Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. The new novel from the author of "A Man Called Ove".