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Penguin
August 2011
On Sale: August 4, 2011
Featuring: Edie Kiglatuk; Derek Palliser
175 pages
ISBN: 0670022489
EAN: 9780670022489
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A riveting Arctic mystery that marks the fiction debut of a
"wickedly talented*" writer. (*New York Times) Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best
guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets
only grudging respect from the elders who ruled her isolated
community on Ellesmere Island. When a man is shot and killed
while out on an "authentic" Arctic adventure under her
watch, the murder attracts the attention of police sergeant
Derek Palliser. As Edie sets out to discover what those
tourists were really after, she is shocked by the suicide of
someone very close to her. Though these events are seemingly
unrelated, Edie's Inuit hunter sensibility tells her
otherwise. With or without Derek's help, she is determined to find the
key to this connection-a search that takes her beyond her
small village, and into the far reaches of the tundra. White
Heat is a stunning debut novel set in an utterly foreign
culture amid an unforgiving landscape of ice and rock, of
spirit ancestors and never-rotting bones. A suspense-filled adventure story that will captivate fans
of Henning Mankell's bestselling mysteries, this book marks
the start of an exciting new series.
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Re: White Heat
This gritty, suspensful debut novel, set in the frozen Arctic, is brilliantly written and keeps the reader on the chilly edges of their seats to the very end.
(Sharon Galligar Chance 12:52pm December 23, 2011)
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