Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla Jaspersen - half Dane, half Greenlander - knows, from marks left on a snow covered rooftop that the small boy, Isaiah, a friend of hers, did not fall to his death accidentally. But the police, not having Smilla's expertise with snow, regard Isaiah's death as an accident. The hunt for the truth leads Smilla to the icy wastes of Greenland, and the Cryolyte Corporation's sixty-five-million year old secret. ...