by M.J. McGrath
Series: Edie Kiglatuk Mysteries #1 I came across this in my most recent scouring of my library's currently available audiobook offerings although I admit I was mostly looking for audio versions of stuff I had been meaning to read and hadn't gotten around to. The author appears to have done her res...
bookshelves: radio-4x, published-2011, series, polar, fradio, canada, mystery-thriller, autumn-2012, debut Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from November 10 to 16, 2012 Next on BBC Radio 4 ExtraMonday 06:30 BBC Radio 4 ExtraA soupçon of Tenderness of Wolves flurried together with a smidgeo...
"White Heat" is the first in a mystery series set on Ellesmere Island which is next to Greenland though it's actually part of Canada. The protagonist is Edie Kiglatuk, an Inuit woman who makes her living as a hunting and fishing guide. Edie becomes caught up in a mystery when one of the two men she ...
Next on BBC Radio 4 ExtraMonday 06:30 BBC Radio 4 ExtraA soupçon of Tenderness of Wolves flurried together with a smidgeon of Smilla, and isn't that Kate Shugak's distinctive footprint in the snow.Winter Season 2012/20133* White HeatCR Winter of the World
In her debut fictional novel M.J. McGrath takes readers to the far Canadian north, where the nothing is able to rot, therefore, nothing is ever forgotten.Edie Kiglatuk is a half Inuit, half White hunter and guide on Ellesmere Island in the settlement of Autisaq. Although due to the fact that she is ...
The first of a series of mysteries based in the fictional Inuit town of Autisaq on Ellesmere Island. It starts off kind of slow, I think to take the time properly introduce the characters, environment, and culture. The narrative pace does eventually pick up and it turns into quite an intriguing my...
Today's Arctic Circle Canada and Greenland -- another world. It's a mystery, but also kind of a thriller. The author did a great job of engaging me on these various moments of danger that Edie/Kigga got herself into. I also really liked the moments of "tracking" -- really observing the environment a...
White Heat is beautifully written. The author did a wonderful job of describing the area in which the story took place. As I was reading, I really felt like I had been dropped in the Arctic region. Her descriptions of the landscape make me want to visit there myself someday. I also really liked ...
I seriously tried to read this book but I struggled through it and finally gave up on page 187. I know I was halfway through it but the book could not keep my attention. I am not a reader who gives up on a book very often, I never start a book I don't think I can't finish, so I was kinda upset with ...
I reviewed White Heat for Newfoundland's Independent, go check it out!http://theindependent.ca/2011/09/19/white-heat/