Steve Hamilton Misery Bay

I wanted to end the week with a bang and I chose this novel to start it off.

Let’s get rolling on” Misery Bay”! Here is the synopsis:

“On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him 36 hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call Misery Bay, a good 250 miles west of Paradise. Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won’t even hear about the suicide until two months later, when the door to the Glasgow Inn opens and the last person Alex would ever expect comes walking inside to ask for his help. What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless and methodical killer. Alex McKnight knows all about evil, of course, having faced down a madman who killed his partner and left a bullet next to his heart. Mobsters, drug dealers, hitmen—he’s seen them all and they’ve taken away almost everything he’s ever loved. But none of that could ever prepare him for the darkness he’s about to enter. “

This is only the second novel of Steve Hamilton’s I have read and the first Alex McKnight vehicle for me. It will not be my last. Suspenseful is not a good enough adjective to describe this novel. Hamilton seems to anticipate my every need as a reader, pulling back for a bit when he has pushed fast and hard, giving me a small glimpse of a possible clue, than smacking me in the head with a dead end. Personally I love it. “Misery Bay”  did not want to leave my hands. My eyes didn’t want to stray from the page. I loved the entire cast of characters and that is one of the big reasons I am going to backtrack and read the rest of the McKnight novels.

Steve Hamilton right now is in the front of pack for my best novel of the second quarter 2011, no doubt, no contest. Where will it be come December for my best of the year? What do you think?

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