Dutch grave

The action of this psychological thriller unfolds, as, indeed, the action of other books of the Norwegian writer Monica Kristensen, who published in the series "Arctic Crime Romance", on Svalbbergen. The author knows Spitsbergen firsthand: she first arrived at the archipelago in 1976, repeatedly stayed here for wintering and for some time served as director of the Kings Bay scientific station. Therefore, she manages to so convincingly depict one of the most secluded and calm places on the planet, where nothing but weather conditions, it would seem, can disrupt the measured life of people. However, here a mysterious, cruel, unpredictable murder can occur here. And everything begins with the first landing on the shore of tourists who went on a cruise on the ship "White Bear" and visited the bird cape, where Dutch and English whalers lived more than 200 years ago. The only thing that remains of them was a cemetery with several rows of wooden coffins, which were once buried in permafrost, and now you can already see their covers. Raising one of them, tourists find a human head in a coffin. And she clearly belonged not to Dutch whale.
Monica Kristensen is a popular Norwegian writer, a glaciologist, a meteorologist and a polar researcher. The author of numerous popular science and art books on northern expeditions and polar researchers. Her criminal detectives were translated into eleven foreign languages ​​and became real bestsellers in Europe. In Russia, the author’s name is practically unknown. She was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society