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 stil...

On a cold, miserable night in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn't feel so unusual if it wasn't the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waish...

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 vaca...

A plane lands in a deserted Upper Peninsula airstrip one night, and five dead bodies are found the next morning. The evidence suggests that not only are these murders the beginning of something bigger, but that Alex McKnight's friend ...

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year"A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years."—Harlan CobenFrom New York Times-bestselling, two-...

"Steve Hamilton amazes me. Every time I think he's going to zig he zags."—Michael Connelly"A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years."—Harlan CobenFrom New York Times-bests...

Michael is no ordinary young man.  Mute since a childhood tragedy, at age eighteen he discovers that he possesses a skill he would never have expected.  Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or eve...

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 vaca...

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new missio...

On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him 36 hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water...

Before Blood Is the Sky, the Alex McKnight series had already hit bestseller lists and won awards, but this novel took it to a whole new level. Set in the forests of northern Ontario, a land of savage beauty and sudden danger, Blood I...

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 stil...

Steve Hamilton's novels starring ex-cop and sometime-P.I. 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. . .Wh...

DIVPINew York Times /IBestselling Author of IDie a Stranger/IBRBRBefore 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...

One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011 ALEX MCKNIGHT IS BACK in Misery Bay, the long-awaited return of one of crime fiction's most critically acclaimed series by Steve Hamilton.On a frozen January night, a young man loops o...

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 str...

At the age of eight, Michael survives an act of violence so horrific that the local press dubs him "The Miracle Boy." And orphan now, and no longer able to speak, Michael soon discovers the one thing he can do better than an...

The New York Times Bestseller Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing.  Vinnie is a member of the Ojibwa Indian tribe and he just mig...

Award-winning author of the acclaimed Alex McKnight series Steve Hamilton delivers an atmospheric standalone thriller.Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. But tonight he is scared to death.It's been two years since Joe's fianc...

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Ro...

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new missio...

A romantic weekend at an old luxury hotel turns to terror for private detective Alex McKnight and Natalie Reynaud, a Canadian police officer, when they receive an ominous message in their hotel room that hints at a dark Reynaud family...

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 stil...

While enjoying the July 4th fireworks on the edge of Lake Superior on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight and his former partner come to the aid of three men caught in the wreck of an antique wooden boat, a rescue that draws Ale...

When a fire is done, what's left is only half-destroyed. It is charred and brittle. It is obscene. There is nothing so ugly in all the world as what a fire leaves behind, covered in ashes and smoke and a smell you'll think about every...

Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing. Vinnie is an Ojibwa tribal member, a blackjack dealer at the Bay Mills Casino, and he jus...

"I Want My Life Back is not a pretty story--but it's beautifully told and absolutely compelling. The book's cover features a portrait of author Steve Hamilton. You'd guess his age to be somewhere in his late 60's. Guess again. He...

Alex McKnight is in love. Even though he met Natalie Reynaud, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police, under difficult circumstances, they share a common bond of solitude, as well as the same nightmare - they're both cops who bu...

Steve HamiltonBorn and raised in Michigan, he now works for IBM in upstate New York, where he lives with his wife and a son. A Cold Day In Paradise, in addition to winning an Edgar and a Shamus, was the winner of the 1997 St. Martin's...