I really enjoyed this book. Mathew Cave is a journalist from Denmark who is new to Nuuk, Greenland. He is sent to cover an amazing archeological find of a mummified corpse. The next day the mummy disappears, the policeman who was guarding it is found dead and a witness has also been murdered. Mathew is intent on getting the story and in the meantime uncovers some similar murders that took place more than 40 years before. The story has been buried and many are unwilling to let it's secrets emerge. Brutal murders, child sexual abuse and abuse of government power run rampant throughout. It's a thrilling yet dark tale. I was previously unaware of the amount of sexual abuse and rape in Greenland so this was a little eyeopening. I didn't know anything about Greenland before reading this and I enjoyed looking up real places on Google Maps and being able to see where the the story was taking place, while reading the book; it added a lot to the story. I enjoyed Mr. Nordbo's writing style and his portrayal of the brutality of some men and the ultimate kindness of others was quite refreshing. I liked this book and will read more from Mr. Nordbo. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers fro the opportunity to read an ARC in return for a honest review.
Really looked forward to reading this, the first crime novel set in Greenland I would have read..
Certainly didn't disappoint, a cracking story which I found both well written and also provided me with a greater insight into Greenland, it's culture and ways of life. Recommended.

A fabulous, fast-paced crime novel with a cast of wonderfully complex characters and a truly unique setting.

I really enjoyed this book. The author did really well with the plot of the story. He also painted a vivid picture of the landscape which really added to the story. Recommended.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This concept of this was amazing and it can say it did not disappoint. I think it is a good read and I highly recommend this book.

Matthew is a journalist who after a devastating event in Denmark returns to his home country. Greenland. While writing for the local paper Matthew is offered a story of a lifetime.. a body has been found which is thought to be a mummified corpse of a Viking.
However, the next day the body is missing and a police officer is dead. While Matthew begins to investigate he discovers a link between the prime suspect and the unsolved murders of four men killed in the 70’s.
Matthew sets out to clear the suspects name ..............

An enjoyable book

I have found the Nordic authors I have read are like heroin use and addiction, imo [perceived as have never tried it]. They are dark, horrible, intense and you barely make it through the books alive but then after uncurling from your fetal ball are blown away with how good they are [or at least commanding and thought provoking] and want more after you catch your breath. Mads is up there with Stieg Larsson with complex, dark characters, details, settings and outcomes you can't guess ahead of time. This book is a can't put down roller coaster of emotions thriller of grisly murders present and past, social issues, how they are handled and cover ups. First one Viking mummy discovery in a desolate area of Greenland that leads to a pile up of heinous murders past and present that have to be tied together somehow, though 40 years apart. It also shows the Danish concept of order and surface sameness that can hide the basest actual actions and desires and how little that culture can be transposed onto another. How easily the crimes against women and children can be glossed over rather that dealt with still in today's society as has been evidenced in how centuries of cover ups and continued allowances of sexual abuse of children are now coming out from the Vatican. If you are into pitch noire thrillers this is for you.

I really thought this was great. It may also be the first book I have ever read that was based in Greenland. This was complicated and engaging and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It actually made me so intrigued that I sat still for long stretches of time. A mummy turns up in a crevice,which leads Matt to investigate some murders that happened in the 1970s that were never solved. There is so much stuff going on in the present and the past that you will have a tough time figuring out everything before the reveal happens. I challenge you to try.

Thanks to netgalley for an early copy in return for an honest review
What an intriguing book first time reading this author and won't be my last an extremely cleaver plot that held your attention through out the whole book I can highly recommend this book to family and friends

** spoiler alert ** Everything came together in Mads book. Not the way you were expecting but it came together with the main people, Matthew, Tupaarnaq, Ottesen, the Faroe Islands Man, Abelsen, Jakob, Lisbeth and Paneeraq. Everything took it's time happening such as Lisbeth, Jakob and Paneeraq disappearing for over 40 years. Matthew and Tupaarnaq appearing after 40 years, Matthew from Denmark and Tupaarnaq from prison. Everything happens for a reason, so I would hate to write spoilers so you're going to have to read this book. You won't regret it, it's captured my interest right from the start. We have killings, small girls being abused by their fathers, being raped by their physician, being tested with drugs without their parents knowing, covered up by politicians. Everything is hidden, that's all I'm saying. I rated this book 5 stars it was up there with Stieg Larrson's "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."

