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by Elle Wild (Author)
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best First Novel -- Winner
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.
2017 Women in Film "From Our Dark Side" Contest -- Winner - 2015 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel -- Winner - 2014 Telegraph/Harvill Secker Crime Competition -- Shortlisted - 2014 Southwest Writers Annual Novel Writing Contest -- Silver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 Criminal Lines Crime-Writing Competition -- Shortlisted - 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award -- Longlisted
Author Biography
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 host of Wide Awake on CBC Radio One. Her debut novel, Strange Things Done, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Wild lives on an island in the Salish Sea.
