Steve Hamilton

"Hace un tiempo me llamaron el Chico Milagro. Después, el Mudo de Milford. El Chaval de Oro. El Joven Fantasma. El Chico. El Especialista. El Artista de las Cajas. Todo eso y más. Pero tú puedes llamarme Mike".Marcado por la tragedia cuando era un niño, Michael no es un adolescente muy comun: lleva mas de diez años sin decir una sola palabra, y, ademas, descubre que tiene un don muy especial: es capaz de abrir cualquier cerradura, cerrojo, combinacion o caja fuerte que se proponga.Pero esa habilidad no tardara en llegar a oidos de unos mafiosos que le chantajearan con la vida de Amelia, la chica de la que se ha enamorado, para utilizarle en sus golpes. Se vera envuelto asi, sin pretenderlo, en una espiral de violencia que lo convertira en un artista del robo, un mito. Y la unica forma que tendra de escapar de este infierno sera una jugada desesperada en la que arriesgara mas que su vida...Steve Hamilton gano en 2011 el prestigioso premio EDGAR de novela negra y misterio con esta historia en la que nos presenta un personaje unico, maravilloso, muy distinto a cualquiera que hayamos visto anteriormente en la ficcion criminal.Hipnotica. Un maestro del suspense... El resultado es un no-lo-puedo-dejar-de-leer espectacular.Lee ChildDemasiado bueno para explicarlo con palabras.New York Times

Half a lifetime ago, Alex McKnight was a young cop in Detroit. Now he's an occasional private eye up in Paradise, Michigan, and trying hard to put the past behind him. Then he gets the call that every cop dreads: a killer he helped put behind bars is getting released, and he might just have payback on his mind. Suddenly the years fall away, and in his mind Alex is back in that hot summer in Detroit, hunting the brutal murderer of a young woman. The problem is, something about the case no longer makes sense, and Alex feels compelled to retrace the steps that led to the arrest and conviction of Darryl King. But it's not just the case that looks different: returning to Detroit, Alex finds a city that is almost unrecognizeable from the one he left, a city that is quite literally dying on its feet, where crime and decay hold sway, and law and order are in retreat. And as Alex searches for the truth among the shadows of the past, he discovers a story more shocking than the one he thought he knew and a danger more threatening than an ex-con looking for revenge.

El ex policía Alex McKnight soporta como puede los duros inviernos de Michigan, al calor del fuego, resguardado en su cabaña de madera. Cuando Dorothy Parrish, una joven de la tribu ojibwa, le pide cobijo y que la proteja de su violento novio, McKnight acepta. La chica desa-parece a la mañana siguiente y Alex sospecha que la han secuestrado, pero lo cierto es que hay una compleja red de intereses detras de todo esto. Las insoportables tormentas de nieve son el telon de fondo de este enigma. Desde el misterioso mundo de la reserva ojibwa hasta la frontera canadiense, y adentrandose en lo mas profundo del bosque, alguien acecha para matar. Y McKnight va directo hacia la linea de fuego.

El ex policía Alex McKnight soporta como puede los duros inviernos de Michigan, al calor del fuego, resguardado en su cabaña de madera. Cuando Dorothy Parrish, una joven de la tribu ojibwa, le pide cobijo y que la proteja de su violento novio, McKnight acepta. La chica desa-parece a la mañana siguiente y Alex sospecha que la han secuestrado, pero lo cierto es que hay una compleja red de intereses detras de todo esto. Las insoportables tormentas de nieve son el telon de fondo de este enigma. Desde el misterioso mundo de la reserva ojibwa hasta la frontera canadiense, y adentrandose en lo mas profundo del bosque, alguien acecha para matar. Y McKnight va directo hacia la linea de fuego

¿Qué puede hacer un investigador cuando el principal sospechoso se encuentra entre rejas? ''Sangre bajo cero'' es el brillante debut de Steve Hamilton en el género negro. Alex McKnight lleva catorce años viviendo con el miedo en la sangre, en forma de bala a menos de un centimetro del corazon. Maximilian Rose, el psicopata que lo hirio y que mato a su compañero cuando estaban en la policia, acabo en prision. McKnight, por su parte, vive tranquilo en un pequeño pueblo llamado Paradise... Hasta que el asesinato de un corredor de apuestas hace saltar las alarmas otra vez. Rose sigue en la carcel, pero el crimen lleva su sello inconfundible. Y McKnight comienza a sentir su aliento en la nuca, en un pueblo que empieza a parecerse a cualquier cosa excepto a un paraiso.

Alex McKnight lleva catorce años viviendo con el miedo en la sangre, en forma de bala a menos de un centímetro del corazón. Maximilian Rose, el psicópata que lo hirió y que mató a su compañero cuando estaban en la policia, acabo en prision. McKnight, por su parte, vive tranquilo en un pequeño pueblo llamado Paradise... Hasta que el asesinato de un corredor de apuestas hace saltar las alarmas otra vez. Rose sigue en la carcel, pero el crimen lleva su sello inconfundible. Y McKnight empieza a sentir su aliento en la nuca, en un pueblo que empieza a parecerse a cualquier cosa excepto a un paraiso.

PARA SOBREVIVIR, A VECES ESTÁS OBLIGADO A MATAR. Nick Mason salió de la cárcel gracias a Darius Cole, jefe del crimen organizado de Chicago. El alto precio que tuvo que pagar por su libertad fue convertirse en un asesino profesional a las ordenes de Cole. Ahora esta atrapado y debe aceptar una mision que parece imposible: infiltrarse en un programa secreto de proteccion de testigos y matar a los tres hombres que enviaron a Cole a prision.

A murder from the past; the murderer in prison - so how come its starting all over again?Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimetre from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partners death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cosy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Roses unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. With Rose locked away, McKnight cant understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders - not to mention the signature blood-red rose left on his doorstep. It seems as though Hell will freeze over before McKnight can unravel the cold truth in this town thats anything but Paradise.

In the hunt for a missing person, Alex McKnight is stranded in the wilds of Ontario. But hes not alone...It is October in Paradise, Michigan, and Alex McKnight is rebuilding one of his cabins with help from his neighbour Vinnie LeBlanc. Theyre interrupted when Vinnie is called away to deal with a family emergency: his brother, Tom, has not returned from a hunting trip to Canada. He is already four days overdue. Alex and Vinnie decide to retrace Toms steps, but when they arrive at the lodge, they are told that the men had already been flown back from the outpost, and had promptly left to return to Michigan. But something is not right. Alex discovers a terrible secret and now hes miles away from civilisation, with no food and no weapons. And theres someone out there who does not want him to make it back alive.

P.I. Alex McKnight's romantic weekend with Natalie Reynaud turns into an investigation of a mysterious note and a terrible family secret in this sixth mystery of the Edgar Award-winning author's seri

Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamiltons bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy hes ever encountered.On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when hes certain hed left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body.Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but hes never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares hell only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight.Livermore means nothing to McKnight, but it soon becomes clear McKnight means something to Livermore...and that Livermores capture was only the beginning of an elaborate, twisted plot with McKnight at the center. In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. And his grand finale will cut closer to home than he ever could have imagined.

Nick Mason vit toujours sous la coupe de Darius Cole incarcéré à vie pour meurtre et qui vient d’obtenir un second procès au terme duquel il pourrait bien recouvrer la liberté. Mais trois de ses anci

Prize-winning crime author Steve Hamiltons hugely commercial mainstream breakout tells the extraordinary story of a safe-cracker trying to unlock the key to his past.Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The Miracle Boy on account of how he survived the terrible incident that took his parents. But although his escape was miraculous, it left him unable to speak. Taunted as a freak, school becomes a fresh nightmare, until Michael discovers he has a special talent that makes people sit up and take notice: he can open locks. But a teenage prank, breaking into the house of a rival schools quarterback, lands him in hot water, and despite his best intentions, Michael soon finds himself on a downward slope that ends with expert instruction on how to open safes. And unless he agrees to put his newfound skills to use, the mob are going to kill the father of the girl he now loves. So begins an extraordinary life of crime - at once terrifying and exhilarating - while all the while, Michael plots how to turn the tables on his employer, win back Amelia, and find the key to unlocking his traumatic childhood memories.