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Summary: A Cold Day = One Hot Book!
Review: This book was very interesting. I couldn't put the book down. Have you ever had a book that you couldn't get your hands off of? Well, A Cold Day In Paradise holds you in suspense until you finish it. It definately is a page turner with another murder just waiting to happen. The best part about this book was that I couldn't guess what would happen next!
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Summary: A Fine Beginning
Review: This first of Steve Hamilton's Alex McKnight series is a tight, well-done book. There's great emotional truth to all the characters, and Hamilton exercises restraint in his hero's musings, as well as in the overall portrayal of a man haunted by his perceived failures. Nothing is predictable and all the characters are fully-drawn, particularly the mad and pathetic Rose. In one brief climactic confrontation between McKnight and Rose, the frustration and anger of a rational mind coming up hard against an irrational one has powerful resonance. Anyone who's ever tried to reason with someone unreasonable will sympathize with McKnight's helplessness and outrage at being unable to communicate on any "normal" level.Filled with surprising twists, a lot of tension, and a splendid depiction of life in a cold zone, this is a well-crafted book with a likeable, very human cast. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent debut
Review: This is the first novel in a series. I agree with the previous reader's threads. The writing is interesting and engaged, and the story is gripping and not farfetched. Maybe the biggest compliment I have for it is that I read it in one day. Couldn't put it down. I recommend it to all detective fiction fans.
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Summary: This Book Is Awesome
Review: This will win the Edgar Award for the best first novel for an american author.... Trust me!!! This book is the greatest !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Shamus and Edgar Award Winner? Very disappointing!
Review: Too much hype for a disappointing novel! Sappy dialogue, virtually no character development, and a hero who can't decide if he's Dirty Harry or Pee Wee Herman characterize this "award winner." The ending is the major let down. After an interesting, but not unforeseeable plot twist, the story just ends -- no resolution, no follow up -- it just leaves you hanging. Steve Hamilton apparently ran out of ideas, reached his word quota, or was saving up for a sequel. You should "save up" your money!
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Summary: Recommended!
Review: Very enjoyable mystery featuring an ex-cop, ex-baseball player, current private investigator named Alex McKnight. He retired from the force after he was nearly killed by a maniac named Maximilian Rose. When two bookies in his small town are found murdered, all the signs point to Rose as the killer. But that is impossible -- the prison swears he's still in his cell and will be for the rest of his life. So who is leaving spooky notes on Alex's door, saying things only Alex and Rose know about? I was totally surprised by the ending (but part of that might be because I was busy for a week and was only reading it a few pages at a time). Am looking forward to the next book in the series (if there ever is one!).
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Summary: NERVOUS MAKING
Review: What brought on my nerves was Alex McKnight. I didn't know if the hero was going to make it to the end and be able to tell us whodunnit. I agree with the reader from Berlin who puts it so well. Alex teeters in and out of reality, obsessions, compulsions and never sleeps. This last reminds me of P. Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, but she never bathes either, and Alex is faithful to long hot showers, Thank God. He certainly doesn't inspire much confidence. The scene with P.I. Prudmore displaying Alex's lack of sleuthing ability is worth the price of the book. I liked everything but how he handled the plot. When Alex is obsessively following a train of thought, the author should remember that Alex is dragging the reader right along with him. I admire the skill, but I felt I wanted off the train every now and then. His handling of location was superb. I'll be looking for more books
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Summary: You have a fan
Review: What can I say?...I love it...very well written and worded...Steve pump out some more man...
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Summary: Paradise is real.
Review: Yup. It's a real place, not too far from my home. And it's populated by the bartenders, drunken locals, Indian casinos, and log cabins Hamilton describes in "A Cold Day in Paradise". And greed, lies, manipulation, and terror are real, too. This compelling novel isolates those human traits, puts them in the chill of Northern Michigan, and spins a story I couldn't put down. One whole weekend I sat in my cabin in the woods, listening to the chill winds outside, reading this novel in front of my fireplace. I was in paradise.
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