Girl in ice
(Book)

"From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller as a linguist, broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive."--,Provided by publisher.

Valerie Chesterfield is a linguist trained in dead Nordic languages. She leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland's barren coast. When he willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather, Val is inconsolable-- and suspects foul play. Then Wyatt, a fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a scientific impossibility: a young girl frozen in the ice who thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understands. Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the girl's speech, Val journeys to the Arctic to solve the mystery of her brother's death. - Adapted from jacket.