Ice Moon

Ice Moon

by Jan Costin Wagner (Author), John Brownjohn (Translator)

Synopsis

When a young woman dies peacefully in her sleep, her husband sits distraught at her side. Returning to his job at the Finland CID he finds that a murder inquiry is just beginning. A woman has been smothered while she slept and, as the case unfolds, others will be found having met death in the same eerily tranquil way. The young policeman, stricken with his grief, starts to feel an affinity with this humane killer. Meanwhile the murderer's dysfunctional relationship with his own cracked personality spawns behaviour which grows increasingly intense.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Dec 2006

ISBN 10: 0099474786
ISBN 13: 9780099474784
Book Overview: Violence and gentleness are entwined in this haunting psychological thriller.

Media Reviews
Intriguing and touching * Independent *
To create an investigator who is both admirable and troubled... and yet individual and sympathetic, is a gift, and Wagner has it -- Heather O'Donoghue * Times Literary Supplement *
Haunting and disturbing... A strange and clever psychological thriller that manages at once to be both chilling and refreshing * The Times *
Intriguing and touching * Independent on Sunday *
Wagner is not interested in ... catching a serial killer. He is writing about the mystery of death ... Rarely has a murder mystery come so close to the riddle of death. Wagner has what it takes: the ability to unnerve us * Die Zeit *
Author Bio
JAN COSTIN WAGNER was born in 1972 in Langen/Hesse near Frankfurt. After studying German language, literature and history at Frankfurt University, he went on to work as a journalist and freelance writer. He divides his time between Germany and Finland (the home country of his wife). His first crime novel featuring Detective Kimmo Joentaa was Ice Moon (2006) and Silence (2010), the second in the series, won the 2008 German Crime Prize. His more recent books include The Winter of the Lions and A Light in a Dark House.