On the Ice: A Mystery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250458797)

A chilling, complex mystery about a screenwriter's feverish search for her missing brother on an Antarctic research station by debut author Keaton McGruder.

Ellie Best wins a coveted grant to write a screenplay while staying in Antarctica at McMurdo Station, and the best part is that her brother Leo, a climate scientist, is leading a research expedition there. But when she arrives, Leo has gone missing . . . and no one can survive for long out on the ice.

Desperate to find out what happened to Leo, Ellie begins to investigate. Everyone is a suspect in the isolated, claustrophobic research station. The scientists and support workers Leo knew were changed by the months of darkness, forming a tangled web of relationships, lovers, enemies and secrets. And when there's a deadly fire on the base that echoes the script Ellie is writing, she realizes that danger is still lurking in the station--and she could be the next target.

Told in dual perspectives, in Leo's polar winter in pure darkness and Ellie's austral summer in constant light, On the Ice is a chilling debut mystery about isolation, survival, and the need for human connection and love--set against the breathtaking, and deadly, landscape of Antarctica.

Author: Keaton McGruder
ISBN-10: 125045879X
ISBN-13: 9781250458797
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2027
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d