Girl Without Skin

The Girl Without Skin Book Description They had approached the edge of the glacier. The sea under the helicopter was covered with ice. The endless whiteness in front of them was reaching as far as the light could reach, burning Matthew's eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except for one place. Just one point. The very place where the Norse mummy was found, where Aqqalu stood guard. There the ice was bright red. A mummified Viking body is discovered in a crack on the edge of an ice floe, and journalist Matthew Cave is sent there to report on the incident. But the next day, the mummy disappears, and the police officer on duty is found naked and skinned: just like the victims of the serial murders that terrified the remote city of Nuuk in the 1970s. As Matt investigates the matter, he is astonished by the local people's insensitivity to this brutal violence. He cannot trust the police either, and even suspects that the events may have been covered up. When he meets a young Inuit woman named Tupaarnaq, who was convicted of murdering her parents and two younger sisters, he only realizes how deep this situation goes and what danger he himself is in. (From the Promotional Bulletin)