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Dead of Winter
Gerri Brightwell
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Description for Dead of Winter
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784630492
SKU
V9781784630492
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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, ... Read more
Reviews for Dead of Winter
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
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