Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery [Paperback]

Steve Hamilton's novels starring ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight have won multiple awards and appeared on bestseller lists nationwide. And when you start readingWinter of the Wolf Moon,you will instantly understand why. . .

When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a host of suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa reservation to the Canadian border and deep into the silent woods, someone is out to killand McKnight is heading right into the line of fire.

STEVE HAMILTON's first Alex McKnight novel,A Cold Day in Paradise,won both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His stand-alone novel,The Lock Artist,was named aNew York TimesNotable Crime Book, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and 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 and Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, and now lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and their two children.

Already one of our best writers. Laura Lippman

I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it. Hamilton has been flying under the radar with his Alex McKnight series for too long. Harlan Coben

A proven master of suspense. Lee Child

I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I'm ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan. James Patterson

Hamilton understands the border mentality, and his tensile prose--with its shifting images of heat and cold, light l#Š