Kevin F. reviewed on 7/2/2017 + 211 more book reviews

Reading this book is a lot like driving fast on a twisty road with snow and ice, although you personally know that you the reader will arrive safely. Worth the ride.

What the author(s) do with this series: Steve Hamilton started off slow but gets better and better this is part of the series called the Alex McKnight Novels. This paragraph applies to all books in this series. Alex is a former pro baseball player and a former cop. Both of those careers ended before they barely got started. McKnight becomes a very reluctant private investigator and brings a level of expertise not seen in most books.

The author always gives us a tour of Michigan as he does his investigation and invariably it's cold. His description of the weather is almost visceral.

Do you need to read this series in order: YES or you miss out on too much of the back stories.

Triggers: Suicides, homicides and the regular ample supply of violence â Our erstwhile private detective often ends up in the hospital. Many of the crimes investigated are homicides caused by guns, fires, beatings and so on. Child abuse in the past. Cruelty, helplessness

On a frozen January night, a young man hangs himself in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; in a place they call Misery Bay. Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won't even hear about the suicide until two months later, when the last person Alex would ever expect comes to him for help. What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless and methodical killer. McKnight knows all about evil. Mobsters, drug dealers, hit menâhe's seen them all, and they've taken away almost everything he's ever loved. But none of them could have ever prepared him for the darkness he's about to face.

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