White sky, black ice - Stan Jones

State Trooper Nathan Active has been posted to the Alaskan village of Chukchi. Surrendered for adoption at birth by his Inuit mother, he knows little of the indigenous culture and even less about the strange series of suicides plaguing the village. Can a shaman's curse really be at work, as the superstitious community believes, or is Trooper Active's hunch of foul play more than mere suspicion? Against a backdrop of awe-inspiring Alaskan tundra and a cast of idiosyncratic local characters the mystery unravels, and Active begins to understand not only the truth behind the deaths, but also his own Eskimo heritage and the traditions of the Inuit people.