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Hewed out of a frozen mountain six hundred miles from the North Pole, the Doomsday Seed Vault was designed to safeguard the earth’s precious collection of seeds from rising sea levels, hurtling asteroids, nuclear holocaust, and every other conceivable disaster. But no fortress, however remote or carefully constructed, can protect against human corruption and men who have made it their business to gain control of the world’s food supply.
Dinah Pelerin had no idea when she left sunny Hawaii on an undercover fact-finding mission to the seed vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, that she would get a crash course in the politics of genetic engineering, or that she would become embroiled in the marital troubles of an American presidential candidate and his enigmatic, Norwegian-born wife. Or that a dead body would tumble out of the hotel sauna into her arms.
In late December, Polar Night wraps around the little town of Longyearbyen like a lead blanket, impenetrable and endless. The temperature rarely climbs above zero and bodies don’t decompose in the permafrost. The dead have to be shipped south for burial and soon there are two murder victims headed there. Who has killed them, and why? With three U.S. senators, a powerful corporate CEO, and a Norwegian government minister as her fellow suspects, Dinah is under no illusions. She had better untangle the knot of motives and pretenses fast or suspicion will come crashing downhill like an avalanche and bury her so deep she’ll never see daylight again.
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"The last place that anthropologist and ethnobotanist Dinah Pelerin wants to be is at the North Pole in the middle of winter. But that’s where she finds herself after she is asked to take part in a visit to Norway’s Longyearbyen, home of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a repository for exemplars of the world’s food crops. Joining her on the trip are several senators, one senator’s Norwegian wife (a former rock star), and the head of a major agribusiness company. When a protestor questioning the integrity of the seed bank turns up dead, everyone in the delegation is a suspect. Then another body literally falls out of the hotel sauna into Dinah’s arms, and things get really dicey. Dinah figures the only way out of this mess is to find the killer, but to do that she’ll need the help of a journalist whose ethics are situational at best and a local police detective who is not easy to read. This entertaining mystery, boasting a timely theme and colorful characters, will be perfect for those who like to do their extreme traveling in the pages of a crime novel." —Booklist review by Barbara Bibel