The Beckoning Ice

The fifth in the Wiki Coffin series finds the U.S. Exploring Expedition off Cape Horn, a grim outpost made still more threatening by the report of a corpse on a drifting iceberg, closely followed by a gruesome death on board. Was it suicide, or a particularly brutal murder? Wiki investigates, only to find himself fighting desperately for his own life.

Joan Druett is a maritime historian who is an expert of whaling history, and the stories of women and Polynesians at sea. She lives in New Zealand, but travels widely about the Pacific, the South China Sea, and the United States.