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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"“[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“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.” — Booklist (starred review)“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“A solid thriller…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.” — Publishers Weekly“This debut novel encompasses the hard, otherworldly beauty of the far north and the rapaciousness of energy moguls determined to exploit the area’s 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“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.” — Liz Jensen, bestselling author of The Rapture“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“With a poet’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 can’t do otherwise. In her risk-all pursuit of truth resides the best in all of us.” — Kirk Russell, author of Redback: A John Marquez Crime Novel"M.J. McGrath’s White Heat is a tour de force, a book with a stunning grip on all the elements that make a mystery story great. The characters are unique and profoundly human, the plot wonderfully labyrinthine, and the sense of place beautifully—chillingly—evoked. I challenge any reader to pick up this marvelous novel and not be completely mesmerized."—William Kent Kreuger, author of Vermilion Drift — Willian Kent Kreuger“Once in a blue moon a book comes along that exposes the world to us in a new light, makes us question everything: who we are, what we think we know, our beliefs and values, even the nature and purpose of our existence. White Heat is such a book. Seek it out and bask in it.”—James Thompson, author of Lucifer’s Tears — James Thompson“Once in a blue moon a book comes along that exposes the world to us in a new light, makes us question everything: who we are, what we think we know, our beliefs and values, even the nature and purpose of our existence. White Heat is such a book. Seek it out and bask in it.”—James Thompson, author of Lucifer’s Tears — Val McDermid
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About the Author
M. J. McGrath is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal. She was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best British writer under thirty-five, and currently lives in London.
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Product details
Series: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery (Book 1)
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (July 31, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143120964
ISBN-13: 978-0143120964
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
63 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#335,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I have no real experience of what it's like in the Arctic. Thus finding out about it from reading a well-written mystery novel was a pleasure. The factual details of what everyday life entails in the far North for the people who live there are fascinating to me. While Edie Kiglatuk was solving the mystery, I read about her diet including blubber, seal blood and other local foods extremely strange to me. I read of her continuous need to protect herself from the elements by layering furs and other sorts of clothing that she had obtained and made from hunting. This life is not simple or easy; survival is sometimes a moment-by-moment achievement. All in all, I appreciated the way the author made the characters real and down-to-earth and eminently believable, the way the environment itself was depicted that made it, in all its characteristics both subtle and dramatic, a character in the story. I was not only entertained but informed by this book.
Haven’t enjoyed a book this much in a long time. Very well written, great detective story, subplots everywhere, bad guys under every rock, and a lot of really interesting information about the Inuit and their culture. Looking forward to reading the others.
This is the story of Edie Kiglatuk, a native of far off, underpopulated Ellesmere Island, a large island with few inhabitants, mostly Inuits. Edie is half Inuit, half qalunaat (white), but feels herself wholly Inuit. She is a hunting guide, teacher and has never been away from Nunavut. However, looking for leads she flies to Greenland and is surprised at the size of Nuuk. She is befriended by a young woman, another Inuit, who shows her the ropes about getting around the large city of Nuuk. Edie has never been to such a large town.The book begins when Edie is guiding two white men on a hunting trip. One of the men is killed, a shooting accident? Edie thinks not. But she is not believed. She is only a woman. Edie has been married, divorced, no kids. Her stepson, Joe, is the love of her life. He is planning to become a nurse. Edie is proud of him wanting to help his people. Then Joe commits suicide. He had no reason to. He was not depressed, he was ambitious. He was like a son to Edie, the son she never had. She is thirty-three and trying to get away from alcohol abuse. And she is winning the fight. But all this might set her back. Joe's alcoholic mother blames Edie for all this. She stole her husband, her son. Edie is bent on knowing the truth of all this. Does desolate Craig Island have hidden treasures beneath its ice and snow?Another character is Derek Palliser. Derek is part Inuit, part qalunaat, and part Cree (an enemy of Inuits). He feels as though he is put together with left over and unneeded parts. Derek is a police sergeant in another tiny Inuit town, a distance from Akisaq. He has problems with some of the Inuits who are at war with different family members. He is in love with a Russian lady, an artist, who is just using him. Derek is studying lemmings, he would have liked to be a biologist, but he couldn't afford a college education.Edie is a gutsy lady who tackles life unafraid. She wonders about what happened, these characters to die for an unknown reason. And she is determined to find out the truth.The writer's words pictures Ellesmere Island and the surrounding islands very realisticly, very poetically and brings readers into this fierce, harsh, snow and ice covered country. The far north is bleak, the air is cold and clear, this land has its own beauty.The reader is introduced to Edie's Aunt Mattie, a great airplane pilot, when she is not drunk, ex-husband, Sammy, who comes to visit Edie on a regular basis, his dominent older brother, the town mayor, Old Koperkuj, who wants nothing to do with the white world.Edie thinks about these characters having weaknesses, drugs, alcohol for example. But she pauses to think that she is not free from weakness, so who is she to judge.This book is filled with adventure and is set in a part of the world I am interested in but am unable to visit. Edie is full of courage, takes no foolishness from others, is determined to live life on her own terms, an admirable character. So get in touch with the Inuit world. Read the book.
I love reading about ordinary people in different cultures. I was pleased to get a glimpse of how Inuit live and how they see themselves and people from ‘the south,’ meaning anyone south of the Arctic. It was for me a problem keeping some unfamiliar names of people and places straight, but I could have written them down. This book was interesting enough for me to want to read another by the same author, M. J. McGrath.
There was much to enjoy about this book: a fascinating setting so unfamiliar to me; a protagonist who is torn between strong ties to her culture and a burning need to take actions that could threaten her acceptance in her community and who must fight her own personal demons; and murder!Weaving Inuit diet, clothing, domiciles, transportation, and community life into the story made the fabric of the book strong and vibrant. Often I was compelled to read on simply to learn more.Many other reviewers have given fine plot summaries, so another is not necessary. However, too often the plot was obfuscated by lengthy action scenes that I slogged through, sensing they were blow by blow directions for the eventual filming of this story. Tightening up some scenes might have made the story more powerful and allowed more focus on the main characters. Somehow it felt as though they lacked sufficient depth, although the potential surely existed.Clearly the book read like the beginning of a series. Would I read the next in the series? Oh yes!... in the hopes that the richness of the characters, culture, and setting continued to be mined, but it would have to be more tighty written for me to try any more beyond that.
Since we have a summer house in Canada, I've been searching high and low for great reads set in Canada. This is one of my favorites. WHITE HEAT, set on Canada's Ellesmere Island in the Arctic circle, is the first novel in a series featuring hunter, tourist guide, and sometimes-detective Edie Kiglatuk, a half-Inuit woman. In this novel, she's drawn into solving a mystery revolving around the death of her stepson and two tourists. The book is rich with geological and cultural details that are as gripping as the mystery itself, such as when our heroine downs a bowl of seal blood or stands still as lemmings race over her feet.
This story is gripping for many reasons. The characters are convincing and empathetic. The plot is suspenseful and involving. The land and the culture are essential characters and an important part of the work`s irresistible draw.
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