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Hidden in Snow (The Åre Murders Book 1) by [Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy]

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The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime.

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.

As subzero temperatures drop even further, a treacherous blizzard sweeps toward Åre. Hanna and Daniel’s investigation is getting more desperate by the hour. Lost or abducted, either way time is running out for the missing girl. Each new clue closes in on something far more sinister than either Hanna or Daniel imagined. In this devious novel by the bestselling author of the Sandhamn Murders series, discover what it will take to solve a case when the truth can be so easily hidden in the coming storm.

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How much do parents really know about the lives of their teenagers? Amanda is a good student. Everybody likes Viktor. Ebba had a great part-time job. But in Viveca Sten’s Hidden in Snow, it’s the secret and private lives of these teens that hold the answers to former officer Hanna Ahlander’s reluctant investigation.

Hanna had hoped that the time spent at her sister’s ski lodge would be a chance to reset her life after her boss asked her to leave her position in Stockholm. Instead, when local girl Amanda Halvorssen goes missing, Hanna can’t stop asking questions of Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog: Why had Amanda’s grades recently taken a dip? Why does Viktor seem so on edge? And why won’t Ebba talk to the authorities?

The start of a new series featuring both Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, Hidden in Snow is a shocking page-turner that made me bundle up tighter in a blanket against the snowy, claustrophobic pages.

—Jessica Tribble Wells, Editor

About the Author

Viveca Sten is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Sandhamn Murders series, which includes Buried in Secret, In Bad Company, In the Name of Truth, In the Shadow of Power, In Harm’s Way, In the Heat of the Moment, Tonight You’re Dead, Guiltless, Closed Circles, and Still Waters. Since 2008, the series has sold more than seven million copies, establishing her as one of Sweden’s most popular authors. Set on the island of Sandhamn, the novels have been adapted into a Swedish-language TV series shot on location and seen by ninety million viewers around the world. Viveca lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children, but she alternates between Sandhamn in the summer and Åre in the winter, where she writes and vacations with her family. For more information visit www.vivecasten.com.

Marlaine Delargy lives in Shropshire in the United Kingdom. She studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and she taught German for almost twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson; Helene Tursten; John Ajvide Lindqvist; Therese Bohman; Theodor Kallifatides; Johan Theorin, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010; and Henning Mankell, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2018. Marlaine has also translated nine books in Viveca Sten’s Sandhamn Murders series.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09RWR44VC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Crossing (Dec 1 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6269 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 434 pages

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Viveca Sten is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Sandhamn Murders series, which includes Buried in Secret, In Bad Company, In the Name of Truth, In the Shadow of Power, In Harm’s Way, In the Heat of the Moment, Tonight You’re Dead, Guiltless, Closed Circles and Still Waters. Since 2008, her books have sold more than 7,5 million copiesworl-wide and the tv-adaptation has reached more than 100 million tv-viewers around the globe, establishing her as one of Scandinavia’s most popular authors. Her new exciting crime series, The Åre Murders, is set in the Swedish ski resort Åre, where the splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for bone-chilling crimes. Viveca lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children, but she alternates between Sandhamn in the summer and Åre in the winter time. For more information visit www.vivecasten.com.

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Great start to a new series

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 1, 2023

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I had not previously read books by this author before but certainly will do so again. Set in a small town in a beautiful ski and resort area of Sweden, an 18 year girl is reported missing after leaving a party during a winter's storm. A police officer from Stockholm who works on abuse cases, is staying at her sister's holiday home when this happens. She volunteers to help with the search and later becomes involved with the case. The characters are well developed, the plot is complex and there are many leads that go nowhere before the mystery is solved. It is not surprising that this author's previous books have been made into a TV series. This is a great start to a new series and made me want to read more.

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Enjoyable thriller

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2022

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A murder mystery thriller set in an awesome location. I enjoyed the story and characters and was very happy with the ending. A good, solid story. I will read more from this author.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 15, 2023

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Looking forward to reading another books by Viveca Sten

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good and informative book. well written.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 12, 2023

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good book.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 3, 2023

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Fantastic books
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I couldn't put this book down!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 31, 2022

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This is the best book I have read in ages. It is a real page-turner. I also enjoyed the way the author wrote in the present tense. This added to the immediacy of the story, putting the reader at each scene. I will be reading the next book as soon as I can.

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Donna M. Thornton

Exciting thriller..well written.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 21, 2023

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I really liked the setting and the pace of this exciting novel

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 10, 2022

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I didn't finish this book. It is a soap opera disguised as a mystery. If the family and personal issues were cut back it could have been readable.

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Tambok

Above Average Police Procedural

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2022

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Hidden In Snow is the first in a new series by massively popular Swedish thriller writer Viveca Sten.

Set in the exclusive Ski resort village of Are near the Norwegian border it features police officers Daniel Lindskog and Hanna Ahlander,both in Are for different reasons after bad experiences in big cities. Lindskog transferred from Gothenburg after a narcotics case left him a potential target of serious criminals while Ahlander is under a cloud after not toeing the line over the cover-up of a serious crime committed by a colleague in Stockholm and is taking time out out her sister's luxury villa.
When a local teenager disappears the small Are police force is stretched to its limits,not least Lindskog with a rocky marriage to contend with as well.
With her job problems and the breakup of her relationship turning her to drink Ahlander takes an interest in the case,impresses the local cops and is seconded to the local force.

