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Maud Tabachnik chooses a place of extremes for her latest novel; the remote frozen tundra and small town life of Manitoba in Canada.  Major events however in Jours de glace (Days of Ice) shake up the small town of Woodfoll where Lou Gyrnspan is sheriff, events that have repercussions and reveal underlying prejudices in the characteristics of its inhabitants, characteristics however that Tabachnik isn't quite able to convincingly grasp and turn to the advantage of the thriller plot. The temperature in Woodfoll rarely rises above -15° and conditions in the region seem to be worsening, making life difficult for its inhabitants and for the law authorities.  It's considered the perfect place however for a new experimental high-tech penitentiary built 25km outside the town that is going to treat 60 of North America's most dangerous criminals, with only 20 guards and a group of psychoanalysts.  Among the psychotics, schizophrenics, sociopaths, paedophiles and rapists with recid...