Girl In Ice

By: Erica Ferencik

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

In this gripping Arctic thriller from the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle, a linguist travels to a remote Greenland research station to investigate her twin brother’s suspicious death—and a mysterious girl thawed alive from the ice—blending psychological suspense, survival adventure, and climate fiction.

Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is an expert in dead Nordic languages, more comfortable with ancient texts than the outside world. But when her twin brother, a climate scientist stationed on an isolated island off Greenland, is found dead after walking into subzero wilderness, Val refuses to believe it was suicide.

When a fellow researcher discovers a girl frozen in the ice—alive and speaking an unknown language—Val is called north to help interpret her words. Determined to uncover the truth, she embarks on a perilous journey into a stark and hostile landscape.

As Val confronts her fears and deciphers the girl’s cryptic language, she begins to suspect that the answers to both mysteries lie buried within the research itself. With the child’s life hanging in the balance and danger closing in, Val must uncover the truth before it disappears beneath the ice.

Atmospheric, suspenseful, and emotionally resonant, this literary thriller explores grief, isolation, science, and survival at the edge of the world.

Girl In Ice made me feel Warm

Fascinating and beautiful story. The performance was excellent. Generally I am not a fan of sci fi but I actually believed that this story if not happening now, will happen one day soon.

Fantastic!

Very well written, and the performance was one of the best I have ever heard.

Girl in Ice -interesting and overwrought

The protagonist of Girl in Ice is a neurotic mess, even though she finally pulls it together after 400+ pages. The narrator portrays this with very fast, anxious delivery — from start to finish, with no variation. I had to slow down the reading to .8 to make it listenable. Otherwise the storyline is interesting and provides what seems to be a fairly accurate portrayal of the isolated lives of scientists in the Arctic.

Dark and depressing

Certainly there were insightful moments - but the author so successfully created an ominous and duplicitous environment that was inescapable - she took the reader down with the characters. That may be exactly what some reader’s are looking for - but that wasn’t what I anticipated when I read the description. The narrator was quite good in the role.

Ice girl

Kept my interest. I could relate the characters. It was a quick read. Gave me some thing to think about.