American by Day

<strong>A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid--the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut<em> Norwegian by Night</em>--from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother.<br/><br/></strong>She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories seen the movies read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African American academic--America.<br/><br/>Sigrid is plunged into a United States where race and identity politics and promise reverberate in every aspect of daily life. Working with--or if necessary against--the police she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the backwoods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before events escalate further.<br/><br/>Refreshingly funny slyly perceptive <em>American by Day</em> is a superb novel on all levels (<em>Times</em> UK).<strong><br/></strong><br/>Ingenious. Humorous. Wonderful.--Lee Child