Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, but a trip to Motown these days is a trip to a past he'd just as soon forget. The city will forever remind him of his partner's death and of the bullet still lodged in his own chest.Then he gets a call from his old sergeant. A young man Alex helped put away—in the one big case that marked the high point of his career—will be getting out of prison. When the sergeant invites Alex downstate to have a drink for old ti...

New York Times Bestselling Author of Die a StrangerEdgar Award–winner Steve Hamilton introduced one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction with Alex McKnight. In Ice Run, Alex finds himself in the middle of a very strange mystery with much greater consequences than he ever anticipated. . . .Alex McKnight is happier than he can remember being in a long time. And it's all because of a woman—Natalie Reynaud, a Canadian police officer. When...

Edgar Award–winner Steve Hamilton takes his acclaimed series to new heights in A Stolen Season. If you thought you knew Alex McKnight and how far he'll go for the people he cares about . . . think again.On a freezing night in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn't feel so unusual if it weren't the Fourth of July, a boat plows full speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow water of Waishkey Bay. After Alex helps rescue the passengers, he figures he'...

A fast-paced, punch of a book from Edgar and Shamus Award–winning author Steve Hamilton, "a proven master of suspense" (Lee Child).Before the tragic event that made him seek refuge in a remote corner of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight was a Detroit police officer.It's a warm summer night, and Alex is out riding the night shift with his partner Franklin. There's no shortage of trouble to be found on the dark streets of Motown. But on this particula...

"I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I'm ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan." —James PattersonSteve Hamilton's novels have won the mystery world's most prestigious awards and topped bestsellers list everywhere. With North of Nowhere , he returns to Michigan's Upper Peninsula and former Detroit cop Alex McKnight.After a game of poker turns into a professional heist, McKnight finds...

"A proven master of suspense." ―Lee ChildSteve Hamilton's novels starring ex-cop and sometime-PI Alex McKnight have won multiple awards and appeared on bestseller lists nationwide. And when you start reading Winter of the Wolf Moon , you will instantly understand why . . .When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letti...

The Alex McKnight series had already hit bestseller lists and won awards—but this novel took things to a whole new level."Easily Steve Hamilton's best novel so far. . . . Everything is here―his trademark sense of place, vivid, resonant characters, and a plot that will break your heart." ―Lee ChildAlex McKnight isn't a man with many friends, but the few he has know they're never alone in a fix. So when Vinnie LeBlanc asks f...

"I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it." ―Harlan CobenA Cold Day in Paradise won both the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel and launched Steve Hamilton into the top ranks of crime writers.Other than the bullet lodged near his heart, former Detroit cop Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind...

Before he became a private investigator, before he served in the Detroit police, and long before he retreated to the wintry reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight played ball in the minor leagues. He doesn't spend much time thinking about those days, at least not until a former teammate comes looking for him. . . .The man's here to ask a favor. He wants Alex to help him find the woman with whom he had a brief, passionate affair three decades ago. Who is Alex to deny hi...

"I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it." ―Harlan CobenAward-winning author Steve Hamilton's Die A Stranger, an instant New York Times bestseller, further cements his reputation as one of the best in the business.Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the nex...

On a frozen January night, a young man hangs himself in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call Misery Bay. Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won't even hear about the suicide until two months later, when the last person Alex would ever expect comes to him for help.What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless and methodical kille...

"Hypnotic . . . a proven master of suspense moves in a brand new direction―and the result is can't-put-it-down spectacular." ―Lee Child"Too good for words" ( The New York Times Book Review ) . Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel and an Alex Award.Steve Hamilton steps away from his award–winning Alex McKnight series to introduce a unique new character...