STRANGE THINGS DONE
“The Girl on a Train meets Robert Service.”
— The Toronto Star
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, the RCMP have begun treating the death as a possible murder and Jo as 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.
“A slick, witty thriller.”
— The Vancouver Sun
Winner of the CWC
Award of Excellence
for Best First Novel
2017
Women in Film
From Our Dark Side
Best Story
2017
Winner of the CWC
Award of Excellence
Best Unpublished
2015
AWARDS
2017 Winner, “Best First Novel”, from Crime Writers of Canada, presented by Kobo
2017 Winner, “From Our Dark Side” competition for genre writing, from Women in Film & Video Vancouver
2015 Winner, “Best Unpublished First Crime Novel”, Crime Writers of Canada
2014 Silver Winner, Southwest Writers Annual Novel Writing Contest
2014 Shortlisted, Telegraph/Harvill Secker Crime Competition (UK)
2014 Shortlisted, Criminal Lines crime-writing contest by A.M. Heath Literary Agents (UK)
2014 Longlisted, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (US)
Published by
Dundurn Press, Toronto, Canada
REVIEWS
“The Girl on a Train meets Robert Service.”
— The Toronto Star
“A slick, witty thriller.”
— The Vancouver Sun
“An entertaining story that captures much of the surrealism of the North and the colorful characters drawn to it.”
— Publishers Weekly
"What a wonderful dark, quirky, and complex debut novel this is."
– Ian Hamilton, author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee series
"Watch for the name Elle Wild; we’ll see much more from this genuine new talent in the future."
– Gail Anderson-Dargatz, author of the Giller Prize short-listed novels The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees
"A remote Canadian community hunkering down for a grim, lonely winter is the perfect setting for this atmospheric crime novel"
– Library Journal
“The characters in this book are well-developed; the descriptions of the atmosphere and winter are poetic. Wild knows how to keep her readers up all night and Strange Things Done is a good book for a long, dark winter night.”
-What’s Up Yukon