A review by gabmc
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik

3.0

This was a very interesting concept for a book .... Val studies languages, from ancient to modern and everything in between. Her twin brother Andy was a client scientist, following in the footsteps of their favourite father. Andy is studying at a remote climate station in Greenland when Val and their father receive a message that he has died. Val struggles with anxiety and the idea of actually going to Greenland to find out what happened terrifies her. However, a few months later, Wyatt, who was Andy's boss, contacts Val to ask for help. They have discovered a girl frozen in the ice - who has somehow thawed out alive - but they have no idea what language she is speaking. They need Val's expertise to uncover the language and try to find out what she had done to freeze and then thaw alive. Val reluctantly agrees to go and as soon as she gets there, she falls for the girl - but she tries all kinds of nordic languages and can't figure out what the girl is speaking. Meanwhile she is very suspicious about Wyatt and his colleague Jean who have different stories about the night Andy died. The remote setting definitely helped build the tension in the story.