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• Strange Things Done TAP Books/Dundurn (Toronto, ON, Canada), 2016

1. Strange things done LCCN 2016497788 Type of material Book Personal name Wild, Elle, author. Main title Strange things done / Elle Wild. Published/Produced Toronto, Ontario, Canada : TAP Books, Dundurn, [2016] ©2016 Description 304 pages ; 22 cm ISBN 9781459733800 (paperback) 9781459733817 (pdf) 9781459733824 (epub) CALL NUMBER PR9199.4.W5418 S77 2016 Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms

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  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 writer/host of the radio program Wide Awake on CBC Radio One. Her short fiction has been published in Ellery Queen Magazine. Strange Things Done, Wild’s first novel, won the Arthur Ellis Award 2015 for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel and was shortlisted internationally. Wild lives on an island in the Salish Sea.

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  On the road to crime with novelist Elle Wild
  The Daily rides shotgun on the Alaska Highway to Yukon noir.

  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 writer/host of the radio program Wide Awake on CBC Radio One. Her short fiction has been published in Ellery Queen Magazine and her forthcoming short is currently a Finalist in the 2017 National Capital Writing Contest (NCWC) presented by the Canadian Authors Association, and will be part of an anthology of Canadian literary fiction to celebrate Canada’s 150th.

  Wild’s debut novel, Strange Things Done, won the Arthur Ellis Award 2015 for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel, as well as the Silver Prize in the SouthWest Writers Annual Novel Competition (U.S.), and was shortlisted in multiple contests internationally. Strange Things Done is out now with Dundurn Press and in early 2017 made the #1 Amazon Best Seller list in Canada for Noir. In March 2017, Strange was a winner in the Women in Film & Video Vancouver “From Our Dark Side” genre writing competition, receiving 5 months of film development mentorship and a trip to the Montreal FRONTIÈRES Co-Production Market. Strange Things Done has just been nominated “Best First Novel” by the Arthur Ellis Awards 2017, sponsored by Kobo.

  Recently returned from the U.K., Wild currently resides on an island in the Salish Sea named after the bones of dead whales.

  The Daily rides shotgun on the Alaska Highway to Yukon noir.

  Rumours abound concerning the criminal mind of author Elle Wild. Her debut work of fiction, Strange Things Done, won the Arthur Ellis Award 2015 for Best Unpublished Crime Novel and was shortlisted for prizes in the U.K. and in the States, including the Telegraph’s prestigious Crime Competition. But now that the novel has been picked up by Dundurn Press for publication on September 24th, 2016, questions have come to light about Wild’s shady past.

  Is Elle Wild the wide-eyed literary crime debutante that she claims to be? Or is it possible that she has darker, perhaps criminal, purpose? Today The Daily digs into her story to find revealing nuggets about Canada’s noir novelist.

  Strange Things Done has been described as a Nordic-style noir set in the Yukon. You have a bit of a family history with the Yukon – would you say that’s true?

  Yes, that’s true. I had an aunt, “Myrna-the-Pins-Cunningham”, who worked in the North as a cancan dancer. Also, a branch of the family was very involved in gold mining in the Yukon. I remember hearing stories about their gold claim as a child, and these formed my early impressions of the North. To me, the North was always a place filled with danger, risk, and adventure. And, of course, gold. My father used to recite the Robert Service poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee, around the campfire when I was a kid. I was captivated by this world.
  And you used a line from that poem as the title for your debut novel…

  Yes. “Strange Things Done.” It fit with the world that I wanted to create, a world where everyone was consumed by gold fever. The opening lines of the Service poem go like this:
  There are strange things done in the midnight sun
  By the men who moil for gold;
  The Arctic trails have their secret tales
  That would make your blood run cold;
  Are the characters in your book “gold diggers”?

