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Title: Blood Is the Sky: An Alex McKnight Mystery by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0-312-30115-4 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, Fast Paced and witty
Comment: Ex Detective Alex McKnight teams up with his Indian Friend Vinnie to investigate the disappearance of Vinnie's Brother, whom has not returned home from a hunting trip.
The disappearance leads them both to the Canadian Mountains where they have to face more than moose and bears.
This book was a non-stop, fast paced , witty read which I managed to read in one day.
I thoroughly recommend this book to you all, and personally I want to hunt down all of this Edgar Award winning authors previous books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb characters in a strong series!
Comment: Steve Hamilton's fifth Alex McKnight novel, "Blood Is the Sky" is attention getting and packed with tension.
It begins metaphorically as Alex rebuilds his friendship with neighbor Vinnie Red Sky LeBlanc as they reconstruct a cabin lost to arson.
Soon they learn that Vinnie's parolee brother Tom is overdue from a hunting trip to Canada. Tom used Vinnie's ID to cross the border for a lucrative guide's fee...a parole violation and not a bright idea.
The ensuing search for the party has the visceral fear of "Deliverance."
The unspoiled beauty of the Canadian wilds turns into a horrifying crime scene. McKnight and Vinnie's relentless pursuit of the perps leads to many disquieting questions...with no easy answers.
Full of twists and turns, the plot flow is captivating. McKnight is a remarkable noir hero whose fervent loyalty to his friends always gets him involved in their problems...an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances.
Steve Hamilton gets better and better. "Blood Is the Sky" both resolves and raises issues for McKnight...maybe even romance.
Put this on your most wanted list.
Rating: 5
Summary: A-1
Comment: This is the best mystery written yet by Steve Hamilton, and his
writing skills have to be experienced to be believed.
If a reader can read his description of being lost in the north
of Canada, while alone, and not feel some of the nervousinous
of being lost themselves, then such reader must not be concentrating on the exposition.
Here, hero Alex McKnight, a semi-retired Detroit cop who has sought the refuge of a lonely existence up in the U.P., is drawn into helping his equally-reclusive neighbor, Vinnie, a member of the local Ojibwa tribe. Vinnie's brother hasn't returned from guiding a hunting party into the wilds of Ontario,
and the family is worried. Vinnie especially so because he has
loaned his ID to the brother because his brother is a convicted
felon and would get into serious trouble for leaving Michigan
to go into Canada.
Vinnie finally explains to Alex why he did such a stupid thing,
but that only encourages Alex to "sign up" and agree to help
Vinnie look for the missing group.
So off they go, driving along the shore of Lake Superior, into
the northern wilds of Ontario, and they keep driving until they
run out of road and have to go off-road to a desolate lake, where they meet a group in the process of closing up their lodge. All hunters have already left, and the lodge staff is getting ready to return home for the winter, perhaps for good.
Alex and Vinnie have to explore further, and they run into Detroit mobsters, unhelpful Indians, a couple of bar brawlers,
as well as an unlikely team of Ontario Provincial Police constables.
Hamilton's descriptions of the drive along Lake Superior, the
isolated hunting lodge, the encounters with moose and black bear, the enforced overnight stay in the town of Wawa (where Alex remarks that Wawa is not the kind of town a guy would want to spend a vacation in), is so on-the-mark, a perceptive reader
will feel the cold, damp wind in his face and hear the un-Godly
growls of large carnivores in the dark of the night as he follows McKnight in his search for the truth.
Author Hamilton's powers of description show such intimacy with
the features and characteristics of the places and lives in desolate areas of N. Ontario, he has to have experienced them.
And even at that, only the best writer could convey a reader to those same places and same feelings.
Those isolated places of the North are examples of a different
level of civilization from what most of us experience, and for the reader willing to live that life, even briefly, this book is
a must.
Plus, after years of living alone with his thoughts and worries
in Paradise, Michigan, he meets an eye-catching OPP Constable he wishes he could have met under better circumstances, and Alex can't quite get her out of his mind. Even as his legal
situation deteriorates, and he and Vinnie end up in a holding cell at the OPP detachment in Hearst, Ontario, Alex keeps wondering just what kind of woman the distant Constable is.
And Alex even gets another unexpected benefit when Vinnie's mother "adopts" him into her Ojibwa family, as Alex tries his
hardest to understand and explain what happened to Vinnie's brother in the northern wilds.
Hamilton is also so good at his descriptions of his subjects' feelings, and his powers of observation, many readers will get
tired during all of Alex's numerous trips up and down the highway,
to such places as Detroit, Sault St.Marie, Wawa, Hearst,
Sudbury, Timmons, and more, because we feel like we are riding
along with him, fighting fatigue and pain with nothing but coffee and the knowledge that time is running against us.
Join the ride and fight and go along with Alex McKnight on this
new exciting and dangerous adventure.
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Title: North of Nowhere : An Alex McKnight Novel by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312983816 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hunting Wind : An Alex McKnight Mystery by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312980264 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger ISBN: 0743445864 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Winter of the Wolf Moon by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312974752 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Novel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0743245423 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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