"Dead Man Running"
Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered.
On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body.
Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares he'll only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight.
Livermore means nothing to McKnight, but it soon becomes clear McKnight means something to Livermore...and that Livermore's capture was only the beginning of an elaborate, twisted plot with McKnight at the center. In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. And his grand finale will cut closer to home than he ever could have imagined.
"Ice Run"
On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body.
Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares he'll only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight.
Livermore means nothing to McKnight, but it soon becomes clear McKnight means something to Livermore...and that Livermore's capture was only the beginning of an elaborate, twisted plot with McKnight at the center. In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. And his grand finale will cut closer to home than he ever could have imagined.
"Ice Run"
"In
a land of hard winters, the hardest of all is the winter that fills you
with false hope." 
It is February in Paradise, Michigan, where a few
days of mild weather will soften you up for three feet of snow in one
night. Down at the Glasgow Inn, Jackie's got the midwinter blues, and he
can't figure out why Alex seems so happy. He doesn't know Alex's big
secret - a woman named Natalie Reynaud, an Ontario Provincial Police
officer who lives across the border in Blind River and is the only good
thing that came out of the nightmare up on Lake Agawaatese.
It's Alex's first real relationship in years. In some
way it's terrifying. But Natalie has her own fears to deal with, and her
own secrets. When they arrange a romantic evening at the old Ojibway
Hotel, Alex is approached by an elderly gentleman he's never seen
before. The man is impeccably dressed, and for some reason he follows
Alex onto the elevator, where he proceeds to strike up a bizarre
conversation.
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| The Ojibway Hotel in Michigan |
Little do they know, this one episode will reignite a
blood feud that has lasted for most of a century. The stakes are higher
than ever, and Alex is right in the middle of it. This is a man who has
gotten beaten up, shot at, and even dragged behind a snowmobile, all
because he's a sucker for a friend in need.
How much farther will he go for love?
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Born
and raised in Detroit, Steve Hamilton graduated from the University of Michigan
where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction.
In 2006, he won the Michigan
Author Award for his outstanding body of work. His novels have won
numerous awards and media acclaim beginning with the very first in the Alex
McKnight series, A Cold Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye
Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an
Unpublished Writer.
Once published, it went on to win the MWA Edgar and the PWA
Shamus Awards for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Anthony and
Barry Awards. His novel The Lock Artist won the 2011 Edgar Award. The awards didn't stop there but he's too modest to crow about
them.
Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with
his wife Julia and their two children.
Even though Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, 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. So he’s more than happy to stay in the little town of Paradise, three hundred miles and half a lifetime away.
When the sergeant invites Alex downstate to have a drink for old times’ sake, it’s an offer he would normally refuse. However, there’s a certain female FBI agent he can’t stop thinking about, so he gets in his truck and he goes back to Detroit. While there, he’s reminded of something about that last case, a seemingly small piece of the puzzle that he never got to share. It’s not something anyone wants to hear, but Alex can’t let go of this gut feeling that they arrested the wrong man.
"Let it Burn"
Even though Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, 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. So he’s more than happy to stay in the little town of Paradise, three hundred miles and half a lifetime away.
Then he gets a call from his old sergeant. It turns out that a young man Alex helped put away will be getting out of prison. That one big case marked the highlight of his career, before his partner was killed, before his marriage fell apart, before he left Detroit, forever. Now that man is about to walk free.
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| Michigan Central Station |
And that the real killer not only got away, but went on to kill again.
And again.
And again.
