Bernadette Calonego`s new Canada Thriller.
Unexplained deaths, icy cold and mayhem in a small Arctic town.
How deep is she willing to go to find the secrets of her past?
Tour guide Valerie Blaine has always been haunted by the tragic death of her mother during an Arctic expedition thirty years before—unsolved, hushed up, and for Valerie, an unsettled part of a past she’s never been able to escape. Its grip on Valerie is tighter than ever, now that she’s been hired to lead a tourist group across the same desolate terrain where her mother died.
But when a woman’s frozen corpse is found outside a quiet Inuit village just as they’re about to depart, and a friend of Valerie’s mysteriously disappears, Valerie’s suspicions grow; her disquiet is only eased by Clem Hardeven. A man of adventure and roughneck charisma, he’s drawn to Valerie—but he knows nothing of the mysteries that consume her.
As their search takes them into the icy reaches of the Arctic north, Valerie starts to fear that it’s all tied to the darkness that befell her own family long ago—a dangerous puzzle whose pieces have remained elusive to her. Until now.
(Translated by Gerald Chapple, published in August 2018 by AmazonCrossing).
Click here to read an excerpt.
” Stranger on the Ice is a very complex thriller! It has twists and turns, suspicious characters, lovely folklore and a tense story. This is a terrific novel with well written characters and a wealth of detail for the locations, the people and the story itself.”
Paula Pugh`s Reviews on www.goodreads.com
Article in the “Coast Reporter”. Read here.
Quote: “ Calonego has a knack for engaging the reader with a series of believable characters who are not what they seem to be.”
Article in the Northern Pen. Read here.
Quote: “When asked where she got the inspiration for the story, Calonego said a few years ago she made a trip with a tour group and drove up the Dempster Highway to Inuvik and then travelled on the ice road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean. “
On the internet: The Book Trail about “The Stranger on the Ice”. Read here.
Quote: ” What a great book! The setting, mystery based on true facts and the brilliantly nuanced plot with overriding sense of foreboding throughout.”