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A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

20 February, 2026

Drawing on 17 years in the Arctic working as a criminal lawyer, Canadian author Malcolm Kempt has set his debut novel in the region. A Gift Before Dying follows Sergeant Elderick Cole, a disgraced cop exiled to the rugged landscape of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. This…

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The Bone Seeker by MJ McGrath

By crimefictionlover

4 October, 2014

After adventures taking in Ellesmere Island and Greenland in White Heat, and Alasaka in The Boy in the Snow, Edie Kiglatuk is back on Ellesmere for her third mystery. The half-Inuit heroine isn’t really a detective, she’s a hunter and a tracker, but this summer…

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The 10 most unexpected crime fiction settings

By MarinaSofia

22 May, 2014

Today sees the release of Craig Robertson’s latest novel, The Last Refuge. Rather than sticking to his native Scotland, the author chose to set his book in the Faroe Islands – a remote archipelago in the North Sea somewhere that we don’t really know much…

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