  Yes, the novel is heavily populated with gold-diggers. Everyone has a claim. Everyone is waiting to hit “pay dirt”. I see this novel as being a mix of something like The Luminaries, where characters in a small, remote mining community are all keeping secrets from one another, motivated largely by their own greed, and a modern noir, like Peter Hoeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow. My novel is set in modern day Dawson City, which was the epicentre of the Gold Rush at the turn of the last century but is still a hub for mining. To date, readers have said that the story has a thread of dark humour running through it that makes it special, like a Michael Chabon mystery. That’s where the gold is for me.
  You also spent some time living in the Yukon — is that correct?

  Dawson City, where Strange Things Done is set. In return for room and board, I screened my short films for the town.
  What drew you to Dawson City as a setting for your novel?

  I fell in love with this eccentric little mining town stuck in the Victorian/gold rush era. If you close your eyes and picture a set for a Western movie, but with snow instead of tumbleweed drifting through town, you’ll be able to envision Dawson City. Dawson is notorious for being a city of second chances – a good place to hide if you’re a felon, draft dodger, or a corrupt politician. It’s also still a good place to strike it rich as a gold miner, or to mine the pockets of miners if you’re a burlesque dancer.
  What drew you to Dawson City as a setting for your novel?

  I fell in love with this eccentric little mining town stuck in the Victorian/gold rush era. If you close your eyes and picture a set for a Western movie, but with snow instead of tumbleweed drifting through town, you’ll be able to envision Dawson City. Dawson is notorious for being a city of second chances – a good place to hide if you’re a felon, draft dodger, or a corrupt politician. It’s also still a good place to strike it rich as a gold miner, or to mine the pockets of miners if you’re a burlesque dancer.The thing that most fascinated me about Dawson, aside from the colourful cast of characters and the extraordinary look of the place, was the isolation. Dawson is way up north, near Alaska, so as you can imagine, winter is very intense. Then the Top of the World Highway to Alaska closes and the Yukon River freezes (“freeze-up”), in effect cutting Dawson off from the rest of the world. There’s only one major artery out: the Klondike Highway, which often snows over. This is why the population drops from roughly 60,000 people in the summer to just over a thousand before freeze-up hits, which is when most people leave.When I lived in Dawson, I remember thinking, “What if something terrible happened in Dawson in the dead of winter – how would people get out? How would they feel? How would relationships be altered?” These questions triggered my novel.
  Do you see writing in the “crime genre” as selling out? Does writing crime make you a gold digger?

  Well, when I was in the Masters Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia, I had to refer to my manuscript as a literary mystery, because the university didn’t accept works of genre fiction in the program. Crime fiction is one of the bestselling genres, and the most borrowed genre at public libraries. It would be fair to say that, as a former copywriter in advertising, I do think about what story might appeal to my target market. Does that make me a gold-digger if I write crime? Look, Margaret Atwood writes crime, and she is one of Canada’s literary greats. Essentially, Alias Grace is a crime novel.
  What about the alleged incident with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service? Is it true that CSIS confiscated your laptop due to the kind of research you were doing? Were you really looking for the best way to dispose of a body in the Canadian North? And is your writing just a guise for your own dark criminal plans?

  No comment.
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  AWARDS

  2017 “Best First Novel” in the Arthur Ellis Awards 2017 — Current Finalist (Winner to be announced May 25th.)
  2017 “From Our Dark Side” for genre writing, presented by Women in Film & Video, Winner
  2015 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel – Winner
  2014 Southwest Writers Annual Novel Writing Contest – Silver Winner
  2014 Telegraph/Harvill Secker Crime Competition – Shortlisted
  2014 Criminal Lines crime-writing contest by A.M. Heath Literary Agents – Shortlisted
  2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award – Longlisted

  REVIEWS

  “The Girl on a Train meets Robert Service.”
  — The Toronto Star
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  “A slick, witty thriller.”
  — The Vancouver Sun
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  “Elle Wild’s Strange Things Done has everything I want in a novel: it’s a boisterous tale of small town eccentrics, dark secrets and strange things done in the bush, all delivered in crisp, expert prose. Already an award-winner even before it was published, Wild’s suspenseful tale of murder and mayhem in the Yukon delivers on its promise of noir thrills and chills. 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

