Bernadette Calonego, a Swiss-Canadian author whose crime novels have been translated into English, has lived in Canada for over twenty years. She splits her time between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Newfoundland. Her stories are inspired by the wilderness and expeditions to the North. This crime story is set in the rugged Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Bernadette Calonego moved to Canada from Switzerland more than twenty years ago. As a journalist, she was able to experience remote areas which inspire her to write mystery novels. More than a dozen years ago, she toured the Ekati diamond mine near Yellowknife as a correspondent for European newspapers. Yellowknife and a diamond exploration camp in the vast tundra of the Northwest Territories became crucial locations in her mystery novel Under Dark Waters. She would never have dreamt that one day, she would travel on the legendary Dempster Highway in the winter: 737 kilometers across the Arctic wilderness to Inuvik and then over the old Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk and the Arctic Ocean. The result of that trip: her murder mystery The Stranger on the Ice. And now comes A Dark Chill: People who live in a very remote area of Newfoundland with blizzards and a frozen ocean. They face life-threatening situations on a daily basis. Not only with polar bears and other wild animals but also with humans who murder in cold blood.
