Erica Ferencik's Girl In Ice (#1,118) is a gritty thriller set in an unusual place: Arctic Greenland. Valerie Chesterfield is an expert in linguistics, specializing in dead Nordic languages. Which makes her the perfect candidate to visit a remote Artic research station where the scientists have thawed out alive a girl they found frozen into a glacier. She's speaking a language no one else can understand. Can Val help?
There are several problems with the idea. Her twin brother Andy supposedly committed suicide at this outpost, wandering outside in the freezing weather wearing only his underwear. Can Val bear to be in the same spot where her brother died under tragic circumstances? Their father doesn't believe Andy committed suicide, and deep down, neither does Val. It's a career-capping opportunity, but Val can barely make it from her apartment to the university where she works. Is she physically and mentally up to the challenges?
Wyatt, the scientist in charge, is a menacing presence, demanding instant results from her work with the girl. Val knows Wyatt from before, and doesn't trust his motives or his promises. What is really going on at this research station? Cut off from the outside world, Val struggles to communicate with the girl to find out what really happened to her. Where are her parents? Could she possibly have survived in the ice for hundreds of years, and if so, how?
It's not always an easy read, but along with Val, the reader wants to find out where the girl came from. But will anyone leave the research station alive? Maybe not.
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