Winter of the Wolf Moon An Alex McKnight Mystery

by Hamilton, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781250025760
• ISBN10: 1250025761
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-13
• Publisher: Minotaur Books

Summary

A new edition of the second novel in Steve Hamilton's awardwinning and bestselling series Ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter winter of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young Ojibwa woman asks him for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning.McKnight suspects vicious, hockey-playing Lonnie Bruckman of abducting the woman, but his search for her brings on more suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa reservation to the Canadian border and deep into the silent woods, someone is out to kill - and McKnight is driving right into the line of fire."Hamilton understands the border mentality, and his tensile prose - with its shifting images of heat and cold, light, and dark - reflects the dramatic, often violent contradictions of people who live on the edge of the world. - The New" York Times Book Review

Author Biography

STEVE HAMILTON’s first Alex McKnight novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His stand-alone novel, The Lock Artist, was named a New York Times Notable Crime Book, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and then went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel, making him only the second author (after Ross Thomas) to win Edgars for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, and now lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and their two children.

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“Already one of our best writers.”—Laura Lippman

“I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it. Hamilton has been flying under the radar with his Alex McKnight series for too long.”—Harlan Coben

“A proven master of suspense.”—Lee Child

“I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I’m ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan.”—James Patterson

“Hamilton understands the border mentality, and his tensile prose—with its shifting images of heat and cold, light and dark—reflects the dramatic, often violent contradictions of people who live on the edge of the world.”—The New York Times Book Review