How Åre became the perfect spine-tingling setting for this Nordic noir

Perhaps it’s the cold, perhaps it’s the dark, but there’s something that makes crime writing and Scandinavia eerily comfortable bedfellows. For bestselling Swedish novelist Viveca Sten – whose spine-tingling books have sold millions of copies all around the world, frequently topping best-sellers lists – it is, in part, her surroundings. Namely, the Stockholm archipelago in the summer and the ski town of Åre in the winter. Here, the latter serves as the backdrop for a thrillingly creepy short story, written exclusively for Vogue Scandinavia