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    Dead Man Running: An Alex McKnight Thriller
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    Dead Man Running: An Alex McKnight Thriller

    Written by Steve Hamilton

    Narrated by Nick Sullivan

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    About this audiobook

    Alex McKnight—hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series—is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered.

    On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right—the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body.

    Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares he'll only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight.

    Livermore means nothing to McKnight, but it soon becomes clear McKnight means something to Livermore...and that Livermore's capture was only the beginning of an elaborate, twisted plot with McKnight at the center. In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. And his grand finale will cut closer to home than he ever could have imagined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9780451483676
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    Dead Man Running: An Alex McKnight Thriller
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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Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer.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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    • 5/5
      The Alex McKnight thriller series by Steve Hamilton keeps rolling with DEAD MAN RUNNING. In this installment, serial killer Martin Livermore engineers his own capture only to refuse to speak to anyone except McKnight. Yet, McKnight doesn’t know the killer, has no connection to him. Or does he? Brought by the FBI from his isolated, calm existence in Michigan’s UP and seated before the killer, McKnight still can’t tease out a connection. But Livermore has a plan. To save another victim, he is taken by McKnight and a team of FBI agents to a canyon, where the imperiled young woman is supposedly being held. Livermore’s explosive escape leaves the agents dead, McKnight injured, and Livermore on the run. McKnight must then pursue the most dangerous and diabolical killer he has ever faced while attempting to uncover the thread that binds them together. Fast paced, convoluted, and breathless, this story will raise your pulse and your hair. Highly recommended. DP Lyle, award-winning author of the Jake Longly thriller series
    • 5/5
      Kind of like a David Baldacci Amos Decker novel. A serial killer seems fixated on Alex McKnight. Why? Eventually all is revealed and more Alex McKnight sequels would seem to be in the future.
    • 4/5
      The serial killer in this thriller is both brilliant and totally wacko, and obsessed with Alex McKnight, a retired police officer who was featured in some of Hamilton’s earlier books. After the killer's latest gruesome attack in Arizona, he allows himself to be caught, and insists he will only talk to Alex. The FBI brings Alex from Paradise, Michigan to Scottsdale, Arizona, even though Alex insists he has no idea who this man is.The killer, Martin Livermore, is a robotics engineer, so can come up with all sorts of clever ways to abuse his victims. And after he is caught the FBI is able to use his DNA to tie him to all the women tortured and killed in similar ways in a number of states in the west. But what ties him to Alex?Evaluation: The pace and tension will keep you riveted, but I am hoping the story isn’t realistic. (Ha ha, at every author’s panel I’ve attended, crime authors say they get the same comments, and reveal that in fact, they get their ideas from the news. Frightening!)
    • 3/5
      I did something with this book that I don't remember doing before: I read till the link between the murderer and the investigator is revealed and then quit. It's hard to explain why, but I found I wasn't interested in what happened after that. Perhaps this is unfair to Steve Hamilton and Alex McNight – there really is nothing wrong with the story or the writing. I have enjoyed Alex McNight books before. Maybe it was the jumping between two first-person POV (Alex and the killer) and the third-person narrative elsewhere. I have become less tolerant of this style over time. Or maybe the link, once it was revealed, was simply too tenuous. In any case, I was not drawn in.Not to say that it won't thrill you. The writing is good.I received a review copy of "Dead Man Running" by Steve Hamilton (Penguin Putnam) through NetGalley.com.
    • 4/5
      A serial killer tells his FBI interviewers he will only talk to Alex McKnight. The killer leads them to a spot in the Arizona desert. Shackled and chained he kills all those present with the except himself and McKnight, who has no clue way the killer has chosen his as his antagonist. McKnight chases the Killer across states lines to find the answer. An excellent thriller.
    • 5/5
      Five long years have past since Steve Hamilton let us visit with Alex McKnight. I thought we would never go back to Paradise, Michigan. Thank you Mr. Hamilton for our return. Alex hasn't changed much...still seems to be haunted by his past and struggling to make something of his future. He really didn't need a serial killer he has never heard of but who obviously knows every moment of his life, making demands and bringing the FBI to his door. I enjoyed the book but Alex didn't seem like himself in this one...hence the 4.5 stars instead of 5. I don't think the old Alex would have been this careless or made this many mistakes. I also missed the close friendships between Alex and the people of this small Michigan town. In spite of this...it's good to have Alex back and please Mr, Hamilton don't make us wait another 5 years!

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    • 5/5
      Steve Hamilton continues his outstanding Alex McKnight series in Dead Man Running. The book is a primer on how to write fast paced, tightly woven, suspense novels. Ex-Detroit police officer, Alex McKnight is the only person Marvin T. Livermore, a deranged killer and kidnapper of at least seven women will talk with after he is caught by the FBI. He gives the FBI personal details of Alex’’s life in order to set the bait. Trouble is, McKnight doesn’t know the guy from Adam and has no idea or how he could possibly know such intimate details of his life. True to form, Livermore escapes from FBI custody. He sets off across the country, but not before leaving a trail of clues that only McKnight can follow. It seems Livermore is always two steps ahead of McKnight. If he wants to solve the mystery of who this guy is McKnight will have to delve deep into his past and solve the bread crumbs that Livermore is mockingly dropping across the country in order to play with his head. As the trail leads McKnight back to his old stomping grounds he finds his past is indeed catching up with him.
    • 3/5
      I really liked this series, and this is my least favorite of the lot. Probably because it involved a serial killer.