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American By Day: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award
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American By Day: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award

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A thrilling race-against-time crime, a personal journey through grief and a meditation on the world in which we live, American By Day shows Derek B Miller (author of Norwegian By Night) to be one of the most imaginative and entertaining writers working today.

‘This book reminds me of the things that crime fiction can do when it works well … Miller isn’t afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don’t hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose. It’s not what you expect it to be. Val McDermid

She knew it was a weird place. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid deg rd has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic.

America.

And not someplace interesting, either- upstate New York.

Plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. To find her older brother, she needs the help of the local police who appear to have already made up their minds about the case. Working with - or, if necessary, against - someone actually named Sheriff Irving 'Irv’ Wylie, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the back woods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before it’s too late…

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2019

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
19 February 2019
Pages
416
ISBN
9781784163297

A thrilling race-against-time crime, a personal journey through grief and a meditation on the world in which we live, American By Day shows Derek B Miller (author of Norwegian By Night) to be one of the most imaginative and entertaining writers working today.

‘This book reminds me of the things that crime fiction can do when it works well … Miller isn’t afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don’t hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose. It’s not what you expect it to be. Val McDermid

She knew it was a weird place. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid deg rd has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic.

America.

And not someplace interesting, either- upstate New York.

Plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. To find her older brother, she needs the help of the local police who appear to have already made up their minds about the case. Working with - or, if necessary, against - someone actually named Sheriff Irving 'Irv’ Wylie, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the back woods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before it’s too late…

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2019

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
19 February 2019
Pages
416
ISBN
9781784163297