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.
[A] highly readable, slick and professionally executed
thriller.
*Vancouver Sun*
The title is perfect, the characters fully developed, the plot
well-paced and gripping, but this is above all a novel about
setting. And what a setting it is. Dawson City, Yukon, as the
tourists flee and the long, dark, lonely winter settles in. The
airport and roads close, the winds blow, and the snow piles up,
trapping those who remain in town, including a journalist haunted
by a tragic mistake and so determined not to make it again that
events begin repeating themselves. This is the Dawson City of
relentless gamblers, heavy drinkers, tattooed bar girls, ruthless
miners, and people who’ve reached the end of the road and find
there is nowhere left to go. The perfect setting for a novel about
conflicted people and dark ambition.
*Vicki Delany, author of the Constable Molly Smith series*
[A]n entertaining story that captures much of the surrealism of the
North and the colorful characters drawn to it.
*Publishers Weekly*
It's easy to see why this is an award winner. It's a well-spun
thriller, set in a closed community, with the cold, snowy weather
bringing in an extra element of menace.
*Reviewingtheevidence.com*
A remote Canadian community hunkering down for a grim, lonely
winter is the perfect setting for this atmospheric crime novel.
*Library Journal*
Elle Wild’s Strange Things Done is a boisterous tale of small town
eccentrics, dark secrets, and strange things done in the bush, all
delivered in crisp, expert prose. Wild’s suspenseful tale of murder
and mayhem in the Yukon delivers on its promise of noir thrills and
chills.
*Gail Anderson-Dargatz, author of The Cure for Death by Lightning
and A Recipe for Bees*
What a wonderful dark, quirky, and complex debut novel this is.
Canada’s north was never more sinister. Jo Silver is a character
who needs more than one book.
*Ian Hamilton, author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee
series*
The Girl on the Train meets Robert Service.
*Toronto Star*
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