The first in a new thriller series, 'The Girl without Skin' reads like an experienced Scandinavian thriller, with the exception that this one takes place in Greenland. The story was interesting enough, but I thought there were several carefully built but unbelievable coincidences. E.g. I found it hard to believe how easily Tupaarnaq, the mysterious Inuit woman, came to help Matt Cave with his investigation, instead of keeping her distance when he first encounters her.

The most fascinating part of the story were the bits of Greenland history described in this book. I was intrigued by the deadly puzzle pieces Matt Cave uncovered and put together. Now that I'm finished I don't feel as enthusiastic about it as at the beginning, but I'm far from being disappointed either.

Greenland is a cold place full of dark secrets. Matthew, a journalist is sent to look into a mummified Viking man found on Greenland ice sheet and he finds himself dragged into an old mysterious murder.
Thank you Netgalley for this great adventure.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for thew opportunity to read this book in return for a review based upon my honest opinion.

This was the second book in the series and I did not read the first book, I felt that I might have enjoyed a the book a little more if I had but altogether I don't think it was necessary as I still enjoyed the book, I just would have liked to have had more of Zoe's back story but that being said, I was hooked right from the first chapter.

When a girl is taken in to the ward in a catatonic state, Zoe takes on the case to help her, she cannot or will not tell them her name and Zoe does everything she can to help her. We learn quite a bit about mental illness in this book and I felt that it seemed really well researched and informative without ruining the story part of the book. When the medicine doesn't help, Zoe throws herself into the case with gusto and becomes obsessed with finding out who this girl is and how she can help her. She uncovers a web of lies and secrets and finds herself in over her head. Can she help this girl before it is too late? The ending of the book was a surprise and left me hanging. Cannot wait for the next book in this series.

This novel was hard to read. Its plot is very dark and full of all kinds of violence: child abuse, gruesome murders, rape and blood. I’ve read a lot of Nordic books but I’d never read one set in Greenland (is Greenland even part of the Nordic countries? Since it was founded by Danes and part of the conflict arises from the prejudice of Danish citizens against the natives, I will consider it so). The atmosphere and the plot are also very similar to those written in Scandinavia, but the culture is very different. Greenland is a vast country, but the villages are small and everybody knows each other. An influential person can control many, many things, as journalist Matthew Cave finds out when trying to investigate the mummified remains found in the ice and a series of unexplained murders in 1973. The plot in the present combines with the contents of the diary of the cop who investigated the events in the seventies, and the story doesn’t go where I was expecting it to. Trigger warning for animal lovers: there is a lot of seal hunting going on. Considering there are abused children and horrifying human remains it shouldn't have bothered me that much, but it did and I had to skip several parts, so be forewarned. This is not an easy book to read, but it’s worth it.
I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thank you, NetGalley/Text Publishing!

Greenland is a far away place that I know little about. In The Girl Without Skin, Greenland is a cold place that has a sad history of its treatment of women. A cold, wet place hiding secrets that are about to unfold in a rather unpredictable way.

Suspenseful is the first word I would use to describe this story. Matthew Cave is a journalist from Denmark who returns to Greenland after the deaths of his wife and unborn child. He is broken and chooses Greenland because it is the place of his birth. Also the last known location of his father, who sent Matthew and his mother to Denmark with the understanding that he would join them shortly. He never returned.

Matthew is placed on a story about a mummy recently discovered in a crevasse in a remote area of Greenland. No one suspects that this mummy will soon bring to light years of secrets and scandal affecting the government of Greenland. Wrapped up in the story and scandal is a young woman with a shaved head and covered neck to ankle in tattoos. Years in prison have hardened her, and she has secrets to share as well.

There were parts of this book that were clearly hard subject matter to read. There is some gore, but in a clinical sense, and not simply for sensationalism. But be warned, these are tough subjects. I found this book hard to put down for so many reasons. It was taking place in a location foreign to me. The flow of the story, traveling between 1973 and 2014, was fraught with drama, love, and tragedy. Very well written, it keeps throwing curveballs and keeps your attention. Although originally written in another language, the translation is well done. As this is the first of Nordbo’s books to be translated into English, it might be a while before getting another chance for a great Danish suspense. Read this one while you’re waiting.

