I`m very excited that my new mystery novel "The Stranger on the Ice" will be published in August. This book is set in the Canadian Arctic.
The Arctic is a place of immense fascination for me. I traveled on the icebreaker of the Canadian Coast Guard through the legendary Northwest Passage. Unforgettable.
For this book, I drove from Whitehorse to Dawson City, a goldminers` town and historic location of a well documented goldrush. On the Dempster Highway, an isolated dirt road, I traveled to Inuvik, an Inuit community, famous for its Igloo church.
When I was up there, the ice road on the Mackenzie River delta still existed (today it has been replaced by an overland road). The ice road is also the location in my next book where a body is found, I drove on the ice road to Tuktoyaktuk, another Inuit community right on the Arctic Ocean,
All these places can be found in "The Stranger on the Ice". The Arctic is still little known and the people who live there are so resilient and interesting. So if you like to dive into the cold and into desolate areas where people survive against all odds, "The Stranger on the Ice" is the book for you!