M. J. McGrath

Nothing on the tundra rotted . . . The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists, experiencing Arctic life in the raw, but when one of the men is shot dead in mysterious circumstances, the local Council of Elders in the tiny settlement of Autisaq is keen to dismiss it as an accident. Then two adventurers arrive in Autisaq hoping to search for the remains of the legendary Victorian explorer Sir James Fairfax. The men hire Edie - whose ancestor Welatok guided Fairfax - along with Edie's stepson Joe, and two parties set off in different directions. Four days later, Joe returns to Autisaq frostbitten, hypothermic and disoriented, to report his man missing. And when things take an even darker turn, Edie finds herself heartbroken, and facing the greatest challenge of her life . . . 'A blazing star of a thriller: vivid, tightly-sprung, and satisfying on all levels. Encountering Edie Kiglatuk, the toughest, smartest Arctic heroine since Miss Smilla, left me with that rare feeling of privilege you get on meeting extraordinary people in real life. A huge achievement' Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture 'Edie is an ingenious and original creation but the most addictive character is the Arctic itself' Sunday Telegraph

White Heat

Visiting Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser to help her ex-husband Sammy compete in the famous Iditarod dog sled race, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk joins a local investigation into the exposure death of an infant and uncovers a sinister ring of corrupt politics, religious intolerance and sex trafficking. By the award-winning author of White Heat. 30,000 first printing.

The Boy in the Snow

A former polar bear hunter and Inuit guide in the Canadian arctic investigates after finding one of her summer school students dead near Lake Turngaluk, in the third novel of the mystery series following The Boy in the Snow.

The Bone Seeker

Edie Kiglatuk's Christmas

Boy in the Snow

In the second book of the Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, Edie’s discovery along Alaska’s Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy M. J. McGrath’s debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smilla’s Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series. In M. J. McGrath’s compelling follow-up to White Heat, Edie Kiglatuk, the half-Inuit and half-outsider heroine, prepares to help her ex-husband, Sammy, in his bid to win Alaska’s world-famous Iditarod. But the race turns grim when she stumbles upon body of an infant—its tiny corpse covered in mysterious ceremonial markings—on land belonging to the Old Believers, an exiled Russian Orthodox sect. Meanwhile, it’s election time and the lead candidate for governor of Alaska, Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg, desperately wants to keep Edie’s discovery out of the press. As Sammy mushes his team across frozen wilderness, Edie begins an investigation that leads into a murky world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself threatened by a painful secret from her past.

An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery

Non esiste al mondo luogo più affascinante dell'Artico: ultima frontiera selvaggia e regno estremo della natura e della bellezza. Né esiste al mondo luogo più duro: qui la luce ferisce gli occhi, il gelo spacca la pelle, l'isolamento e la solitudine svuotano l'anima e possono condurre alla pazzia. Gli inuit lo sanno da sempre, e da sempre si conquistano ogni giorno, con caparbietà e con fatica, il diritto a godere del loro impossibile paradiso tra i ghiacci. Ai bianchi che vengono da sud – i qalunaat – guardano con diffidenza, anche se spesso sono le uniche fonti di guadagno. Edie Kiglatuk, cacciatrice e maestra nell'unica scuola elementare, arrotonda il misero stipendio accompagnando i ricchi turisti che vogliono provare il brivido dell'avventura estrema, e con lei c'è Joe, il figliastro. E sono proprio i due a fare da guida a un gruppo di americani che vogliono ritrovare i resti di Sir James Fairfax. Ma dalla spedizione il giovane Joe torna sconvolto, e poco dopo si toglie la vita. A questo gesto disperato e inspiegabile va ad aggiungersi un'altra morte, forse troppo frettolosamente archiviata come incidente: quella di un turista giunto nella zona per una battuta di caccia e ucciso, così sostiene la polizia, da un colpo partito per sbaglio dalla sua stessa arma. In entrambi i casi Edie non crede alla versione ufficiale e comincia a indagare, fra i nativi e fra i qalunaat che orbitano attorno al villaggio e alla stazione scientifica dell'isola di Devon, dove sono in corso ricerche aerospaziali top secret. E se gli stranieri sembrano disposti a tutto pur di mettere le mani su un prezioso meteorite menzionato nel diario di Fairfax, nemmeno gli inuit sono immuni dall'avidità, né dai traffici illeciti di cui Edie, con il fiuto e la pazienza silenziosa della cacciatrice, lentamente scopre le tracce… Finalista del prestigioso premio Golden Dagger, in corso di pubblicazione in 12 Paesi, La figlia della neve è un thriller dalla forza e dalle atmosfere straordinarie, in cui al bianco abbacinante e al turchese irreale dei ghiacci artici si mescola il rosso brillante del sangue.

La figlia della neve

The third novel in the hugely compelling Edie Kiglatuk series, set in the Artic's long summer nights. Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year. A missing girl. A dark betrayal. Summer in the High Arctic. When young Inuit Martha Salliaq goes missing from her settlement, her teacher, ex Polar Bear Hunter Edie Kiglatuk enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for the girl. But once a body is discovered floating in a polluted lake on the site of a decommissioned Radar Station, Edie's worst fears are realised. As the investigation into Martha's murder begins, the Inuit community - and Martha's devastated family - are convinced the culprits lie within the encampment of soldiers stationed nearby. Before long Sergeant Palliser finds evidence linking two of the men with the dead girl. But Edie and local lawyer Sonia Gutierrez remain unconvinced. Why are the military quite so willing to cooperate with the investigation? What has Edie's boyfriend Chip Muloon, a simple academic researcher, got to hide? And why has the lake where Martha's body was found been suddenly cordoned off? A gripping, atmospheric thriller set in the Arctic's long white nights, in The Bone Seeker the very personal murder of a young girl will explode a decades-long tale of the very darkest betrayal.

La esperada continuación de El calor helado, un extraordinario thriller ambientado en el Ártico canadiense protagonizado por Edie Kiglatuk. Cuando Edie Kiglatuk, guía de caza en el Ártico, tropieza con el cadáver congelado de un niño en un bosque de Alaska, poco puede imaginar adónde la conducirá su descubrimiento. La policía local tiene la convicción de que esa muerte está relacionada con los Oscuros Creyentes, una siniestra secta rusa, y los amigos de Edie le recomiendan que deje la investigación en manos de las autoridades competentes. Pero durante su estancia en Alaska como integrante del equipo de su ex marido Sammy, que está disputando la famosa carrera de trineos Iditarod, Edie no consigue quitarse de la cabeza la imagen del niño congelado. Mientras Sammy recorre algunas de las regiones más difíciles y peligrosas del planeta, Edie emprende una investigación que la llevará al turbio mundo de la política, la corrupción y la codicia, y que hará emerger también un doloroso secreto de su propio pasado...

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