BlizzardThe Alaskan wilds are the setting for Marie Vingtras's compelling Blizzard a chilling, tense read Observer Winner of Prix Des Libraires, the French Booksellers' Prize for Best Novel of the Year. An Observer Crime and thriller of the month I lost him. I let go of his hand to do up my shoelaces and I lost him As a blizzard rages in the vast, white expanse of the Alaskan wilderness, a woman walks alone with a child. No one sees her as she stops to tie