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2015 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel -- Winner 2014 Telegraph/Harvill Secker Crime Competition -- Shortlisted 2014 Southwest Writers Annual Novel Writing Contest -- Silver Winner 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award -- Longlisted A dark and suspenseful noir thriller, set in the Yukon. As winter closes in and the roads snow over in Dawson City, Yukon, newly arrived journalist Jo Silver investigates the dubious suicide of a local politician and quickly discovers that not everything in the sleepy tourist town is what it seems. Before long, law enforcement begins treating the death as a possible murder and Jo is the prime suspect. Strange Things Done is a top-notch thriller -- a tense and stylish crime novel that explores the double themes of trust and betrayal.
About the Author
Elle Wild grew up in a dark, rambling farmhouse in the wilds of Canada where there was nothing to do but read Edgar Allan Poe and watch PBS mysteries. She is an award-winning short filmmaker and the former writer/host of the radio program Wide Awake on CBC Radio One. Her short fiction has been published in Ellery Queen Magazine and her articles have appeared in The Toronto Star, Georgia Straight, and Westender. Wild's debut novel, Strange Things Done, (out Sept 24th, 2016 with Dundurn) won the Arthur Ellis Award 2015 for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel, and was shortlisted in multiple contests internationally. Recently returned from the U.K., Wild currently resides on an island in the Salish Sea named after the bones of dead whales.
