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Title: A Cold Day in Paradise (Alex McKnight Mysteries (Paperback)) by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0-312-96919-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.02 (50 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great new author...great P. I.
Comment: Steve Hamilton comes at you from several different directions in his first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise. That's Paradise, Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior in the upper peninsula. The setting and local color are terrific. Alex McKnight, ex-minor league baseball player, ex-Detroit cop with a bullet still lodged in his chest and now a private investigator, works his way through two murders, a missing person case and a monster killer from his past that leave you guessing until the very end of the book. Good characters. Tight plot. A real page-turner. This is a book you won't be able to put down. Steve Hamilton's got a real winning combination here.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant first novel....
Comment: and winner of the Edgar Award, A COLD DAY N PARADISE, is truly outstanding in it's characters and story line. It was a book recommended to me by Amazon and they were right....I couldn't read it fast enough. It immediately gets into the story wih Alex McKnight as the retired cop turned private eye. The way in which the plot is developed, the introduction of the characters, the characters themselves and the insertions of McKnight remembering his past make a marvelous, intriguing package - tied together very, very expertly at the shocking and truly amazing ending. I have already puchased "WINTER OF THE WOLF MOON" , Hamilton's second novel and I will bet "dollars to donuts" that it will be just as suberbly written and even more suspenseful than the first. If you like intrigue, suspense,surprises, excellent character and plot development and an answer to the mystery that is at your fingertips but just out of your reach- read this: "A COLD DAY IN PARADISE'; and no matter how warm the summer weather is, keep a blanket handy because besides everything else this novel contains, it is chilling! Have a wonderful read!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Big Disappointment
Comment: I wanted to like this novel---I really, really did, because it had apparently received rave reviews and the beginning of the book was promising. But if you're an avid reader like me who is always looking for something new and exciting, you'll be as disappointed in this book as I was. The characters were flat, unimaginative and two-dimensional. The writing was about as exciting as the back of a cereal box. The plot was strange and unbelievable. Sometimes a book with these flaws can be saved by stellar prose, but that wasn't the case with this novel. The writing was blunt, plain and unevocative. Imagine someone without much personality---say an insurance salesman or someone who fixes air conditioners for a living---sitting you down and telling you a story about four or five uninteresting people. That's the level of excitement that this book generated for me. If you want well-developed characters, poetic prose and interesting plots, look elsewhere. This was a halfway decent effort from a first-time writer, but I'm stunned and amazed that so much praise has been heaped upon such an average effort.
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Title: Winter of the Wolf Moon (An Alex McKnight Novel) 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: The Hunting Wind: An Alex McKnight Mystery (An Alex McKnight Novel) by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312980264 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: North of Nowhere : An Alex McKnight Novel (An Alex McKnight Novel) by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312983816 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 18 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Is the Sky: An Alex McKnight Mystery by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312301154 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Ice Run : An Alex McKnight Novel (Alex McKnight, 6) by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312301219 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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