Synopses & Reviews
In the second book of the Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, Edies discovery along Alaskas Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy
M. J. McGraths debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smillas Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series.
In M. J. McGraths 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 Alaskas world-famous Iditarod. But the race turns grim when she stumbles upon body of an infantits tiny corpse covered in mysterious ceremonial markingson land belonging to the Old Believers, an exiled Russian Orthodox sect.
Meanwhile, its election time and the lead candidate for governor of Alaska, Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg, desperately wants to keep Edies 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.
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“M.J. McGrath opens a window onto a fascinating and disappearing culture in this haunting mystery.” Parade Magazine "12 Great Summer Books"
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andldquo;[McGrath] weaves a strong strand of whodunit into a broader story about life in a 21st-century community on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The plot is wholly satisfying, and McGrath's portrait of a culture that uneasily blends yesterday and today is engrossing on its ownand#160;merits. The Arctic is a big place andmdash; big enough, one hopes, for Edie Kiglatuk to find another mystery that needs solving between warm bowls of seal blood soup fresh from theand#160;microwave.andrdquo;
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andldquo;In a gripping debut novel, McGrath (who has written nonfiction as Melanie McGrath) transports the reader to a land of almost incomprehensible cold and an unfamiliar but fascinating culture, taking on issues of climate change, energy exploration, local politics, and drug and alcohol abuse. Edie, a fiercely independent woman in a male-dominated milieu, is sure to win fans. Expect great things from this series.andrdquo;
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“An arctic setting so real it’ll give you frostbite.” Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder and Though Not Dead: A Shugak Nov
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andldquo;A solid thrillerandhellip;A picture soon emerges that includes a fight for precious natural resources and secrets that stretch back generations. McGrath captures the frigid landscape beautifully, and her heroine personifies the tension between the Inuit and qalunaat ways of life.andrdquo;
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andldquo;This debut novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the areaandrsquo;s natural resourcesandhellip;[McGrath] skillfully describes the destabilizing effects of global warming, on both the landscape and the lives of the people settled there.andrdquo;
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andldquo;White Heat is 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.andrdquo;
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“M. J. McGrath’s White Heat pulls you along like a steel cable, inexorably welding you to the characters and a place that you’ll never forget.” Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty
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andldquo;With a poetandrsquo;s confidence McGrath makes an unforgiving Arctic landscape, and then gives us a smart and strong yet vulnerable survivor in Edie Kiglatuk. You root for Edie. You canandrsquo;t do otherwise. In her risk-all pursuit of truth resides the best in all of us.andrdquo;
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andldquo;M.J. McGrath opens a window onto a fascinating and disappearing culture in this haunting mystery.andrdquo;
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andldquo;An arctic setting so real itandrsquo;ll give you frostbite.andrdquo;
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andldquo;M. J. McGrathandrsquo;s White Heat pulls you along like a steel cable, inexorably welding you to the characters and a place that youandrsquo;ll never forget.andrdquo;
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“McGrath has a firm grasp on a little known culture, its values and language…This affecting novel should melt even the most frozen human hearts.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Praise for
The Boy in the Snow
“An Arctic setting so real itll give you frostbite.”—Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling author of The Singing of the Dead
“McGrath has a firm grasp on a little known culture, its values and language…This affecting novel should melt even the most frozen human hearts.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Edie is fierce in her desire for justice…[She] finds herself at mortal risk from the cold, so masterfully described that it chills the reader.”—Booklist
“In M.J. McGraths gripping Alaskan mystery…[her] characters are both motivated and ruthless.—Oprah.com
“The plot compelling and the settings mesmerizing. McGrath…is a fresh and compelling voice.”—Cleveland.com
“The stoic Edie is a strong, determined heroine.”—Houston Chronicle
“Tautly plotted, truly satisfying suspense.”—BookPage
“M.J. McGrath [has] a terrific gift for the atmospheric portrayal of cold, ice and snow - and of the people who live in those climes.”—The Times (UK)
“[McGrath] is an author with a quietly impressive command of character…Yet the authors real skill is in the astonishing evocation of the frigid landscape…Whats more, McGrath is able to keep all these elements satisfyingly balanced.”—Express.co.uk
“One of our most gifted younger writers…The snow-laden wastes of Alaska are so brilliantly evoked that hit almost makes you shiver reading it, and the plot is every bit as chilling, laced as it is with politics, sects and modern greed.”—Daily Mail (UK)
Select Praise for White Heat
“M.J. McGrath opens a window onto a fascinating and disappearing culture in this haunting mystery.”—Parade Magazine “12 Great Summer Books”
