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)