  “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

  “It’s immediately obvious that Elle Wild worked long and hard on her debut novel, rather than rushing it into print. Her 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 In the Shadow of the Glacier

  “A remote Canadian community hunkering down for a grim, lonely winter is the perfect setting for this atmospheric crime novel, which won the Arthur Ellis Award 2015 for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. Its claustrophobic mood is well defined and bound to appeal to fans of Dana Stabenow and Steve Hamilton.”

  – Library Journal

  “An entertaining story that captures much of the surrealism of the North and the colorful characters drawn to it.”

  –Publishers Weekly

  “Strange Things Done rates a solid 5 stars and joins my favourites of 2016 on the keeper shelf.”

  — Cheryl Harrington, Author/Host of #TheWriteSpot.

  “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

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  Strange Things Done
  A tense and stylish crime novel that explores the double
  themes of trust and betrayal.

  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.

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  Dawson police are looking into the death of a local politician who was discovered this morning in the Yukon River.
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  Strange Things Done is out September 24th with Dundurn Press and Thomas Allen Publishers.
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Wild's debut novel is set in the Yukon's Dawson City, just as the freeze-up isolates the town, leaving its eccentric (and often fairly inebriated) citizens stuck with each other until spring. Journalist Jo Silver has come to take over the town's tiny newspaper, running away from the guilt she feels about her coverage of a serial murder case at her last job at the Vancouver Sun. Shortly after arriving and too drunk to remember the details, Jo takes a ride home from one of the locals and lands right in the middle of a murder investigation. Murders and disappearances start to rack up, and her determination to investigate several prominent members of the town and strange nighttime activities at a gold mine make Jo a target for both the town's moody and mysterious RCMP sergeant and the killer. The local residents are of the independent oddball variety one would expect in a remote outpost, particularly Jo's roommate/landlady, Sally, an exotic dancer easily underestimated but a crackerjack smart survivor. Although the ending feels too abrupt and pat, the killer's motivation too thin, this is an entertaining story that captures much of the surrealism of the North and the colorful characters drawn to it. Agent: Carolyn Forde, Westwood Creative Artists (Canada). (Oct.)
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• Vancouver Sun
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  Review: Strange Things Done a slick, witty thriller

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  Strange Things Done

  by Elle Wild

  Dundurn Press

  Jo Silver is the new editor of the ironically titled Dawson Daily – which comes out weekly – in Dawson City, Yukon. She’s moved north to recover from a career-limiting event in her work as a journalist in Vancouver, and arrives to take over the local paper in Dawson as the small community is absorbing news of a mysterious death in its midst. Within 24 hours she’s immersed in a torrent of intrigue that explores the conflicted motives, petty jealousies and thwarted ambitions found in small towns everywhere, with murder, desire and plot turns aplenty. The ethics of big business, media collusion and police corruption are also intertwined in this thoughtful and well-constructed narrative.

  Strange Things Done is a highly readable, slick and professionally executed thriller, one that sustains the reader’s interest well throughout its 300-plus pages. There’s much to admire here, not least the effective use of the north’s desolate landscape and the advent of the big winter freeze both to drive the narrative and as atmospheric detail. The plot moves at a good pace, maintaining consistency of time, place and character, and Elle Wild demonstrates a keen eye for sensuous detail, those smells, sights and sounds that hook readers into a story – as well as possessing the skills as a writer to capture such details with economy. A female bartender has “a malt whisky voice and nicotine-stained fingers”; a local municipal office smells of “wet wool and burning dust,” and throughout we’re aware of the shortening days and plunging temperatures that both play a role in and help to amplify the story’s climax.

