Also published as: Smilla's Sense of Snow

Author: Peter Hoeg Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Award winners, Thriller Culture: Denmark Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9781860461675 1860461670

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.  And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... 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 his death an accident.  But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own.  Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her 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 the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice.... Similar books: The Sun Chemist by Lionel Davidson Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith Wilderness by Robert B. Parker Strangers on a train by Patricia Highsmith The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith Glitz by Elmore Leonard Mr Majestyk by Elmore Leonard People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith Borderliners by Peter Hoeg The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Hoeg The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg