Author(s): Steve Hamilton

Fiction

A superb new Alex McKnight novel from Edgar award-winning author, Steve Hamilton. It is February in Paradise, Michigan, and for the first time since moving there, Alex is taking a hard look at his life, and realising just how much he's been hiding from. This is what happens when a middle-aged solitary guy falls in love. The woman is Natalie Reynaud, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police whose partner has recently been killed. As far as the OPP are concerned, Natalie is responsible for her partner's death. She needs a break - from the past as well as the present. Alex and Natalie spend a romantic weekend in a hotel in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. But just as everything seems to be going wonderfully, they are disturbed by someone who knows all about Natalie, and about the previous generations of her family. An old blood fraud is reignited, one that goes back more than forty years to a dark episode buried in her family's past - events whose repercussions still drive men to kill each other. As much as Natalie doesn't want Alex to get involved, there's no way he can let her face this danger alone. This is a man who has been beaten up, shot at, and even been dragged behind a snow-mobile, all because he's a sucker for a friend in need. How much further would he go for a woman he loves?