QAANAAQ / Mo Malo | Linwood Messina

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Author:

Mo Malø

Publication Date:

Editions de la Marinière
May 2018

Rights Sold

Rights Sold:

Iceland: N29
Italy: Piemme
S. Korea: DoDo Publishing

Additional Info

QAANAAQ

Original Language: French
Rights Holder: Editions de la Martinière (via 2Seas Agency)

A thick blanket of snow, motionless icebergs, crepuscular light: life in Greenland seems peaceful enough. But beyond the landscapes’ virginal snow lies tension between the natives and the settlers and the threat of inherent danger. When a series of unexplained murders occurs, a Danish inspector of Inuit descent is dispatched to the scene. His name? Qaanaaq.

Qaanaaq Adriensen, an expert in criminal cases in Copenhagen, is sent to investigate a strange series of murders. But not just anywhere. On the Greenland ice sheet, a disputed territory fought over by several nations, the bodies of four workers have been found in shreds. It is winter, when daylight never comes. Not easy to see things clearly. Especially for Qaanaaq. Having renounced his Inuit ancestry, returning to his country of origin brings back ghosts from the past.

Faced with polar bear hunting and snowstorms, Qaanaaq discovers that Greenland is anything but a white desert of calm and serenity. The isolation, harsh climate and tensions between the natives and the European ‘settlers’ reveal another side to the snow. In sharp contrast to how we imagine the land of ice.

Born in 1968, Mo Malø has written several books under different names. He lives in France. Qaanaaq is his first crime novel.

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