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    Die a Stranger

    Written by Steve Hamilton

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

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    About this audiobook

    Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning.

    And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing.

    Vinnie is an Ojibwa tribal member, a blackjack dealer at the Bay Mills Casino, and he just might be Alex McKnight's best friend. He's come through for Alex more than once in the past, and he never ever misses a day of work. So Alex can't help but be worried. There's a deadly crime war creeping into Michigan's Upper Peninsula, leaving bodies in its wake, and Alex wouldn't think for a minute that his friend could be involved. But when an unexpected and unwelcome stranger arrives in town, Alex will soon find out that the stakes are higher than he ever could have imagined.

    Two-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton returns with this outstanding new novel - perhaps his boldest book yet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 3, 2012
    ISBN9781455851324
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    Die a Stranger
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    Steve Hamilton

    Steve Hamilton was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated from the University of Michigan where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction. In 2006, he won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. His novels have won numerous awards and media acclaim beginning with the very first in the Alex McKnight series, A Cold Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer. Once published, it went on to win the MWA Edgar and the PWA Shamus Awards for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Anthony and Barry Awards. His book The Lock Artist is the winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with his wife Julia and their two children.

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    • 4/5
      Steve Hamilton is just getting better and better at his craft even as he chooses to go beyond just the "mystery" story and focus and the lives of the main characters in his stories. This book sees Alex McKnight, reluctant private eye, searching high and low for his friend Vinnie LeBlanc, who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances involving his cousin, Buck and a botched drug deal that caused a few deaths. Out of the blue, Vinnie's long lost father Lou appears, and both of the searchers form a bond while traveling across the Great Lakes territory following thin lead after thin lead. On the way, Alex learns a lot about Lou, Vinnie's father and how he came to be estranged from the family, as well as how far a father's love will go to save a son, as well as his own sense of family and loss.

      Being from Michigan, these books are even more interesting. I remember visiting some of the places that Steve Hamilton writes about, so could really picture the scenes. Die a Stranger was suspenseful from beginning to end and certainly an enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      What seems to be an extended road trip around Michigan explodes into action in the last third of this new Alex McKnight novel. Steve Hamilton does an excellent job .
    • 5/5
      AUTHOR: Hamilton, SteveTITLE: Die a StrangerDATE READ: 01/25/2016RATING: 5/AGENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/ 2012 / St. Martin's / 277 pgs SERIES/STAND-ALONE: #9 Alex McKnightCHARACTERS Alex McKnight / private detective TIME/PLACE: 2012 / UP, MIFIRST LINES On a clear warm night in June, a small airplane is flying low over Lake Huron. COMMENTS: Steve Hamilton is another "sure thing" for me -- great book! Alex's best friend Vinnie Le Blanc goes missing along w/ Buck Carrick. Vinnie's mother recently passed and he has been acting strange… A small Canadian plane has delivered weed to small airport and leaves behind several dead… Buck was the only one left alive. Alex is assisted by Lou LeBlanc, Vinnie's father who has been the guest of Nevada's penitentiary system for the last 2 decades. Riveting read.
    • 4/5
      I won this from the Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.It took awhile for me to really get into this book. It was slow for about the first 80 pages and then it started getting pretty interesting. The last 100 pages though really grabbed me and it became very difficult for me to put the book down. I liked the way the story unfolded and even though the ending wasn't totally happy, it was very fitting and left me satisfied. I will have to look for other books in this Alex McKnight series by this author.