{"product_id":"a-gift-before-dying-a-novel","title":"A Gift Before Dying: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eHypnotically goodinstantly immersive, intense, and ultimately inspiring.Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesIn a hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with iceand blood.Kempt, who worked as a criminal lawyer in the Arctic for almost two decades, conjures this forbidding landscape and its residents with artful authority.The Wall Street JournalAfter a botched highprofile murder investigation, Corporal Elderick Cole is exiled to the remote, rugged landscape of Nunavut, a vast territory in the Arctic Circle known for its untamed beauty, frigid temperatures, and endless winter nights. With his family having severed all ties, Cole waits out the result of a civil lawsuit alonethe wrong verdict could end whats left of his flailing career.His bleak existence takes a sinister turn when he discovers the hanging body of Pitseolala, a troubled Inuit girl whom he had sworn to protect. Her death dredges up demons he thought hed buried along with the scars of a fractured marriage and the aching divide between him and his estranged daughter.As Coles life unravelsand with it, the fragile thread of his investigation, he turns to Pitseolalas younger brother, Maliktu, a fellow outsider. Its then that Cole uncovers what binds thema singular mission to find her killer.Against fierce backlash, Coles overriding desire to redeem just one aspect of his otherwise failed life becomes an obsessionand hes willing to break every rule in his unyielding pursuit of justice and the smallest shred of redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CROWN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47953111482613,"sku":"DADAX0593801008","price":27.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91JjcSRhLzL.jpg?v=1775486169","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/a-gift-before-dying-a-novel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}