Derek Miller

Oct 9, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Louis De Bernieres |Chukwuebuka Ibeh |C. E. McGill |Derek Miller

recommended by Emma Styles Winner of the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Saltblood by Francesca de Tores If you love adventure stories, you'll be delighted to hear that there's a book prize fully focused on them.

Apr 19, 2024 | thejc.com | Derek Miller |Jenni Frazer

​ He looked me over, assessed my wristwatch, considered my shoes and the likely cost of my hairdo, and tried to decide if I came from a family worth talking to; such is Italy.” In one crisp sentence, Derek B Miller plunges the reader into a riveting mystery set against one of the greatest and most important battles of the Second World War, Montecassino.

Mar 16, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Derek Miller |Adelle Waldman |Joel Morris |Hisashi Kashiwai

These works of literary fiction are newly available from the Allen County Public Library. “The Curse of Pietro Houdini”by Derek B. Miller In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within a Benedictine abbey’s wall, accompanies him on a World War II art heist adventure. They lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they’ve rescued from the “safe keeping” of the Germans.

Feb 7, 2024 | caledonenterprise.com | Janet Somerville |Kristin Hannah |Melanie Maure |Derek Miller

The WomenBy Kristin HannahSt. Martin’s Press, 480 pages, $40.00 It’s 1966 and young nurse, Frankie McGrath, raised in sheltered privilege in California, decides to defy her conservative parents and follow her brother Finley to Vietnam.

Feb 1, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Derek Miller

Funny how even avid readers — the couple-of-books-a-week nutballs who regularly pore over reviews in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and (hopefully) the Independent — can miss an author they should know about. In this case, it’s a guy who’s won prizes and written some sophisticated, wryly suspenseful novels, including American by Day(involving the odd but telling differences between Scandinavian and U.S. crime-fighting) and The Girl in Green(addressing the surreality of war).