2012 book 347

Melanie McGrath's White Heat
I have to say, the mystery in this book is overly convoluted--but everything else is completely fascinating. It's set in a small Inuit community in the far Canadian north, where the local schoolteacher--who also works as a hunting guide--gets caught up in a series of deaths. Like I said, the mystery is kind of all over the place, and the protagonist does some absolutely ridiculous things, but the setting and the characters are so strong that it almost doesn't matter. I really loved all the details of their lives. A-/B+.