A Scandal of the Particular by Steve Hamilton

A Scandal of the Particular by Steve Hamilton

HYMAN KAZAN HAS REGRETS. We all do. A struggling legal career, an unfulfilled, passionate girlfriend. But the situation is about to get worse, much worse, when the body of a young man from Scotland is found outside of a safe injection site in downtown Vancouver. The dark, rainy streets of the Lower Mainland are about to explode when it is discovered that this corpse and Kazan's girlfriend shared the same lover, Judge Craig Donald Smith. As his world begins to crumble, Kazan finds himself with one last chance to find truth and happiness. Then he finds himself alone with his demons and a loaded handgun, in a struggle to find justice, ethics, and integrity. But does he have the courage?

A Cold Day in Paradise, STEVE HAMILTON's first novel, received the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Before becoming a USA Today Bestseller and winning both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel, Martin's Publishing had a Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. The Lock Artist was declared a New York Times Notable Book, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and then went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel, making Steve Hamilton only the second author (after Ross Thomas) to win the Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. He received the coveted Hopwood Award for writing at the University of Michigan, and he now resides in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and two children.