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What the critics are saying...

“Ingenious…Hamilton unreels   the mystery with amounting   tension many an old pro might   envy.”   
-- Kirkus  

“Combines crisp, clear writing,   wily colorful characters, and an   offbeat locale in an impressive   debut.”   
-- Publishers Weekly  

“[A] brooding, caustic,  
 wellplotted and tightly written   thriller.”   
-- Detroit Free Press  

“[A] brilliant, chilling debut…”  
-- Barnes & Noble.com  

        


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About the Author
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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Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer.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. Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with his wife Julia and their two children.