Nordic Horror Series: Book 5: Children of the Midnight Sun

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WORLD ENGLISH: HarperCollins

CROATIA: Planetopia
ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat
FINLAND: Gummerus
FRANCE: Editions Leduc.s

Original title: Valkean yön lapset

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Class/genre: Young Adults

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A remote island. The mystery of murdered children. A nightmare in the middle of the most beautiful midsummer.

  • Nordic Horror: When the days are short, the nightmares are long – YA horror with a Nordic twist!

Book #5 Children of the Midnight Sun is a standalone title in the Nordic Horror Series.

16-year-old Dia is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother on a remote island, where a dark secret is revealed.

Dia is returning from her violin lesson when a menacing group of youths begin to follow her. Dia can escape them with the help of magic she learned as a child and the youth get lost in the forest. However, Dia is soon accused of drugging them. As punishment, she is sent to live with her grandmother on a remote island she fears. Dia is forced to confront her old fears and ends up in danger while solving the mystery of murdered children from decades ago.

The Nordic Horror series is a new horror series from the Nordics, where down-to-earth realism, northern darkness and cold, mystery, murder and mythology are woven together into a nightmarish drapery in the darkest corners of welfare society.

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