Kallvik.Official records say only six were there.One boy died,and the others returned.But an old photograph proves there were seven. As Sofia investigates missing records,altered identities and forgotten hospital files,she uncovers a chilling link between three children,a winter expedition and a death that may have been staged.Then those who protected the truth for decades begin to disappear. Someone remembers what happened beneath the ice.Someone will kill to keep it buried. Sofia must uncover the seventh person's identity before the past claims another victim. THE SEVENTH WINTER is a gripping Scandinavian crime thriller about buried identities,family secrets and a lie that has lasted generations. Because the darkest truth is not what happened,but what everyone agreed to forget.