Seven Shoes

SEVEN SHOES

On a summer's morning, seven healthy and successful people hike in darkness to the summit of Norway's Pulpit Rock, a cliff outthrust 2,000 feet above the scenic Lysefjord. As the rising sun inflames cliffs on the opposite side of the fjord, they join hands, walk to the edge and leap together into the void.

Dr. Elizabeth Barrett Browne, world-renowned expert in suicide, follows the digital breadcrumbs to the mastermind behind these deaths -- the goddess Freyja, a wickedly clever wo...