“[McGrath] weaves a strong strand of whodunit into a broader story about life in a 21st-century community on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The plot is wholly satisfying, and McGrath's portrait of a culture that uneasily blends yesterday and today is engrossing on its own merits. The Arctic is a big place — big enough, one hopes, for Edie Kiglatuk to find another mystery that needs solving between warm bowls of seal blood soup fresh from the microwave.”—Associated Press
“A gripping debut novel, McGrath transports the reader to a land of almost incomprehensible cold and an unfamiliar but fascinating culture, taking on issues of climate change, energy exploration, local politics, and drug and alcohol abuse. Edie, a fiercely independent woman in a male-dominated milieu, is sure to win fans. Expect great things from this series.”—Booklist (starred)
“An arctic setting so real itll give you frostbite.”—Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder and Though Not Dead: A Shugak Novel
“M. J. McGraths White Heat pulls you along like a steel cable, inexorably welding you to the characters and a place that youll never forget.”—Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies
“This debut novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the areas natural resources…[McGrath] skillfully describes the destabilizing effects of global warming, on both the landscape and the lives of the people settled there.”—The New Yorker
Review
Praise for
The Boy in the Snow
“An Arctic setting so real itll give you frostbite.”—Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling author of The Singing of the Dead
“McGrath has a firm grasp on a little known culture, its values and language…This affecting novel should melt even the most frozen human hearts.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Edie is fierce in her desire for justice…[She] finds herself at mortal risk from the cold, so masterfully described that it chills the reader.”—Booklist
“In M.J. McGraths gripping Alaskan mystery…[her] characters are both motivated and ruthless.—Oprah.com
“The plot compelling and the settings mesmerizing. McGrath…is a fresh and compelling voice.”—Cleveland.com
“The stoic Edie is a strong, determined heroine.”—Houston Chronicle
“Tautly plotted, truly satisfying suspense.”—BookPage
“M.J. McGrath [has] a terrific gift for the atmospheric portrayal of cold, ice and snow - and of the people who live in those climes.”—The Times (UK)
“[McGrath] is an author with a quietly impressive command of character…Yet the authors real skill is in the astonishing evocation of the frigid landscape…Whats more, McGrath is able to keep all these elements satisfyingly balanced.”—Express.co.uk
“One of our most gifted younger writers…The snow-laden wastes of Alaska are so brilliantly evoked that hit almost makes you shiver reading it, and the plot is every bit as chilling, laced as it is with politics, sects and modern greed.”—Daily Mail (UK)
Select Praise for White Heat
“M.J. McGrath opens a window onto a fascinating and disappearing culture in this haunting mystery.”—Parade Magazine “12 Great Summer Books”
“[McGrath] weaves a strong strand of whodunit into a broader story about life in a 21st-century community on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The plot is wholly satisfying, and McGrath's portrait of a culture that uneasily blends yesterday and today is engrossing on its own merits. The Arctic is a big place — big enough, one hopes, for Edie Kiglatuk to find another mystery that needs solving between warm bowls of seal blood soup fresh from the microwave.”—Associated Press
“A gripping debut novel, McGrath transports the reader to a land of almost incomprehensible cold and an unfamiliar but fascinating culture, taking on issues of climate change, energy exploration, local politics, and drug and alcohol abuse. Edie, a fiercely independent woman in a male-dominated milieu, is sure to win fans. Expect great things from this series.”—Booklist (starred)
“An arctic setting so real itll give you frostbite.”—Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder and Though Not Dead: A Shugak Novel
“M. J. McGraths White Heat pulls you along like a steel cable, inexorably welding you to the characters and a place that youll never forget.”—Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies
“This debut novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the areas natural resources…[McGrath] skillfully describes the destabilizing effects of global warming, on both the landscape and the lives of the people settled there.”—The New Yorker
Review
Praise for
The Boy in the Snow
“An Arctic setting so real itll give you frostbite.”—Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling author of The Singing of the Dead
“McGrath has a firm grasp on a little known culture, its values and language…This affecting novel should melt even the most frozen human hearts.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Edie is fierce in her desire for justice…[She] finds herself at mortal risk from the cold, so masterfully described that it chills the reader.”—Booklist
“In M.J. McGraths gripping Alaskan mystery…[her] characters are both motivated and ruthless.—Oprah.com
“The plot compelling and the settings mesmerizing. McGrath…is a fresh and compelling voice.”—Cleveland.com
“The stoic Edie is a strong, determined heroine.”—Houston Chronicle
“Tautly plotted, truly satisfying suspense.”—BookPage
“M.J. McGrath [has] a terrific gift for the atmospheric portrayal of cold, ice and snow - and of the people who live in those climes.”—The Times (UK)
“[McGrath] is an author with a quietly impressive command of character…Yet the authors real skill is in the astonishing evocation of the frigid landscape…Whats more, McGrath is able to keep all these elements satisfyingly balanced.”—Express.co.uk
“One of our most gifted younger writers…The snow-laden wastes of Alaska are so brilliantly evoked that hit almost makes you shiver reading it, and the plot is every bit as chilling, laced as it is with politics, sects and modern greed.”—Daily Mail (UK)
Select Praise for White Heat
“M.J. McGrath opens a window onto a fascinating and disappearing culture in this haunting mystery.”—Parade Magazine “12 Great Summer Books”
“[McGrath] weaves a strong strand of whodunit into a broader story about life in a 21st-century community on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The plot is wholly satisfying, and McGrath's portrait of a culture that uneasily blends yesterday and today is engrossing on its own merits. The Arctic is a big place — big enough, one hopes, for Edie Kiglatuk to find another mystery that needs solving between warm bowls of seal blood soup fresh from the microwave.”—Associated Press
