Books by Derek B Miller
“This novel is set in Italy in 1943, in and around the Abbey of Monte Cassino. It’s a heist-within-a heist…Pietro Houdini is posing as someone restoring works of art, and they go to the Abbey, which is full to the brim with the most important artworks in Italy. Italy is occupied by Germany and under fascism and the Allies are gradually advancing northward. You know that this war is going to come upon them in Monte Cassino. Houdini’s plan is to steal three paintings from the Nazis, while the Nazis themselves are emptying the Abbey of all these incredible treasures.” Read more...
“American by Day is engagingly written. It’s the follow-up to Norwegian by Night, and sends the Norwegian cop Sigrid to upstate New York to find her missing older brother Marcus, who is suspected of having murdered his girlfriend.” Read more...
The Best Crime Fiction of 2019
Val McDermid, Novelist
Interviews where books by Derek B Miller were recommended
The Best Crime Fiction of 2019, recommended by Val McDermid
It’s been a great year for crime fiction – with soaring sales and global bestsellers emerging from writers all over the world. Crime writing is rightly in the ascendancy, says the celebrated Scottish novelist Val McDermid as she selects the best crime fiction of 2019: five books that stand as great novels in their own right.
The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize, recommended by Emma Styles
If you love adventure stories, you’ll be delighted to hear that there’s a book prize fully focused on them. Novelist Emma Styles, one of the judges for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, talks us through the shortlist for best published novel, from pirates in the Caribbean to World War II Italy, from Victorian London to a dystopian future Britain—by way of Nigeria and Tbilisi, Georgia.
