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.

About the Author
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.

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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781784630492
Author Gerri Brightwell
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Salt Publishing
Publisher Salt Publishing
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm