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Author Truc, Olivier.

Title Forty days without shadow : an Arctic thriller / Olivier Truc ; translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie.

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F TRUC OLIVIER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F TRUC, OLIVIER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Mysteries  M TRUC OLIVIER    Check Shelf
Edition First trade paperback edition.
Description 470 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Originally published in France in 2012 under the title Le dernier Lapon by Editions Metailie" -- Title page verso.
Summary "The international award-winning, bestselling phenomenon, now available in English for the first time. Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people. But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen : an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection, it was due to go on tour with a UN exhibition in a few short weeks. Hours later, a man is murdered. Mattis, one of the last Sami reindeer herders, is found dead in his gumpy. Are the two crimes connected? In a town fraught with tension--between the indigenous Samis fighting to keep their culture alive, the ultra-Lutheran Scandinavian colonists concerned with propagating their own religion, and the greedy geologists eager to mine the region's ore deposits--it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes. Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway, must find the perpetrators before it's too late... This edition includes a reading group guide" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Police -- Lapland -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Reindeer herders -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- Fiction.
Lapland -- Fiction.
Added Author Lalaurie, Louise Rogers, translator.
ISBN 9781455547593 (paperback)
145554759X (paperback)
9781455547586 (ebook)
9781478983002 (audio download)
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