What a read! The author writes about murder and research in the Antarctic environment from the study of ice cores to observation and studying penguins. The detail is entrancing and the murder difficult to solve. Valena Walker is a young masters degree graduate student who finds herself in this hostile environment where she is to pursue glacial studies with her professor. However, her professor has been detained and then arrested for the murder of a journalist who died on a trip at a research site supervised by the professor. Her lifelong goal has been to visit this remote continent with its potential for study and research but she is unsure whether or not she will be able to complete her work for her degree. Determined to clear her adviser, she interviews individual after individual about what happened. In this closed society everyone seems to know everyone's business. Eventually, of course, she alerts the murderer to her efforts and almost becomes a victim herself. Good, good read.
Kimberly N. (kimberlyrav) -
This book had everything in it that I look for in an excellent read. The perfect amount of mystery, setting-descriptions, character development, educational value and that feeling of "I just cant set this book down"...
This author researched Antarctica very well, the comings and goings and day in and out of McMurdo Station. She even went to the continent in order to make this read as accurate as possible in combination with her fictional mystery.
Ive always wished to go to the great white continent in the south and this book is as close as I can get. LOVED it!
This author researched Antarctica very well, the comings and goings and day in and out of McMurdo Station. She even went to the continent in order to make this read as accurate as possible in combination with her fictional mystery.
Ive always wished to go to the great white continent in the south and this book is as close as I can get. LOVED it!
