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Steve Hamilton was born and raised in the Detroit area. He now lives in upstate New York with his wife and children. His first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise won the 1997 SMP/ PWA Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, the 1999 Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. His website is http://www.authorstevehamilton.com.
North of Nowhere
Summer has finally arrived in Paradise, Michigan, but Alex McKnight doesn't seem to notice the change in the weather. He's been retreating into own his private world the past few months and now he barely leaves his cabin except to go have his meals in the nearby Glasgow Inn. The Inn's proprietor, Jackie, is more and more concerned with Alex's state, and the last straw comes as he watches Alex morosely counting up his "failures" on the eve of his 49th birthday --- his marriage, his baseball career, his stint in the Detroit police. He offers his friend an ultimatum: "Either I take you to the airport and put your ass on a plane to Moosehide or you play poker with me tonight." The other poker players are men Alex hardly knows, in a posh house near the water. In the middle of the game, masked robbers invade the premises, hold the players at gunpoint and proceed to rob the homeowner. Alex is roused to action and so is his former detective partner, Leon Prudell. Working first against one another and later together, they discover that the crime is far more complex than a simple robbery. There is murder and greed and revenge involved, and a wild chase on the waters of Lake Superior before Alex is forced to realize that there is no retreat from life. And that maybe this is a good thing.
Steve Hamilton's Summer Reading List
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
Dennis Lehane tells me he's read this book three times, and that it is McCarthy's best.
Resolution
by Denise Mina
The third book in the trilogy, this is Scottish hardboiled at its darkest (and best).
Hell to Pay
by George P. Pelecanos
Anything Pelecanos writes is an automatic buy in hardcover. He writes so well, it breaks your heart.
Anchoress of Shere
by Paul L. Moorcraft
A war correspondent's first novel, about a deranged priest and a woman who is walled up forever in a church.
Sleep with the Fishes
by Brian M. Wiprud
Wiprud is one of the funniest and most original crime writers in the business.
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