Cecilia Ekbäck’s Wolf Winter is one of those novels that tries to balance a real life crime with supernatural elements, like most of what I’ve read by Jennifer McMahon. And like Jennifer McMahon’s novels, it’s….mostly successful. “You have this trait… of looking for the mysterious and letting yourself be overcome.” Set in Swedish Lapland in 1717, Maija, Paavo and their daughters Frederika and Dorotea have arrived at a new homestead, hoping to find more success than they did in their native Finland. Soon after moving to the mountain, they realize […]