Smilla's Sense of Snow

A boy named Isaiah falls from a Christianshavn rooftop onto the frozen Copenhagen snow. His neighbor Smilla — half-Greenlandic, half-Danish, raised on Arctic ice — reads the footprints and knows this was no accident. Her investigation moves through the canal district apartments and the harbor's industrial edge, through corporate archives and shipping records, before leaving Copenhagen entirely for Greenland's glaciers. Høeg wrote a thriller powered not by guns but by crystallography, Inuit navigation, and the particular loneliness of a woman who understands ice better than people. Copenhagen in winter has never felt more dangerous.