Peter Hoeg — Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Flamingo 1994 Paperback, 416pp. One winter evening the neighbour's six year old boy falls to his death from the apartment roof in Copenhagen. Accidental death, say the police. But Smilla Jaspersen, a resourceful, tenacious and bloody-minded Greenlander, knows the boy well; moreover she has a felling for snow - and those last footprints tell her a tale . Her investigation starts in Denmark and leads to the Arctic ice cap as Smilla doggedly homes in on her quarry. (ISBN: 9780006547839). Good.