A multi-award winning narrator (Audie, Earphones), Kate reading is also an actor of note in the Washington, D.C. area. While White Heat is surely a frightening story, Reading’s taut, carefully delivered narration adds additional chills.
Edie Kiglatuk is a half white, half Intuit former polar bear hunter. She’s a struggling alcoholic who seems to be losing the battle, she had “already drunk away her hunting career and was well on the way to drinking away her life.” Edie lives in the small Arctic settlement of Autisaq where she works as a guide. Her last client, really late last client, tourist Felix Wagner, was killed while on their shooting expedition.
She has been at sword’s points for sometime with the local elders who now want to forget the death, file it away as a hunting accident. She’s not comfortable with this, sensing there is something more, much more. What she does not know is that her search for the truth will take her far away from her home village and out onto the frozen wastes of the tundra.
In McGrath’s hands the unforgiving landscape and sub zero temperatures are as much a part of the story as Edie and a crew of disparate characters. So, keep a blanket at the ready and enjoy this one-of-a-kind thriller.
- Gail Cooke
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