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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
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Edie Kiglatuk mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Investigating the murder of an adventurist under her watch, half-Inuit Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk teams up with police sergeant Derek Palliser when she realizes that the victim's tour group was searching for something specific.
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Edie Kiglatuk mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in nearby Lake Turngaluk, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit family that they will uncover the truth. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez investigates the toxicity of the lake and suspects that there might be a larger conspiracy involved. As the three clamber over rocky terrain...
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Page Murdock novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Port hazard: Someone is after Page Murdock. Hired killers, one by one, are sent to Montanta to end his life. Murdock knows where they are coming from and he travels to San Francisco's Barbary Coast and Chinatown to seek those responsible.
White desert: Page Murdock is a Western cop. He is a U.S. Marshall based in Montana, hot on the trail of a vicious gang heading into the far north of Canada in the dead of winter.
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Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success in both the hospital and at home. He and his wife have everything they want out of life, except the child she longs for, the child Dr. Woodruff secretly believes he may never be ready to parent. Suddenly, the delicate equilibrium of their relationship is blown apart by the arrival of shocking news. Deep in the desolate sub-Arctic wilderness of Canada where Woodruff lived and worked years...
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