Fear Of Broken Glass

For release in 2015

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‘In the Völuspá there is the tale of Baldr’s dream; Odin wants to know more about Baldr’s nightmares and rides to the edge of Hel. Here is where they sent the chosen to Hel. That was what sent him over the edge …‘

The end. Or is it the beginning? The ancient realm of Gothia. Sweden, the autumn of 1987:

A notorious wilderness with a macabre past.

A body discovered without any eyes, nails hammered through the feet.

A female hitch hiker found in the middle of the road in the rain.

A homestead harbouring a group of foreigners far from home.

A reconstructed Viking church by the shore of a lake named after the infamous daughter of a Viking-age legend.

And a painting, a lost masterpiece framed in runic inscriptions without an owner.

Fear Of Broken Glass is a crime-mystery thriller about isolation, deception, survival and the discovery of a mysterious hidden past, set amidst the power and beauty of the Swedish hinterland in the fall at a time close to the end of the Cold War.

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Synopsis

Ash and Justin have a secret, visiting a remote Viking church near a lake with a secret of it’s own. On the way back to their homestead Ash and Justin meet Ulrika standing on her own in the middle of the road in the rain.

Hasse Almquist is a detective with a tarnished reputation brought to an ancient site of pagan worship, Troll Church Hill in the Tiveden National Park in Sweden. The place where Danish art gallery owner Thomas Denisen has been discovered dead, eyes crudely removed and nails hammered up through his feet.

Almquist is called upon to solve the crime linking the victim with a similar pattern of four unsolved murders from the 1970’s, murders with a link to pagan practices in the past. He discovers the victim’s interest in a miniature painting by an unknown artist, his enquiries taking him to nearby Gotfrid’s Homestead, temporary home to Ash and Justin and the remaining members of the group the deceased victim had been a part of together with the alluring Swedish hitchhiker Ulrika.

Their investigation reveals the deeds of the mysterious reconstructed Viking Church on the shore of a lake and the reasons behind the deaths of local residents Anna and Gustav Kron over a decade previous. Only Almquist and Vikland realise too late they have opened Pandora’s box as investigator and suspects alike become a part of each other’s fate, becoming unwilling participants in a greater and much darker universe than the one they thought they inhabited.