The action takes place in a small town in the very north of Sweden. Five young girls meet at a reading club, discussing their favorite books. However, tension grows, because all the girls are in love with one guy named Viking. After another conflict, one of them disappears without a trace. Forty years later, she is found murdered, and the four women come together again. Arctic Circle (2021) is a new novel by the famous Swedish writer Lisa Marklund, written in the psychological detective genre. Lisa Marklund (b. 1962) became famous for a series of detective stories about journalist Annika Bengtzon . They were translated into thirty languages and sold millions of copies. The novels “Nobel’s Last Will”, “A Place in the Sun”, “Red Wolf”, “Prime Time” and others were published in Russian. In 2010, Lisa Marklund, together with American writer James Patterson, wrote the novel The Postcard Killers, which topped the New York Times bestseller list. In 2020, during the pandemic, Marklund began writing a trilogy, the first book of which, “The Arctic Circle,” is now in your hands. It is being published in Russian for the first time.