What follows is an above average police procedural as it seems,small village or not,there are a lot of people in Are with secrets and up to no good with plenty of suspects coming under the scrutiny of the new team of Ahlander and Lindskog.
The book isn't just about the actual crime ,it also shows the effect of events on the victim's family and friends as they come to terms with their loss.

As this is the first in a new series there is quite a bit of "character introduction" as various backstories are laid out but this doesn't adversely affect the flow of the tale and there are plenty of promising threads started to pave the way for future storylines.
The story flows well,translator Marlaine Delargy deserves a mention for doing an excellent job, the book is involving , the characters are interesting and this is a great start to what I'm sure will be another extremely successful series for Viveca Sten.
A definite 5 stars.

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MaggieDee

Does not Disappoint

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 9, 2022

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As I have read all of the Sandhamm books, I wasn’t sure what to expect with a new cast of characters. However, I was not disappointed and warmed to these characters immediately. They are not infallible, who is? Believable characters in any novel are key to my enjoyment. The plot? Well it is set in an area of Sweden that I have never heard of before, but as with the Sandhamm series, the location almost becomes a character itself. The vivid descriptions of the region are obviously written by an author who has a close affinity with and a deep affection for it. The storyline is very contemporary and does not lapse into Pollyanna Land with fairytale endings. Both gritty and poignant we meet a group of characters who struggle with everyday living but who also have real concern for others who are also struggling against powerful people who have no concern for the weak and vulnerable. Another enjoyable read from Viveca Sten. Can’t wait for the next in this series!

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Lynda Kelly

Very Promising New Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2022

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This was an easy Kindle First choice for me this month as I'm a huge fan of this author's Sandhamn series. I enjoyed it though not as much as that series though this was the start of a whole new set of characters to get acquainted with, so that might be why. Myself and the characters in the Sandhamn series are WELL known to each other now.
I liked Hanna and also Daniel, the main 2 characters in this story. I think they'll become a really good team.
I wasn't keen on all the Americanisations but I'm pretty sure it's always the case with these translations. I usually overlook them but I HATE it when they write as they tend to speak there, as in "I haven't gotten around to writing my report yet".....awful English.
An odd expression was a 'church village' which I'd not heard of before. Something that did irritate me a lot was the repeated mention of Advent candle bridges. They kept getting a mention. I was aware it was set around Christmas, we really didn't need reminding THAT often, trust me. Something else mentioned was a bad design of a police station as it would be easy for someone to block emergency police despatches......why would they in the first place ? I thought that a peculiar observation to make. Then a rescuer/searcher for a missing girl was told by a policeman at one point that the missing girl's clothes had been found and he said straightaway that that was a good thing as it meant she was still alive......not quite sure why or how he'd make that deduction !!! Another comment that made me laugh was that when Daniel was feeding his baby she had formula milk. Well, he was hardly breastfeeding her, was he, whatever the trans brigade might have you believe !! We also kept being reminded that Hanna used to work with abused women and didn't keep needing a reminder of that, either.....
Shocking that of all crimes involving a threat to life that 85% are committed by men and another shocking statistic was that almost 90% of those convicted of violent crimes are men, too. Men really aren't nice people, it seems......I hadn't known that Sweden took in more immigrants than anyplace else in recent years, but I have heard of the extraordinary rise in their rape statistics which run alongside all this immigration. I bet they're regretting it now as we should be here, too, since we're rapidly catching them up.....
You do have to wonder in the 21st Century too as to why DNA results still take so long to process and why that hasn't been speeded up a lot more than it has and also become a lot more affordable......
Panic stricken needed a hyphen, I noticed a couple of apostrophe mistakes and is was written at one point and not are but that was it for mistakes which is pretty good going.
I really liked how this ended using the headline idea. That was very effective, I thought. A super photo of the author as well at the back of the book.
I look forward to reading the next in this series for sure. She writes great books and I was really shocked to see one by her in the Kindle First programme. For me that was straightaway always going to be my pick, though !!

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Mark

Hidden In Snow -

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 10, 2022

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This was one of my free first read books. To start with I found the writing style quite difficult to read, but I did get used to it as the book went on. Whilst the story centres around the police investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl, who is eventually found dead, the storyline centres around the characters personal situation more than a police procedure plot. I found the first half to three quarters a little slow for me. It did get more exciting towards the end, but lacked a little for my personal liking. I would say 3.75 out of 5.

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AliY

Wow, a first-rate new series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 2, 2022

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I hadn’t read anything by Viveca Sten before, but I enjoy Scandinavian crime series on the television so I thought I would give it a try - this will not be the last, it’s an excellent crime series. The main character Hanna is very likable and you want to support her in the face of injustice. The intricate plot has many twists. I’m already looking forward to the next in the series.

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