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North of Nowhere (Alex McKnight) Kindle Edition
'That summer, it was all about secrets... I already had one bullet inside me. I knew I didn't have room for another.' A superb Alex McKnight novel from award-winning Steve Hamilton
Alex McKnight rarely ventures out from his home these days, even to spend time at his friend Jackie's Glasgow Inn. Even as he lets Jackie force him out one night for a poker game at a stranger's house, Alex is certain it's a bad idea. And when the genial atmosphere rapidly deteriorates, he starts to think maybe he was right. Then three masked, armed robbers burst through the door, and things get a whole lot worse.
Soon Alex's three closest friends are implicated in the robbery, and Alex finds himself the object of hostile attention from the victim. As events spin out of control, it becomes clear that somebody is not telling the truth, and has put them all in terrible danger...
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOrion
- Publication dateAugust 26, 2010
- File size633 KB
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Now, McKnight really has reason to feel sorry for himself. But instead, he goes after the gunmen, along the way swapping sucker punches with Vargas, shaking down his former detective partner (who videotaped the thieves' escape), and discovering that even his friends harbor secrets that could get them all killed.
This fourth McKnight outing (after 2001's The Hunting Wind) is a fine showcase for Hamilton's lithesome prose. The pace is brisk, the episodes often humorous, and the tale brims with an infectious reverence for its natural setting ("God help me, on a summer night when the sun is going down, it is the most beautiful place on earth"). If Hammett moved the detective story from the drawing room into the mean streets, Hamilton has proved that the north woods have their own potential for homicidal intrigue. --J. Kingston Pierce
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“Superb! Hamilton keeps the action fast and furious and manages to keep the reader off balance.” ―Publishers Weekly
“A bracing, sometimes sidesplitting...novel.” ―Booklist
“Hamilton packs plenty of hardscrabble characters and pithy dialogue into a nifty mystery...there's nothing like a bit of Paradise-Michigan, that is.” ―Columbia State
“North of Nowhere has a twisty plot with genuine surprises, but it's the understanding of the people who live in the Upper Peninsula and the love for both the harshness and beauty of the Lake Superior shoreline that make this another good entry in a terrific series.” ―Flint Journal
“A fast-paced book with wonderful characters...Hamilton writes great prose.” ―ReviewTheEvidence.com
“A robust entry...Alex is at his best and the support cast augments the isolated feeling of going north of nowhere that shows why Steve Hamilton is an award-winning author.” ―Internet Bookwatch
From the Inside Flap
"Hamilton['s]...tensile prose...reflects the dramatic, often violent contradictions of people who live on the edge of the world."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Superb!"
--Publishers Weekly
"A brisk, well-plotted tale."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Terrific!"
--Flint Journal
Enjoy These Other Alex Mcknight Mysteries From Edgar Award-Winning Author Steve Hamilton:
The Hunting Wind
Winter of the Wolf Moon
A Cold Day In Paradise
From the Back Cover
"Steve Hamilton writes the kind of stories that [one] can't resist."
--The New York Times Book Review
Steve Hamilton's debut novel A Cold Day In Paradise was the first novel to capture mystery's three most prestigious awards-the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony awards for best first novel. Now North of Nowhere returns to the beautiful and dangerous landscapes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where former Detroit cop Alex McKnight's attempts to leave civilization behind only lead to disaster...
Lying facedown on the floor with a gun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a game of cards turns into a professional heist at the home of local developer Win Vargas. When the dust settles, McKnight is one of police chief Roy Maven's lead suspects. Worse, Vargas' own sense of vigilante justice has targeted the former private eye as well, and the brash millionaire may be responsible for the sudden disappearance of Alex's best friend, Jackie. Now, with officials pointed in the wrong direction and his closest allies either missing or in jail, Alex knows he is the only one who can uncover the truth. But McKnight can't possibly know how dark this conspiracy truly is-or how close to guilt he actually stands...
About the Author
STEVE HAMILTON attended the University of Michigan and won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing. His first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. It went on to win the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel. In 2006, Hamilton won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. He lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and their two children.
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Product details
- ASIN : B0049MPI20
- Publisher : Orion; New Ed edition (August 26, 2010)
- Publication date : August 26, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 633 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 358 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0312983816
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,227,384 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #12,154 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #16,420 in Murder
- #19,410 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Steve Hamilton is the New York Times bestselling author of both the Alex McKnight series and the standalone novel The Lock Artist, currently in film development. He's one of only two authors in history (along with Ross Thomas) to win the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and then to follow that up later in his career with an Edgar for Best Novel. Beyond that, he's either won or been nominated for every other major crime fiction award in America and the UK, and his books are now translated into twenty languages. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing. He currently lives in upstate New York with his wife and their two children. Visit his Web site at www.authorstevehamilton.com.
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With the help of his former partner, Leon Prudell (the lovably nerdy straight arrow who has to be one of the most unlikely private investigators ever created) McKnight ultimately unravels the the how of the scheme--but not before his friend/mentor Jackie winds up in the hands of a pair of lethal Canadian brothers. With a climax that is literally cold and wet and stomach-churningly tense, this is a can't-put-down mystery.
Then, with what used to be called "a sting in the tail" Hamilton adds a painful little twist at the end that is completely unexpected.
Highly recommended.
The story just didn't draw me in the way the others did. It seemed rushed, and the characters were not nearly as well developed as in his previous works. While the ending was a kind of a surprise, I was still glad this story was over.
If you're looking for a good read, check out Hamilton's first 3 novels...all are fantastic. If you've already read them, and enjoyed them as much as I did, then I'd suggest you save yourself [the money] on this one and wait for the paperback.
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そんな時、グラスゴー・インのジャッキーが、ある家で行われるポーカーにアレックスを強引に連れて行く。ゲームのさなか、その家に強盗が入り込んでくる。
そのあとは、友達を守るため、いつものアレックスが戻ってくる。「手を出すな」と言われても、後戻りしないアレックスが。
この強盗事件は意外な方向に進み、いつものように物語に引き込まれて、一気に読み終わってしまった。
このシリーズが好きな人ならば、読んで損はないと思う。





