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    Let It Burn

    Written by Steve Hamilton

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

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    Even though Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, a trip to Motown these days is a trip to a past he'd just as soon forget. The city will forever remind him of his partner's death and of the bullet still lodged in his own chest. So he's more than happy to stay in the little town of Paradise, three hundred miles and half a lifetime away.

    Then he gets a call from his old sergeant. It turns out that a young man Alex helped put away will be getting out of prison. That one big case marked the highlight of his career, before his partner was killed, before his marriage fell apart, before he left Detroit, forever. Now that man is about to walk free.

    When the sergeant invites Alex downstate to have a drink for old times' sake, it's an offer he would normally refuse. However, there's a certain female FBI agent he can't stop thinking about, so he gets in his truck and goes back to Detroit. While there, he's reminded of something about that last case, a seemingly small piece of the puzzle that he never got to share. It's not something anyone wants to hear, but Alex can't let go of this gut feeling that they arrested the wrong man.

    And that the real killer not only got away, but went on to kill again.

    And again.

    And again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9781455851416
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    Let It Burn
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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Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer.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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    • 3/5
      Alex McKnight used to be a police officer in Detroit. After he was seriously wounded in an incident in which his partner was killed, he retired from the force and moved up to Paradise, where he rents out several cabins to tourists and finds himself (often reluctantly) in the private investigator game. One day he gets a phone call from his former commanding officer in Detroit, telling him that a man he had helped put in prison was being released after a number of years. It was a case Alex hadn't thought about in many years, because it happened just before he was wounded.

      The phone call brings him back to Detroit, and the decline of the city really hits home for him. Having a drink with his former sergeant, he starts thinking about the case that could have launched his career if he hadn't been wounded. The more he thinks about it, the more he realizes he has questions about what transpired. These are questions nobody wants to hear, and Alex isn't sure he wants to know the answers, but he starts to wonder whether the right man was sent to prison all those years ago. And when other similar murders are uncovered, Alex is determined to try and help solve the mystery--and understand what happened in the first place.

      The only thing that was missing from this book, by and large, was Paradise, as the story mostly took place in Detroit. And barely any Paradise meant barely any Jackie or Vinnie, although Alex's former partner and constant guide, Leon, did make a few appearances. If the Paradise connection is what you like most about Hamilton's books, you'll be slightly disappointed; I enjoyed getting to see this other dimension in Alex's life and coming to understand the events that have made Alex who he is. I just hope that Steve Hamilton doesn't veer down this path too often.
    • 4/5
      I crossed through the northen reaches of the city, turning down one street after another. I saw the abandoned houses. I saw the garbage and the graffiti and the high weeds. I saw the charred remains of houses that had burned down. This is something Detroit had always been known for, of course. Devil's Night, the night before Halloween, when people would come from literally all over the world to watch the city burn. Every fireman on the job would be out that night and just about every cop, too. It always felt like a losing battle, but now . . .Now it was like the whole city just said, all together . . . Let it burn.The bulk of this series is set on the UP of Michigan, but the character Alex McKnight has his roots in Detroit, and the bulk of this installment in the series sees him back on his old turf. Author Steve Hamilton is a native of Detroit, and I think that perhaps he is mourning the fate of his hometown through the eyes of his protagonist in this novel."What the hell," I said out loud. I was looking at the shell of what was once a monument. A palace. And I was thinking of everything else I had seen that day. "How can a whole city come to this?"This latest installment may be the best yet in the series. The release of a convicted murderer that Alex helped put away has the former cop taking another look at the case and at his old precinct. The first section alternates chapters between the present-day life of Alex, and those last few weeks of his career as a Detroit police officer. The suspense was such that I had to put the book down because I couldn't take the suspense, then had to pick it right back up to see what came next.
    • 5/5
      As a former Michigander, I can really get into. Steve Hamilton's novels. I'm familiar with the locations and people he writes about. The narrator did a fantastic job on this one, especially! Keep it up, Steve!
    • 4/5
      Another winner in this appealing series.
    • 4/5
      For fans of the series, very little of the new Alex McNight book is set in Paradise. The main character in this book is the city of Detroit. Alex relives his last summer as a police officer, by returning to a case that he invested time and energy to solve, perhaps coming to the wrong conclusion. Going back and forth in time to that Detroit summer ten years prior, Alex reinvestigates the case, and recalls the city as it was. Slow start with a rapid conclusion.
    • 4/5
      AUTHOR Hamilton, SteveTITLE: Let It BurnDATE READ: 03/21/2016RATING 4.5/B+GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF PAGES Crime Fiction / 2013/ Minotaur Books / 276 pagesSERIES/STAND-ALONE: #10 in Alex McKnight seriesCHARACTERS Alex McKnight/private eyeTIME/PLACE: 2013 / Detroit, MIFIRST LINES Summers die hard in Paradise.COMMENTS: I don't know what it was -- the setting of Detroit rather than the UP, knowing that this may be the last Alex McKnight book or more than likely just me and a mood thing -- but it took me quite awhile to settle into this book. A bit of a change since Alex is back in Detroit after he receives a call re his last case, the one that put him on disability for the gunshot wound . It has been 10 years and Darryl King is being released. Darryl King had been convicted of robbery/murder … Alex worked on the beginning of this but then was out due to being shot. He returns to Detroit, visits Darryl's mother and ends up researching the case -- finding a few hinky things that don't add up to Darryl King being guilty. In the end another good story!