  Wild can write tight, sometimes witty dialogue, and characters are adroitly imagined, from local RCMP sergeant Johnny Cariboo who uses bandages to hide his tattoos to Jo’s room-mate Sally, a bar-room dancer not above earning a little more on the side via the oldest profession on the planet. Deliciously, Wild also evokes the whispering campaigns and gossip of small-town life as a plot device; following Jo Silver’s questioning of the attractive, enigmatic artist Christopher Byrne in his pickup truck at night after the bars shut, it’s assumed by several of the townsfolk that they are an item. Whilst that may not be the case, the whispering campaign itself sows doubt in the reader’s mind and serves to heighten the atmosphere of uncertainty – to say nothing of the whiff of sleaziness – that surrounds Dawson City. Any more detailed description of the plot would risk giving away its denouement: suffice to say that the payoff is worth the wait, and hinted at just enough throughout the book to be plausible when it comes.

  If there’s any downside to this well-written debut, it may lie in its own polished achievement. Despite ticking every box one might look for in a thriller – mysterious deaths, events that foreshadow menace, characters that deceive, romantic sub-plots, finely executed prose, dream sequences and neatly observed detail – the reader is still left looking for what the poet Hart Crane called the “hot root,” that spark that lifts highly accomplished works into a different, unforgettable category.

  Since Strange Things Done seeks to transport the “Scandinavian Noir” genre to Canada’s frozen north, it’s perhaps not inappropriate to recall that Stieg Larsson originally wanted to name his first novel The Man Who Killed Women before the novel was given the more poetic, less violent and misogynistic title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo prior to publication. A change of name notwithstanding, Larsson’s work still delves into the dark nexus between sexual longing and death, between cowardice and the compulsion to reveal truth, with a bravery that gives added impetus to his narrative. Larsson carried the torment of being a teenage witness to sexual assault with him for thirty years before that torment found expression in the trilogy which brought him posthumous fame.

  Without descending to the clichéd saw of asking a creative artist to “write what you know,” one nonetheless finishes Strange Things Done wondering what this talented writer might do with a subject perhaps somewhat closer to her heart. Having taken great pains to hone her craft and demonstrated her capacity to execute a plot, paint characters and evince mood and atmosphere in this promising debut, we should look forward to what Elle Wild might do with subjects that arouse more passion in her and, by extension, her readers.

• The Book Review Directory
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  MYSTERY/DETECTIVE REVIEWS, THRILLER/SUSPENSE REVIEWS
  STRANGE THINGS DONE – BOOK REVIEW
  SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 REVIEWDIRECTOR 1 COMMENT
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  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, law enforcement begins treating the death as a possible murder and Jo is the prime suspect.

  Review

  Strange Things Done is Elle Wild’s debut album and what a great debut! The story starts in the in the small town of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. I love the dark and tense atmosphere that builds up in her narrative. I liked the way Elle Wild developed her characters, but I have to admit that I never quite warmed up to Jo. The chilling small tall narrative reminded me a bit of some of Stephen King’s great classics such as Salem’s lot. For that same reason, at times the story was a little slow for my taste. Overall, I highly recommend this dark and chilly novel.

  I would like to thank Dundurn and NetGalley for allowing me to read an early copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

  Rating: 4/5

  You can find Strange Things Done here.

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  STRANGE THINGS DONE
  by Elle Wild
  Dundurn, October 2016
  304 pages
  $18.99
  ISBN: 1459733800

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  Journalist Jo Silver, escaping a bad decision that cost her a crime reporter's job at a Vancouver newspaper and haunts her still, arrives in isolated Dawson City in the Yukon as winter settles a heavy blanket over the town. On her first day at work, she not only has a murder to cover—but finds herself part of it.

  The night before, Jo, out drinking, gets a ride home with Christopher Byrne, an attractive, enigmatic man. But her memory is hazy; all she remembers is Byrne arguing with a woman. And that woman, councilwoman Marlo McAdam and Byrne's ex-girlfriend, is now dead. Not only is Byrne a suspect, but so is Jo, as the bodies begin piling up around her.

