M.J. McGrath. Viking, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-02248-9
British journalist McGrath (The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal) makes her fiction debut with a solid thriller, the first in a series featuring Edie Kiglatuk, a half Inuit/half white, Arctic guide. A recovering alcoholic, Edie makes her living...
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M.J. McGrath, read by Kate Reading. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-4551-1027-8
Half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk lives on the stark Arctic island of Ellesmere where she makes her living as a guide, something that, as a woman, is grudgingly tolerated by the council of elders. When a tourist in her care is killed, it sets in motion a...
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M.J. McGrath. Viking, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-02369-1
The two-week 1,150-mile Iditarod dog sled race from near Wasilla to Nome, Alaska, forms the backdrop for McGrath’s outstanding second mystery featuring half-Caucasian, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk (after 2011’s White Heat). A native of Ellesmere Island,
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M.J. McGrath. Viking, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-78580-3
A summer teaching job takes Edie Kiglatuk to Kuujuaq, a Canadian Arctic village, in McGrath’s unsettling third mystery featuring the Arctic guide (after 2012’s The Boy in the Snow). When Edie and Sgt. Derek Palliser, her policeman friend...
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M.J. McGrath, read by Kate Reading. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.25 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4708-1523-3
In this sequel to 2011’s White Heat, McGrath’s half-Inuit guide Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Nome, Alaska, helping her ex-husband in the Iditarod dog-sled race. But Edie soon stumbles upon the frozen body of an infant boy lying on the saddle of a...
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