Steve hamilton author wikipedia

Born on 10th January, in Detroit, Michigan and raised there, Steve Hamilton, one of the most acclaimed author of a number of mystery books and a holder of the prestigious Hopwood Award is known to have graduated from the University of Michigan. Well, Currently, staying in Upstate New York together with his wife Julia and their 2 children, Antonia and Nicholas G, Steve Hamilton also works full time with the IBM company while working partly on his writing career mainly after his family has gone to sleep.

But that said, Steve Hamilton, an acclaimed writer and also currently in film development, is actually one of the only two writers in history together with Ross Thomas to have won the Edgar award for the Best First Novel and to follow that with an Edgar for the Best novel.

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In fact, the Alex MCKnight series has 2 New York times notable books and even though his accolades did not stop there, Steve Hamilton is too modest to crow and brag about them. Steve has therefore continued with this passion in writing, producing some very exemplary and notable works and which has recently seen him put two tittles on the New York times best seller list, just like in the year when he won the Michigan author award for his outstanding body of work.

Not to mention the fact that it is his lock artist work that made history in publishing after winning the an Edgar award for the Best Novel In America and the CWA Steel Dagger award for the Best thriller in the United Kingdom as well as the Alex award which is usually presented by the American Library Association to those books which have successfully crossed over from the adult market to the young readers.

The Alex Macknight series comprising of A cold day in paradise book and produced in the year is surely an interesting read, an ingenious, brilliant, a chilling and a tightly written thriller. In A cold day in Paradise, a bullet has been lodged near the heart of Alex MacKnight, a former Detroit cop, for almost 14 years now and the cop who happened to have been his partner then, is 14 years dead.

While Rose, the borderline psycho who apparently shot both of them, has been locked up in the state penitentiary since he was caught a year after the incidence. Surprisingly, in a small town of paradise in Michigan, where Alex traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a man named Rose and a murderer with unmistakable trademarks appears to be back and is thus stalking Alex McKnight.

With the strong belief that Rose is still locked away, Alex only wonders who else could be imitating the characters and details of the old murders. Incidentally, on return to his cabin in the woods one night, Alex bumps on a blood red rose and a calling card right at his doorstep.