  Jo is pulled into the story, and to the secrets of the small town, whose population numbers just over a thousand during the cold winter. Dawson City is an inhospitable place, especially after the freeze up, when the Yukon River turns into a slab of ice and the ferry is dry-docked. The airport closes, as well as the highways, as the town is snowed in. Dawson City doesn't even have cell service, and electricity is sporadic during winter storms.

  New in town, with a strange housemate, a newspaper editor who doesn't want to run controversial stories, and a pair of flimsy winter boots, Jo must find a way to get the truth into the newspaper—and avoid being the next victim on Page 1. There's no one Jo can really trust, as everyone in town seems to have a dark secret.

  STRANGE THINGS DONE, a debut novel, won the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Award, among several honors. 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. I surely wouldn't want to live in Dawson City, but it's a neat place to visit from the coziness of home. I'm hoping this is the beginning of a series, so I can drop in on again on the strange doings in Dawson City.

  § Lourdes Venard is an independent editor who divides her time between New York and Maui.

  Reviewed by Lourdes Venard, October 2016

• Quill and Quire
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  Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History

  by Ken S. Coates and William R. Morrison

  As poet Robert Service pointed out, “There are strange things done in the midnight sun.” Coates and Morrison, historians and authors of several books on the North, do a fine job of collecting a few of the strangest, highlighting some fascinating aspects of life in the Yukon between the Gold Rush and the Second World War.

  The book examines half a dozen murders in detail and briefly outlines several more, each case chosen to illustrate a different aspect of Yukon society at the time. The case of the Nantuck Brothers, for example, was the first murder of a European by a native person; another, that of Fournier and Labelle, the first case of fully premeditated murder for robbery.

  The authors demonstrate how each case played on the Yukoners’ fears, prejudices, and the practical necessities of living in such a remote part of the world. Some of the murders were extraordinarily brutal, but their interest often lies not in the grisly details, but in the light they shed on the social history of the Yukon.

  Strange Things Done is part true crime and part sociological study. It is a combination that works well, although the extended quotes from judicial summaries occasionally slow the pace. The book’s introductory chapter and conclusion place the idea of murder in the context of the Yukon. The surprise here is how law-abiding and free from “frontier justice” the Yukon was in the Gold Rush era. An appendix gives an historian’s perspective on the study of violent death. Violent death in the Yukon, it turns out, owes less to the stories of Service than the usual, mostly banal, reasons for murder. It is the unusual setting of the closed society that gives these tales a dimension that lifts them above the sensational

  Reviewer: John Wilson
  Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
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  Page Count: 248 pp
  Format: Cloth
  ISBN: 0-7735-2705-2
  Released: June
  Issue Date: 2004-5
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  The art of Strange Things Done
  Arctic, book reviews, mystery by Shawn
  I love mystery novels, and northern mysteries in particular. My sister, Ellen Wild, has a new book Strange Things Done coming out this September. The lead character of the novel is Jo Silver; after a body is found in the Yukon river, she is drawn into a mystery that leads her to fear for her own life. You can hear about the local reaction to the body’s discovery in this brief video. I love the visual look of the website for the book, with the superimposed photos of an old Yukon building and a cemetery. This aesthetic carries through to the trailer for the book, which she filmed in the Yukon. The imagery -the woman’s hair in the river, the ice, Brandy Zdan’s music, the quirky northern bar, the barking dog- create an atmospheric glimpse of a town with secrets. Think a northern Twin Peaks. The book already has won an impressive set of awards:
  2015 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel ― Winner
  2014 Telegraph/Harvill Secker Crime Competition ― Shortlisted
  2014 Southwest Writers Annual Novel Writing Contest ― Silver Winner
  2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award ― Longlisted
  You can find preorder the book (in the United States for October 18, 2016 or Canada for September 24, 2016) before “the freeze-up hits and the roads close.”
  Shawn Smallman, 2016
  Strange Things Done, quote by Ian Hamilton
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