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  • Location: Stockholm

Yule Island

Yule Island

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2000s: Come inside the most infamous manor house of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families

  • ISBN: 978-1914585975
  • Translator: David Warriner
  • Genre: Gothic, Horror, Thriller, Translated Fictioin

What you need to know before your trail

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 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 his failure to solve the first case come rushing back. Could this young woman’s tragic death somehow hold the key?

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…

Travel Guide

Storholmen, Stockholm

The islands of Stockholm are some of the prettiest and most unexplored places. Well, this author takes to one of the best and where the houses are posh and huge! Full of secrets too.

In the novel , a murder happens in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen. The island is real and the author evokes it with style. It is very unique and intriguing. You will want to spend Yule time on it! Minus the murders of course.

Makes you wonder what goes on behind the curtains of these houses we all covet.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Yule Island

Destination: Storholmen, Stockholm  Author/guide: Johana Gustawsson Departure Time: 2000s

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