“Already one of our best writers.”—Laura Lippman
“I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it. Hamilton has been flying under the radar with his Alex McKnight series for too long.”—Harlan Coben
“A proven master of suspense.”—Lee Child
“I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I’m ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan.”—James Patterson
“Hamilton understands the border mentality, and his tensile prose—with its shifting images of heat and cold, light and dark—reflects the dramatic, often violent contradictions of people who live on the edge of the world.”—The New York Times Book Review