Awards

• Shortlisted for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2013.
• Winner of CrimeFest Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2014
• Winner of CrimeFest Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2014.
• Winner of CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2013
• Winner of CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2013.

Overview

Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man coming to terms with the tragedy of his own life as he tries to save another's. It combines laconic, deadpan humour, moral seriousness, visceral grief, and narrative tension in a remarkable way. An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero. Sheldon Horowitz - 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable - is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. With an endearing combination of dexterity and daring, Sheldon manages to elude the police in what is hostile, foreign territory for him. But what he doesn't know is that the police and the gang both know where he's heading. Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man coming to terms with the tragedy of his own life as he tries to save another's. It combines laconic, deadpan humour, moral seriousness, visceral grief, and narrative tension in a remarkable way. An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero. 'Thoughtful, complex, gripping and very funny.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'Humane, Blackly funny, heart-breaking ... Brilliant.' Herald Sun 'It is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful novels you will read this year.' ABC Radio

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Derek B. Miller was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived abroad for over fifteen years in Israel, England, Hungary, Switzerland, and Norway. His interest in fiction began a few years after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, Derek is the director of The Policy Lab and a senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He has a PhD in international relations from the University of Geneva, and an MA in national security studies from Georgetown University, in cooperation with St Catherine's College, University of Oxford. He lives in Oslo with his wife and children.

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