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Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton
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 thirty-six hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call Misery Bay. Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won t even hear about the suicide until another cold night, two months later and 250 miles away, when the door to the Glasgow Inn opens and the last person Alex would ever expect to see comes walking in to ask for his help. What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge and a race against time to catch a ruthless killer. McKnight knows all about evil, of course, having faced down a madman who killed his partner and left a bullet next to his heart. Mobsters, drug dealers, hit men - he s seen them all, and they ve taken away almost everything he s ever loved. But none of them could have prepared him for the darkness he s about to face.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 and winning both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His standalone novel The Lock Artist was named a New York Times Notable Book, was given an Alex Award by 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 Edgars for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, and now he lives in Cottekill, New York with his wife and their two children.
SKU | Unavailable |
ISBN 13 | 9780312380434 |
ISBN 10 | 0312380437 |
Title | Misery Bay |
Author | Steve Hamilton |
Series | Alex Mcknight |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding Type | Hardback |
Publisher | Minotaur Books |
Year published | 2011-06-07 |
Number of pages | 294 |
Prizes | Winner of Michigan Notable Books 2012 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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