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Pamela Dorman Books
February 2014
On Sale: January 23, 2014
Featuring: Pirio Kasparov
400 pages
ISBN: 0670015652
EAN: 9780670015658
Kindle: 0670015652
Hardcover / e-Book
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Dennis Lehane meets Smilla’s Sense of Snow: a big discovery
in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman
with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo’s debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a
Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a
moral compass that points due north. When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter,
she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow,
she survives nearly four hours in the water before being
rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat’s owner and her
professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky. Compelled to look after Noah, the son of the late Ned and
her alcoholic prep school friend, Thomasina, Pirio can’t
shake the lurking suspicion that the boat’s sinking—and
Ned’s death—was no accident. It’s a suspicion seconded by
her deeply cynical, autocratic Russian father, who tells her
that nothing is ever what it seems. Then the navy reaches
out to her to participate in research on human survival in
dangerously cold temperatures. With the help of a curious journalist named Russell Parnell,
Pirio begins unraveling a lethal plot involving the glacial
whaling grounds off Baffin Island. In a narrow inlet in the
arctic tundra, Pirio confronts her ultimate challenge: to
trust herself. A gripping literary thriller, North of Boston combines the
atmospheric chills of Jussi Adler-Olsen with the gritty
mystery of Laura Lippman. And Pirio Kasparov is a gutsy,
compellingly damaged heroine with many adventures ahead.
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