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Arctic mysteries: writing crime in the land of no forgetting

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ARCTIC MYSTERIES: WRITING CRIME
IN THE LAND OF NO FORGETTING
Melanie McGrath
My name is Melanie McGrath. I am a journalist and crime writer based in
London. Depending on which way you look at it, I have the good luck or
misfortune to find your continent more interesting than my own. So I travel
a lot to the Americas, where memory is often thought to lie more lightly on
the land than in Europe. I did spend a few years in Nicaragua but mostly
I’m to be found in the North. And by that I mean the Arctic. I’ve been lucky
enough to travel to Alaska in the West and to the Queen Elizabeth Islands
in Arctic Canada.
The North American Arctic is the setting for my series of crime novels.
Two of the three novels in the series are set in the fictional settlement of
Autisaq, which is loosely based on Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island. It’s an
inhospitable place, but people live there. And they die there, too.
The reliability of memory and the way it can be manipulated plays a huge
role in my books, but it’s not the kind of memory that most of us are likely to
be familiar with. My characters are mainly Inuit or part Inuit and they have
very different ideas about remembrance from those of people further south.
Importantly, for my work in crime fiction, theirs is not the kind of memory
recognized by the Canadian criminal justice system. The differences in the
two approaches are part of what creates dramatic tension in my work. So, I’ll

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