An intense read with an intricate plot and harrowing to read at times, overall a great crime thriller with plenty of secrets to be unfolded, definitely one to watch out for! Will be recommending it to my friends who love reading this genre.

I would like to thank NetGalley for a free kindle edition and my review, have not put any spoilers as it would ruin it for other readers.
The story is in Greenland and Matthew Cave who is a Danish reporter is sent to Greenland to cover the story of a Viking Norseman that has been discovered in a crevasse and is likely to be approx 600yrs old. Archeologist awaiting to examine the find are disappointed to find it's approx only 40yrs old A police officer is left to guard the corpse overnight and the next day he's the body is found and flayed and gutted, so the pure white snow is now covered red and Matthew has his work cut out. trying to find why anyone would do such a thing. The story originally started approx 40yrs ago when 4 men were discovered in the same condition and Matthew tries to find out who what and why that started these diabolical murders and put himself in danger trying to make sense of it all. This is my first from the author and hopefully not my last I congratulate him on the setting quite captivating you can almost feel the Arctic cold, it's a good story very graphic in places and brilliant at the way it all comes together.

An intense thriller set in Greenland

When Matthew Cave, a journalist working for Sermitsiaq newspaper, is assigned to cover the story of a mummified body found on a glacier, he cannot know that this will be the beginning of a case which will send his life spiralling out of control.

Recently arrived in the town of Nuuk, Matthew is still mourning the deaths of his wife and daughter in a car accident. He is, therefore, more than willing to throw himself into work.

Soon he is embroiled in a crime spanning forty years; the gruesome murders of four men back in 1973 which may or may not have a link with a more recent killing. In the course of his investigations, he meets the enigmatic Tupaarnaq, a woman recently released from prison after serving twelve years for the murder of her family. Tupaamaq has her own agenda and Matthew is soon drawn into this as their paths overlap.

This stylish thriller alternates narrative between 1973 and 2014 and it is sometimes difficult to separate the two periods. However, what results is a gripping read with a wealth of complications and mis-directions as the investigation uncovers a history of child abuse which in Greenland seems to have been endemic between fathers and daughters.

As Matthew and Tupaamaq unravel the complicated threads it becomes clear that there is corruption at the highest levels and no one can be trusted.

If you like Scandi Noir you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Pashtpaws

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I wanted so much more from this.

The cover intrigued me and the synopsis intrigued me. It had everything I wanted and more.

But it became a formulaic, paint-by-numbers thriller, which felt more like it was written from a movie storyboard than written to be read.

The story is straightforward - Matthew now resides in Nuuk, Greenland, after a horrific experience changed his life. He accepts a journalist position and begins to create a little life for himself. Then a discovery - the suspected mummified body of a viking.

Things begin to unravel quickly when the photographers studio is ransacked and the guard assigned to ensure the body isn't moved is brutally murdered. Matthew learns that in 1973 similar murders had occurred as well and then story bounces back and forth.

The characters were decent, although I was thoroughly annoyed with the first interactions between Matthew and a specific female character, and I found that even though the book was translated to English, the prose had a nice flow to it, with limited odd phrases.

Overall, I think this book was written specifically with the hopes it would be adapted to film, and it lost some of its depth for me because of that.

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This book has been a really exciting and engrossing read! Set in in Greenland in the picturesque Nuuk this book by Mads Peder Nordbo offers so much more than just thrilling content.
The Girl without Skin is about how sometimes power, lies corruption and greed weave themselves into the very fabric of communities that standing upto the right thing becomes a matter of life and death.
All the characters in this book have such pivotal and succinct parts to play. Reading this book transported me to Nuuk , such is the descriptive power of this one. I really loved the chemistry between Danish journalist Matthew Cave and Tupaarnaq a young Inuit woman. I also loved the emotions, the action, the gore, the suspense and altogether the story was simply fantastic!
I look forward to reading more from Mads Peder Nordbo. Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an ARC.