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A review by jacki_f
Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton
5.0
This is the 5th book in the Alex McKnight series by Steve Hamilton and if you are new to the series, consider yourself lucky (but start at the beginning, with A Cold Day In Paradise). This one picks up shortly after North of Nowher as Alex is rebuilding his cabin. His friend Vinnie asks Alex to travel to Canada with him to help find his brother, who has not returned from a hunting expedition.
It's a thrilling read, one of those books that keeps your up late, turning the pages. The first two thirds keep building the tension, building the tension, and then when that resolves there are a couple of twists to hold your interest.
I am so in love with the way that Steve Hamilton writes. He has such a wonderful sense of place - I feel like I know Paradise, Michigan now and that I'd find Alex living there if I were only to visit it. (I was girlishly delighted to look in the atlas and discover that it's a real place). All of his characters are so beautifully realized and the conversations that they have all feel so natural. He's a fine writer and this book is as good as or better than the others I've read to date.
It's a thrilling read, one of those books that keeps your up late, turning the pages. The first two thirds keep building the tension, building the tension, and then when that resolves there are a couple of twists to hold your interest.
I am so in love with the way that Steve Hamilton writes. He has such a wonderful sense of place - I feel like I know Paradise, Michigan now and that I'd find Alex living there if I were only to visit it. (I was girlishly delighted to look in the atlas and discover that it's a real place). All of his characters are so beautifully realized and the conversations that they have all feel so natural. He's a fine writer and this book is as good as or better than the others I've read to date.