“A gripping debut novel, McGrath transports the reader to a land of almost incomprehensible cold and an unfamiliar but fascinating culture, taking on issues of climate change, energy exploration, local politics, and drug and alcohol abuse. Edie, a fiercely independent woman in a male-dominated milieu, is sure to win fans. Expect great things from this series.”—Booklist (starred)
“An arctic setting so real itll give you frostbite.”—Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder and Though Not Dead: A Shugak Novel
“M. J. McGraths White Heat pulls you along like a steel cable, inexorably welding you to the characters and a place that youll never forget.”—Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies
“This debut novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the areas natural resources…[McGrath] skillfully describes the destabilizing effects of global warming, on both the landscape and the lives of the people settled there.”—The New Yorker
Synopsis
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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Edie Kiglatuk’s discovery along Alaska’s Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracyM. 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 The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers—a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect—but Edie’s instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past.
Synopsis
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, White Heat is the first book in the gripping Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, with "an Arctic setting so real itand#8217;ll give you frostbite" (Dana Stabenow, author of A Cold Day for Murder)
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 her community's Council of Elders. While Edie is leading two tourists on a hunting expedition, one of them is shot and killed. The Council wants to call it an accident, but Edie and police sergeant Derek Palliser suspect otherwise. When the other tourist disappears, Edie sets off into the far reaches of the tundra for answers.
A stunning debut novel, White Heat launches a formidable new series set amidst an unforgiving landscape of ice and rock, of spirit ancestors, and never-rotting bones.
Synopsis
Edie Kiglatuk’s discovery along Alaska’s Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracyM. 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 The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers—a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect—but Edie’s instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past.
Synopsis
Edie Kiglatuks discovery along Alaskas Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy
M. J. McGraths debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smillas Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series.
In M. J. McGraths 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 Alaskas world-famous Iditarod. But the race turns grim when she stumbles upon body of an infantits tiny corpse covered in mysterious ceremonial markingson land belonging to the Old Believers, an exiled Russian Orthodox sect.
Meanwhile, its election time and the lead candidate for governor of Alaska, Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg, desperately wants to keep Edies 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.
Synopsis
Edie Kiglatuks discovery along Alaskas Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy
M. J. McGraths debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smillas Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series.
In M. J. McGraths 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 Alaskas world-famous Iditarod. But the race turns grim when she stumbles upon body of an infantits tiny corpse covered in mysterious ceremonial markingson land belonging to the Old Believers, an exiled Russian Orthodox sect.
Meanwhile, its election time and the lead candidate for governor of Alaska, Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg, desperately wants to keep Edies 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.
Synopsis
Edie Kiglatuks discovery along Alaskas Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy
M. J. McGraths debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smillas Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series.
In M. J. McGraths 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 Alaskas world-famous Iditarod. But the race turns grim when she stumbles upon body of an infantits tiny corpse covered in mysterious ceremonial markingson land belonging to the Old Believers, an exiled Russian Orthodox sect.
Meanwhile, its election time and the lead candidate for governor of Alaska, Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg, desperately wants to keep Edies 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.
Synopsis
The intrepid Edie Kiglatuk discovers one of her female students dead in a toxic lake in her third arctic mystery
In the third novel in this highly praised mystery series that will appeal to fans of The Killing, Top of the Lake, and The Bridge, Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in nearby Lake Turngaluk, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girls Inuit family that they will uncover the truth. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez investigates the toxicity of the lake and suspects that there might be a larger conspiracy involved. As the three clamber over rocky terrain under twenty-four-hour daylight they start to unearth secrets long frozen overrisking their own lives in the process. With stunning prose, M. J. McGrath delivers another thrill ride through a hauntingly beautiful landscape.
About the Author
M. J. McGrath is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and the novels White Heat and The Boy in the Snow, both part of the Edie Kiglatuk Mystery series. She was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best Commonwealth writer under thirty-five and currently lives in London.
McGrath's story Edie Kiglatuk's Christmas will be available as a Penguin E-Special in October 2013.