Alex McKnight series
# Alex McKnight series

The Alex McKnight series is a fictional crime series by author Steve Hamilton featuring protagonist Alex McKnight, a former Detroit police cop. The setting for the books is Paradise, a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The series is published by Minotaur Books.

## Awards and honors

The first book in the series, A Cold Day in Paradise, won both the Edgar Award and the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Hamilton has twice been a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Novel (North of Nowhere, Blood is in the Sky)

## Books

* A Cold Day in Paradise (1998)
* Winter of the Wolf Moon (2000)
* The Hunting Wind (2002)
* North of Nowhere (2003)
* Blood is the Sky (2004)
* Ice Run (2005)
* A Stolen Season (2006)
* Beneath the Book Tower: An Alex McKnight Short Story (2011)
* Misery Bay (2011)
* Die a Stranger (2012)
* Let It Burn (2013)
* Dead Man Running (2018)
