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    Winter of the Wolf Moon
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    Winter of the Wolf Moon
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    Winter of the Wolf Moon

    Written by Steve Hamilton

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

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    About this audiobook

    Ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter winter of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young Ojibwa woman, asks him for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. McKnight suspects vicious, hockey-playing Lonnie Bruckman of abducting the woman, but his search for her brings on more suspects, bruising encounters and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snow storms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa reservation to the Canadian border and deep into the silent woods, someone is out to kill - and McKnight is driving right into the line of fire…

    "An excellent mystery…The kind of book you climb inside and, when you're forced to leave, you wish you could stay a little longer." -- Booklist

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 2010
    ISBN9781441834416
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    Winter of the Wolf Moon
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    Steve Hamilton

    Steve Hamilton was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated from the University of Michigan where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction. In 2006, he won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. His novels have won numerous awards and media acclaim beginning with the very first in the Alex McKnight series, A Cold Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer. Once published, it went on to win the MWA Edgar and the PWA Shamus Awards for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Anthony and Barry Awards. His book The Lock Artist is the winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with his wife Julia and their two children.

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    • 4/5
      The reader's interest is engaged at all times with the interesting characters, Alex's actions and reactions, and the descriptive passages. What I needed is a more coherent plot that doesn't fall flat at the end. I'm looking forward to Steve Hamilton's future efforts. He is too good a writer to disappoint us
    • 3/5
      Another solid effort from Hamilton.
    • 4/5
      Alex McNight, a Detroit ex-cop, lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where he tries to keep a peaceful existence and low profile. His Native American buddy encourages him to fill in as a goalie on his hockey team with the reasoning that it would help keep him in shape and occupy some of his time. Before Alex knows it, a hockey opponent's girlfriend is asking for his assistance, and he feels bound to help.I like Alex, but less "f-bombs" would make for a better read. It is so not necessary! Aside from that, the plot was good, and I love reading about my home state of Michigan. There were a few very unrealistic events, but still a good read. I've got the next two ready on my iPod. They are perfect for road trips!Originally posted on: Thoughts of Joy
    • 4/5
      The novel opens 3 months after the previous book with Vinnie (the Ojibwa friend of Alex) convincing him to play some hokey. The game takes a weird turn and before Alex had realized what is going on, there is a woman at his door asking him for help. He allows her to stay in one of his cabins and in the morning she is missing. And despite not wanting to be a PI, Alex just need to find her. The second novel in the series is set in the middle of the Michigan's Upper Peninsula winter - in the cold and the snow. And they become a major part of the story - not as a setting but more as another character. So does Canada and the bridge between USA and Canada - they are integral not just to the story but to the life of everyone living there. And Prudell is back (remember the old PI?) and the local and county police. So are Jackie and his bar. It is a community - with its wrinkles and warts. Somewhere along the way a house looses a wall as well but that is just an accident of course.As for the case? Alex get beaten a lot, almost qualifies for the regular's discount in the hospital, some very bad guys show up and somewhere along the way, Alex even get arrested for a bit. The truth emerges, not before things get a lot more complicated of course. Another great entry into the series. And even though it is June in Arizona, it made me feel cold - Hamilton is that good in his craft.
    • 5/5
      I don't live in Michigan, am not a hockey fan, have never ridden on a snow mobile, and have never met an Ojibway Indian but I loved this book. It is fast paced enough that I didn't even think about how it was going to end. Sometimes when I enjoy an author's first book the second book turns out to be a disappointment but not this time.
    • 4/5
      This is a great book to read or listen to during the heat of summer. It begins with a hockey game and has lots of snowmobile action, not to mention meeting up with the bad guys on a sub-zero January night in a fishing hut on Lake Superior. You know, the kind with the hole in the ice where things that fall in usually don't make it out? This is the second book in the series but it can be read independently because Alex reminds the reader multiple times that he has a bullet lodged in his chest near his heart from a shootout in Detroit. Alex is a bumbling and unwilling private investigator now, though he'd really rather just rent his cabins in Paradise (yes, there is such a town in Upper Michigan) and hang out at his buddy's bar. That's where he meets the Ojibwe woman that begs him to help her get away from her boyfriend whom Alex had met with unhappy results during the hockey game that started the book. This is a fun and fast-paced series that I will continue with.
    • 4/5
      Well done mystery in the Upper Peninsula. Good characters, some moments of humor, but gritty enough for me.
    • 2/5
      Not overly thrilled with this installment. No one is quite tough enough to withstand so much physical punishment. McKnight was too lucky. I liked the city police chief and McKnight's private eye partner. But the story was just too unlikely, and nothing much besides the cold taking advantage of the UP setting.
    • 4/5
      It's a very fast read. More action than in the first book and Alex is more actively involved in the events though he still receives the brunt of any beatings going on, rather than giving them. The mystery of the story was okay too... it isn't the most challenging storyline ever, but it was engaging and mostly realistic (though Alex has very good recuperative powers for an old guy). I'll read the next in the series 'cause I like the characters.
    • 4/5
      This second book in the Alex McNight series was very fast paced and a good read. The climate in the U.P. of Michigan is a major factor and ups the "chill" factor in a pretty suspenseful story. There are some elements of humor not present in the first book, but Alex is still fighting with demons and self-doubt. I'll read the next and am interested to see if he grows as a character.