by SteveHamilton (Author)
Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimetre 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 Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cosy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose's unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. With Rose locked away, McKnight can't understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders - not to mention the signature blood-red rose left on his doorstep. It seems as though Hell might freeze over before McKnight can unravel the cold truth in this town that's anything but Paradise. Hamilton's writing is spare and stylish. He combines wry understated humour with terrifying violence in a brilliantly evoked setting. He will go far.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 18 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0752841483
ISBN 13: 9780752841489
Book Overview: A double award-winning debut thriller - the Edgar and the Shamus Contains all the elements - quality of writing, characters, setting, plot - that could take Hamilton in the direction of Connelly and Crais and on to bestseller lists Great US reviews: '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' New York Times; 'Brooding, caustic, well plotted and tightly written ... grabs you from the very first paragraph' Detroit Free Press; 'Ingenious ... Hamilton unreels the mystery with a mounting tension that many an old pro might envy' Kirkus Reviews