Dead of Winter Gerri Brightwell

Name: Dead of Winter By Gerri Brightwell
SKU: 9781784630492
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Dead of Winter by Gerri Brightwell

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Summary

Dead of Winter is a fast-paced darkly funny crime novel that follows down-on-his-luck Alaskan cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he tries to save his daughter from an incompetent but determined local militia.

Dead of Winter Summary

Dead of Winter by Gerri Brightwell

A fast-paced, darkly funny crime novel set in Interior Alaska that follows down-on-his-luck cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he searches for his daughter.

Her step-father has been shot in her bathroom, and Fisher thinks she killed him and fled. In a panic he tries to hide the body, but that's not easy when it's fifty-below outside.

Things get dangerously complicated when it turns out step-dad was part of a local militia, and now they're on Fisher's tail.

Dead of Winter evokes the harshness of winter in the sub-arctic and the intrigue fostered in a bored, trapped and socially circumscribed small-town community.

Dead of Winter Reviews

Brightwell uses the present tense, third person but from Fisher's perspective throughout, skilfully taking an initially unappealing protagonist and building interest in the outcome. The constraints of a small and isolated community at what feels like the edge of civilisation form a powerful backdrop to the story of a very ordinary man fighting for his life.

-- Chris Roberts * Crime Review *

About Gerri Brightwell

Gerri Brightwell was brought up in South Devon. After deciding a degree in zoology was not for her, she took up literature and art history, and lived on a narrow boat in Bristol. Since then she has roamed more widely, working in Spain, Thailand, Canada and the United States. She has worked as a cleaner, ice-cream seller, sandwich-maker, pottery sponger, editor and nanny, and is now a professor of creative writing at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She is married to fantasy writer, Ian C. Esslemont.

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Sku

GOR013701092

ISBN 13

9781784630492

ISBN 10

1784630497

Title

Dead of Winter by Gerri Brightwell

Author

Gerri Brightwell

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Salt Publishing

Year published

20160315

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

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Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins