-A thriller that has stunned readers on both sides of the Atlantic. With elegant prose, an extraordinarily realized heroine, and clever plotting, this is by no means an ordinary suspense story. Isaiah, the son of one of Smilla Jasperson's neighbors, is found face-down in the snow outside her Copenhagen apartment building, leaving the usually stoical Smilla disturbed. She quickly rejects the official verdict of accidental death when she observes the footprints the boy left in the snow.