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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Such a smart series, sometimes depressingly believable, with a very compelling heroine. ( ) 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 a dónde le 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. This is one of those books that start weirdly, and ends weirdly, but the middle part is really really good. We have Edie Kiglatuk - an Inuit from Canada who is support for her ex-husband racing the Iditarod. The beginning is odd for two reasons - 1) I don't know why Edie was where she was when she found the baby's body - something about scouting, but as far as I can tell - the race didn't go through those parts. The second reason is, who comes running and screaming at a press conference about a body found - Just because Edie is from a very small village in the Arctic Circle, it doesn't mean she knows how the world works. The middle section was well done - Edie's reasoning for investigating the death goes with her tenacious personality and want of Justice. The twists and turns were a bit unexpected, and it kept me guessing. But the end of the story, after the mystery was solved, was tacked on and unnecessary. Also, everyone survived, including the dogs, which seemed a bit ... out of character for the story. The setting of the story was well done - showing the difference between living in the far arctic vs Alaska - the cold, the dangers of living in a place where you will die in a very short time if you don't wear the proper clothes. This is really a 3.25 book, but since it kept me reading, I've rounded the rating up to a 3.5. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: Edie Kiglatuk'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 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 dogsled 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 Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt.
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