num_pages: 304
description: From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive.Valerie Val Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenlands barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolableand disbelieving. She suspects foul play. When Wyatt Andys fellow researcher in the Arctic discovers a scientific impossibilitya young girl frozen in the ice who thaws out alive speaking a language no one understandsVal is his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North and meet this girl try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to communicate? Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the girls speech Val musters every ounce of her courage and journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brothers death. The moment she steps off the plane her fear threatens to overwhelm her. The landscape is fierce and Wyatt brilliant but difficult is an enigma. But the girl is special and Vals connection with her is profound. Only something is terribly wrong; the child is sick maybe dying and the key to saving her lies in discovering the truth about Wyatts research. Can his data be trusted? And does it have anything to do with how and why Vals brother died? With time running out Val embarks on an incredible frozen odysseyled by the unlikeliest of guidesto rescue the new family she has found in the most unexpected of places.
language: English
title: Girl in Ice
publisher: Gallery/Scout Press