'Wrap up warmly . . . McGrath's earlier Arctic-set novels were non-pareil in their freshness, and The Bone Seeker is her best yet' Financial Times

Summer in the High Arctic. When young Inuit Martha Salliaq goes missing from her settlement, her teacher, ex-polar bear hunter Edie Kiglatuk, enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for the girl. But once a body is discovered floating in a polluted lake on the site of a decommissioned radar station, Edie's worst fears are realized . . .

A gripping, atmospheric thriller set in the Arctic's long white nights, in The Bone Seeker the very personal murder of a young girl will explode a decades-long tale of the very darkest betrayal.

Praise for M. J. McGrath's Arctic series

'Kiglatuk is beguilingly different and the setting awesome' The Best Crime and Thriller Books of the Year, The Times

'The snow-laden wastes . . . are so brilliantly evoked that it almost make you shiver reading it, and the plot is every bit as chilling' Daily Mail

'Edie is an ingenious and original creation . . . but the most addictive character is the Arctic itself' Sunday Telegraph