M. J. McGrath. (2011). White Heat: The First Edie Kiglatuk Mystery: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, Book 1. Penguin Publishing Group.

M. J. McGrath. 2011. White Heat: The First Edie Kiglatuk Mystery: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, Book 1. Penguin Publishing Group.

M. J. McGrath, White Heat: The First Edie Kiglatuk Mystery: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery Series, Book 1. Penguin Publishing Group, 2011.

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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 it’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.

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     June 13, 2011
     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 leading white (or qalunaat) tourists on hunting expeditions near her tiny outpost town of Autisaq on Canada's Ellesmere Island. When Felix Wagner is fatally shot during such a hunting trip, the local council of elders hurries to declare the death an accident, despite Edie's claim that she saw strange footprints near the body. After Felix's assistant, Andy Taylor, disappears during a subsequent trip while under the supervision of Edie's beloved ex-stepson, Joe Inukpuk, she suspects there's more going on than the routine perils of life in the Arctic. 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.

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     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 series of tragic events and another death. When the town’s elders attribute the deaths to unfortunate misadventure and suicide, Edie finds she can’t sit back and accept the decision and begins her own investigation to find the truth. Kate Reading, with her straightforward descriptions of the stark Arctic tundra and the cold, unforgiving weather, brings a strong sense of place to her narration. The characters she creates are fully realized, each with its own distinctive voice. Especially well rendered is the troubled Kiglatuk, who comes across—warts and all—as an earnest, courageous, and appealing heroine in this promising new series. A Viking hardcover.

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     In her first fiction work, McGrath brings qalunaat (white man) to the silver white cold of Canada's great empty north, there to contrast modern greed and ambition with the ancient wisdom of the Inuit. 
     
     The setting is Ellesmere Island, Unmingmak Nuna, a far-north outpost of Canadian sovereignty. Intuit peoples were lured there decades ago by Canadian politicians fearful of America's Greenland presence. The story follows Edie Kiglatuk, half-white but also a descendant of the great guide Welatok, who accompanied Sir James Fairfax on his arctic explorations. Edie is a guide for hunters and fishermen, a part-time schoolteacher and a fierce protector of her stepson, Joe, a settlement youngster with ambitions other than video games and alcohol. Early one spring, Edie and Joe guide two qalunaat across the ice of Jones Sound to Craig Island. There one qalunaat is shot dead. Edie and Joe believe it's murder or manslaughter, but the Council of Elders fears the loss of tourist trade. The council declares the shooting was a self-inflicted wound, a ricochet from an accidental shot. Edie, facing discrimination in a patriarchal society, goes along, but Joe is troubled. Enter Derek Palliser, a mixed-race Northern Communities police sergeant and an amateur naturalist who studies lemmings. The narrative broadens to include meteorites, iridium, missing pages from Fairfax's diaries, Texas and Russian energy companies, NASA researchers, corruption in Edie's village, drugs and more murders. McGrath has written a mystery, but one reminiscent of Tony Hillerman's culture-clash novels. The language is beautiful, especially the descriptions of the Inuit people, living in "a place littered with bones, with spirits, with reminders of the past...surrounded by our stories." Detailed in her knowledge of setting, McGrath vividly invokes the frozen land, and her portrayals of the rugged people who cherish its beauty and bounty, especially Edie and Derek, ring true. 
     
     A promising first installment in an upcoming series of arctic adventures.

      

     
     

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     Set on the islands of the High Arctic, McGrath's first novel features Edie Kiglatuk, a half-Inuit teacher and guide. She knows Craig Island like the back of her hand and is the first choice for qalunaat (southerners) who want to hunt or fish on the island. However, things go wrong for Edie when one of her charges is killed, supposedly by a ricochet from his own gun. This death is followed by another accident on Craig and the apparent suicide of Edie's stepson. Unable to accept these accidents, Edie decides to look into the deaths, and her investigations take her from Ellesmere Island to Greenland and Etah, the home of her ancestor, the famous guide Welatok. VERDICT Award-winning British journalist McGrath (The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic) shares a wealth of knowledge about life in the High Arctic that is central to her story. Well written and researched, her excellent adventure murder-mystery will hold readers' attention until the last page.--Lisa O'Hara, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     On remote and sparsely populated Ellesmere Island, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk, who has never lost a client, is the best guide in the Canadian High Arctic. Then one of two southerner white men, who hire Edie for a hunting expedition, is mysteriously shot and killed in an incident that local authorities cover up. When the victim's colleague returns for a trip led by Joe Inukpuk, Edie's beloved stepson, the man is lost in a blizzard, and Joe struggles home, incoherent and frostbitten, and soon commits suicide. Devastated by her loss, Ediea 33-year-old divorc'e, recovered alcoholic, and part-time teacher, who was financing Joe's nursing trainingfalls off the wagon temporarily before setting out to prove the connection between the recent events. With occasional help from police sergeant Derek Palliser, a man obsessed with lemmings and a failed love affair, she risks her life to find the truth. 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.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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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.

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