Ice Moon - Tapa blanda

"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)

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.