Two siblings, one crime

Two siblings, one crime. One longburied secret. Seventeen-year-old Ellen never wanted a holiday.

What is there to do in a mining town in the northernmost corner of the country, with no one but her brother Simon – a boy with Asperger’s and obsessed with detective stories – for company?

Nothing, until they stumble upon a horrifying crime scene that brings them into a generations-long conflict between the townspeople and the native Sami. When the police dismiss Simon’s findings, he decides to track down the perpetrator himself. Ellen reluctantly helps, drawn in by a link between the crime and the siblings’ own past. What started off as a tedious holiday soon escalates into a dangerous journey through hatred, lies and self-discovery that makes Ellen question not only the relationship to her parents, but also her own identity.

Greenland is a SwedishEnglish writer who now lives in Edinburgh.

She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham and a BA in English from the University of Exeter. In 2019 she began a PGDE course at the University of Edinburgh to become a Secondary school English teacher. Embers is her first novel.