Alex McKnight Series by Steve Hamilton

Alex McKnight, former Detroit cop, now Paradise, Michigan private investigator renting cabins built by his late father, on the shore of Lake Superior.

About the Author
Steve Hamilton’s first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest before becoming a USA Today bestseller & winning both an Edgar & a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His stand-alone novel The Lock Artist was named a NY Times Notable Crime Book, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association, & then went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel, making him only the second author (after Ross Thomas) to win Edgars for both Best First Novel & Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, & now lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife & their two children.

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A Cold Day in Paradise (1998)
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Read by Nick Sullivan; UAB. Alex McKnight #1
Chivers / BlackStone Audio

– 1997 Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Best First Private Eye Novel Award
– 1999 Anthony Best First Novel Award Finalist
– 1999 Barry Best First Novel Award Finalist
– 1999 Edgar Best First Novel Award
– 1999 Shamus Best First Novel Award

AudioBookStore Edition (UnABridged)
https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/a-cold-day-in-paradise.aspx
7.5 hours
Released: October 2000
ISBN: 9781602832404

1997’s Best First Private Eye Novel winner was a splendidly evocative work by IBM employee Steve Hamilton, which takes just about every cliché in the field & turns it inside out. Yes, Alex McKnight was an athlete in his youth–but a minor league baseball player, not a top pro forced out by injury. & yes, he was a cop in Detroit before he moved up to the town of Paradise on the shores of Lake Superior–but even this overused genre icon is made believable by the details of a particularly bloody shootout. In Paradise, Alex runs a hunting camp built by his late father & only drifts into private investigations because of two friends, a persuasive lawyer & a local millionaire with a gambling problem who needs his help. When two bookmakers are murdered & the millionaire disappears, all the signs point to the psychopath who killed McKnight’s partner & left a slug near Alex’s heart 14 years before. The only problem is that this man has definitely, positively been in prison ever since. You might figure out the plot twists a page or two before McKnight does, but don’t bet the farm on it. & the deep layer of details that Hamilton provides about life in this bleak part of the world add to the book’s many pleasures. — Dick Adler

Hamilton combines clear, crisp writing, wily, colorful characters & an offbeat locale (Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) in an impressive debut. Alex McKnight is a retired Detroit cop living in Paradise, Mich., on disability with a bullet next to his heart. He rents cabins to hunters & has recently taken out a private-detective license at the suggestion of Lane Uttley, a local lawyer. The book begins fast, with a lot of background deftly woven into the narrative. At a local bar, the lawyer’s former investigator accuses Alex of stealing his business. Later, Edwin Fulton, the scion of a wealthy Detroit family & a compulsive gambler, calls Alex from a nearby motel where he has found the murdered body of his bookie. After Edwin’s strong-willed mother hires Alex to protect the family, another local bookie is murdered & Edwin disappears, prompting Alex & the lawyer to start a search of their own. Meanwhile, Alex receives letters & calls that appear to be from the Detroit man who shot him & whom the then-cop had helped send to prison for life without parole 14 years ago. Hamilton cleverly joins the plots, leaving but one disappointment: how long it takes Alex to learn to place his trust in others with care. — Publishers Weekly

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