White Heat by M.J. McGrath

Edie Kiglatuk, half Inuit, half outsider, is taking tourists on an Arctic trek when one gets shot. It’s deemed to be an accident, but a shocking suicide soon after forces Edie to realize events may not be as straightforward as everyone is so determined to make them appear. M.J. McGrath knows her subject well — under the name Melanie McGrath, she wrote the non-fiction book The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic, about the forced relocation of Inuit families.

White Heat, by M.J. McGrath, $30.

— L.G.