Girl in Ice
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- $199.00
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
In this gripping Arctic thriller from the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle, a linguist travels to a remote Greenland research station to investigate her twin brother’s suspicious death—and a mysterious girl thawed alive from the ice—blending psychological suspense, survival adventure, and climate fiction.
Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is an expert in dead Nordic languages, more comfortable with ancient texts than the outside world. But when her twin brother, a climate scientist stationed on an isolated island off Greenland, is found dead after walking into subzero wilderness, Val refuses to believe it was suicide.
When a fellow researcher discovers a girl frozen in the ice—alive and speaking an unknown language—Val is called north to help interpret her words. Determined to uncover the truth, she embarks on a perilous journey into a stark and hostile landscape.
As Val confronts her fears and deciphers the girl’s cryptic language, she begins to suspect that the answers to both mysteries lie buried within the research itself. With the child’s life hanging in the balance and danger closing in, Val must uncover the truth before it disappears beneath the ice.
Atmospheric, suspenseful, and emotionally resonant, this literary thriller explores grief, isolation, science, and survival at the edge of the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Linguist Val Chesterfield, the narrator of this exemplary thriller from Ferencik (Into the Jungle), grapples with two mysteries—the apparent suicide of her twin brother, Andy, while on a research expedition in northern Greenland that included the discovery of an eight- or nine-year-old girl who was miraculously revived after being found frozen in a glacier. Despite her fears of travel, Val accepts an invitation from expedition leader Wyatt Speeks to travel to the Arctic to see whether she can decipher the child's language, unknown even to the region's indigenous people. Wyatt and his team are hoping the ice cores they're studying can offer answers that could avert a climate disaster at a time when sudden, freezing storms are occurring with increasing frequency worldwide. Val's moving struggles to communicate with the girl alternate with her investigation into Andy's death, which she suspects was a homicide. Trenchant details about catastrophic climate change bolster a creative plot featuring authentic characters, particularly the anxious, flawed Val. Ferencik outdoes Michael Crichton in the convincing way she mixes emotion and science.
