The Boy in the Snow

Edie Kiglatuks discovery along Alaskas Iditarod Trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy. M. J. McGraths debut novel,White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such asSmillas Sense of Snowand the Kurt Wallander series. InThe Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dogsled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believersa sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sectbut Edies instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past.