Sunday Trade: Whiteout

Whiteout written by Greg Rucka, drawn and lettered by Steve Lieber

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko is stationed in exile at McMurdo Base in Antartica. Five men were in the survey mission and now one of them is a corpse without a face. And now she has to track down a murder committed on the ice before 90% of the various bases populations head out for the winter. Complicating the matter is Lily Sharpe, a British Intelligence agent with her own reasons for looking into the matter...

What makes the crime drama stand out is the setting, one of the most lethal on Earth. Though the tough female leads are up to Rucka's normal standards. Flawed heroes equal to Rucka's Tara Chace, Dex Parios or Rene Montoya...