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Friday, December 8, 2023
Yule Island (#1 Lidingö Mysteries series) by Johanna Gustawsson (translated by David Warriner) @orendabooks @RandomTTours #BlogTour #YuleIsland
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***Winner of the Cultura Ligue de l'Imaginaire Award 2023***
`Remember her name. Johana Gustawsson has become a leading figure in French crime fiction [and] Yule Island is impossible to put down´
Le Monde
Book Blurb
An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia's deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly captivating historical thriller, based on a true story.
Art expert Emma Lindahl is anxious when she's asked to appraise the antiques and artefacts in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found.
Emma must work alone, and with the Gussman family apparently avoiding her, she sees virtually no one in the house. Do they have something to hide?
As she goes about her painstaking work and one shocking discovery yields clues that lead to another, Emma becomes determined to uncover the secrets of the house and its occupants.
When the lifeless body of another young woman is found in the icy waters surrounding the island, Detective Karl Rosén arrives to investigate, and memories of his failure to solve the first case come rushing back. Could this young woman's tragic death somehow hold the key to the first?
Battling her own demons, Emma joins forces with Karl to embark upon a chilling investigation, plunging them into horrifying secrets from the past – Viking rites and tainted love – and Scandinavia's deepest, darkest winter…
My thoughts
We have three perspectives throughout Yule Island Emma, Karl and Viktoria through these voices we are brought a chilling and shocking story of murder and sacrifice.
Viktoria is a voice from the past. Now working on the island of Storholmen she becomes worried for her daughter, Josephine, who is concerned for her friend Thor who may be being mistreated. Would her employer really harm a child?
Emma is an art expert brought to Storholmen to appraise the Gussman family collection. The island has an infamous history when a teenage girl was killed and left hanging from a tree located on the Gussman property. Emma is dubious about working there but it's such an amazing opportunity. She becomes increasingly alarmed when she finds a note sparking memories of a tragedy never forgotten. She is compelled to look for answers. Will she find them?
Karl is a police detective. He is called to the scene of a body found dead in the ice cold waters surrounding the island. It's a young woman. He was the detective on the unsolved murder of the victim found hanging on Storholmen nearly a decade ago. This brings back memories of that unsolved case. Are there connections? Will Karl be able to solve this murder?
As Emma and Karl pool information could there be resolution for both?
Johana Gustawasson writes impeccably bringing a story of murder, Viking ritual, loss and guilt. Layer upon layer of mystery, darkness and mind blowing twist upon twist shocking and agonising in what they reveal.
The characters are captivating, the story is darkly complex and quite brilliant in its execution. It was a really great read, this book is simply a-maz-ing! I highly recommend it.
Thanks
With thanks to Anne at RandomThingsTours and to Orenda Books for the invite to join this amazing BlogTour.
Thanks also to Orenda Books for bringing this wonderfully well written and translated book to English readers and to David Warriner for his terrific translation.
BlogTour
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Wrap up warm … you're travelling to Sweden in the middle of Scandinavia's deepest, darkest winter. We are absolutely thrilled to publish Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson's atmospheric, twisty, utterly chilling new thriller, Yule Island, with divine sprayed edges, foil AND embossing. Hit your local independent or the Orenda Books website for a signed copy, or head over to Goldsboro Books for one of 250 limited-edition signed and numbered copies. Yule Island has been reprinted a record eight times in hardback in France, it won Fiction Book of the Year with France's biggest retailer, and Crime Book of the Year literally everywhere. First in the Lidingö Mysteries series, and gloriously gothic, Yule Island is TRULY special and we cannot WAIT to hear your thoughts! Get your copy now!
Translator: David Warriner translates from French and nurtures a healthy passion for Franco, Nordic and British crime fiction. Growing up in deepest Yorkshire, he developed incurable Francophilia at an early age. Emerging from Oxford with a Modern Languages degree he narrowly escaped the graduate rat race by hopping on a plane to Canada – and never looked back. More than a decade into a high-powered commercial translation career, he listened to his heart and turned his hand to the delicate art of literary translation. David has lived in France and Quebec, and now calls beautiful British Columbia home. Follow David on Twitter @givemeawave and on his website wtranslation.ca
AUTHOR
SHORTLISTED for the CWA International Dagger WINNER of the Balai de la Découverte WINNER of the Nouvelle Plume d'Argent Award WINNER of the Cultura Ligue de l'Imaginaire Award
Author: Born in Marseille, France, and with a degree in Political Science, Johana Gustawsson has worked as a journalist for the French and Spanish press and television. Her critically acclaimed Roy & Castells series, including Block 46, Keeper and Blood Song, has won the Plume d'Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d'Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards, and is now published in nineteen countries. A TV adaptation is currently under way in a French, Swedish and UK co-production. The Bleeding was a number-one bestseller in France and worldwide, the first in a new series it shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger in the UK. Yule Island – the first in the Lidingö Mysteries series, and based on a true story – has followed suit, winning the prestigious Cultura Ligue de l'Imaginaire Award, the Gujan Thrillers Festival Readers' Prize (Crime Novel of the Year) and Crime Novel of the Year at the Saint-Laurent-du-Var Polar Festival, hitting number one on the bestseller list, and reprinting five times in the first two months after publication. Johana lives in Sweden with her Swedish husband and their three sons.
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