A Cold Day in Paradise

"I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it." ―Harlan Coben

A Cold Day in Paradise won both the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel and launched Steve Hamilton into the top ranks of crime writers.

Other than the bullet lodged near his heart, former Detroit cop Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, the man convicted of the crimes has been locked away for years.

But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cabin in the woods, a murderer with the same unmistakable trademarks appears to be back. McKnight can't understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders. And it seems like it'll be a frozen day in Hell before McKnight can unravel truth from deception in a town that's anything but Paradise.

Readers of gritty, suspenseful prose everywhere have discovered the Alex McKnight novels. A Cold Day in Paradise is where it all begins.

Praise for Steve Hamilton and the Alex McKnight novels

"A proven master of suspense." ―Lee Child

"As original as any writer I've ever read." —Michael Connelly

"Already one of our best writers." ―Laura Lippman

"Whatever he writes, I'll read. Steve Hamilton's that good." —Don Winslow