About the book
In this winner of the Crime Writerss Association John Creasey Dagger Award and the Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.
Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway—a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them an unlikely hero and former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway.
Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As this man on the run and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, this suspense novel weaves past and present together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year, Kirkus Reviews Best Crime Novel of the Year, and an Indie Next Selection. You can find the coming-of-age story of Sheldon Horowitz in How To Find Your Way in the Dark. Additionally, this compelling crime thriller is the first novel in which Sigrid Ødegård appears. You can follow her to her next case in American by Day.
Editions of Norwegian By Night
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780544292666
- EBook
- ISBN 9780547934884
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In this winner of the Crime Writerss Association John Creasey Dagger Award and the Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.
Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway—a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them an unlikely hero and former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway.
Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As this man on the run and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, this suspense novel weaves past and present together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year, Kirkus Reviews Best Crime Novel of the Year, and an Indie Next Selection. You can find the coming-of-age story of Sheldon Horowitz in How To Find Your Way in the Dark. Additionally, this compelling crime thriller is the first novel in which Sigrid Ødegård appears. You can follow her to her next case in American by Day.
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What is Norwegian By Night about?
In this winner of the Crime Writerss Association John Creasey Dagger Award and the Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.
Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway—a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them an unlikely hero and former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway.
Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As this man on the run and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, this suspense novel weaves past and present together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year, Kirkus Reviews Best Crime Novel of the Year, and an Indie Next Selection. You can find the coming-of-age story of Sheldon Horowitz in How To Find Your Way in the Dark. Additionally, this compelling crime thriller is the first novel in which Sigrid Ødegård appears. You can follow her to her next case in American by Day.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Norwegian By Night?
Fiction > Adventure / action fiction
Where can I read a sample of Norwegian By Night?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780544292666
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Norwegian By Night?
Derek B. Miller
Who is the Publisher of the book Norwegian By Night?
HarperCollins
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Norwegian By Night is available as paperback(ISBN 9780544292666) and ebook(ISBN 9780547934884)
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