Smilla's Sense of Snow

by Peter Høeg. Denmark,
translated by Tiina Nunnally.
It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm the police pronounce it an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the rooftop on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbor and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation, and violence that will take her back to a world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the  ice...
A best-selling suspenseful novel.
Paperback, 470pp. 1992/Eng1993