Blood Is the Sky
Alex McKnight Series: Book #5
- By: Steve Hamilton
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Description
When a fire is done, what’s left is only half-destroyed. It is charred and brittle. It is obscene. There is nothing so ugly in all the world as what a fire leaves behind, covered in ashes and smoke and a smell you’ll think about every day for the rest of your life. Reluctant investigator Alex McKnight finds himself drawn by friendship into a long drive north. The brother of Alex’s longtime Ojibwa friend Vinnie LeBlanc works as a hunting guide, serving the rich clients from downstate. It seems that Vinnie’s brother and his most recent group of hunters have vanished in northern Ontario, and Vinnie is scared enough to ask Alex to help him find them. Their arrival sets in motion a heart-pounding string of events that leaves Alex and his friend miles from civilization, stranded in the heart of the Canadian wilderness with no food, no weapons -and no way out. And there’s someone out there who definitely does not want them to make it back alive. At once elegant and enormously suspenseful, Steve Hamilton’s Blood Is the Sky heralds his arrival as one of the premier crime writers working today.
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Alex McKnight Series Series

A Cold Day in Paradise
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise,... Read more »
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A Cold Day in Paradise
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise,... Read more »
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Winter of the Wolf Moon
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter winter of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young Ojibwa woman, asks him for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. McKnight... Read more »
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The Hunting Wind
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In an unprecedented literary feat, Steve Hamilton’s debut novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, captured both the prestigious Edgar and Shamus awards. Now the bestselling author presents the third installment in his critically acclaimed mystery series: a complex, atmospheric tale that will plunge listeners back into icy, unpredictable Alex McKnight... Read more »
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North of Nowhere
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Lying face down on the floor with agun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a gameof cards turns into a professional heist at the home of local developer WinVargas. When the dust settles, McKnight is one of Police Chief Roy Maven’s leadsuspects. Worse, Vargas’ own sense of vigilante justice has targeted the... Read more »
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North of Nowhere
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Lying face down on the floor with a gun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a game of cards turns into a professional heist at the home of local developer Win Vargas. When the dust settles, McKnight is one of police chief Roy Maven’s lead suspects. Worse, Vargas’s own sense of vigilante justice has targeted the... Read more »
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Blood Is the Sky
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Jim Bond
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When a fire is done, what’s left is only half-destroyed. It is charred and brittle. It is obscene. There is nothing so ugly in all the world as what a fire leaves behind, covered in ashes and smoke and a smell you’ll think about every day for the rest of your life. Reluctant investigator Alex McKnight finds himself drawn by friendship into a... Read more »
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Ice Run
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Jim Bond
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Alex McKnight is in love. Even though he met Natalie Reynaud, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police, under difficult circumstances, they share a common bond of solitude, as well as the same nightmare - they’re both cops who buried their partners. It’s Alex’s first real relationship in years, which in some ways is terrifying. But Natalie... Read more »
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A Stolen Season
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Jim Bond
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
On a cold, miserable night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Alex McKnight helps rescue the passengers, he finds three men. The driver is out cold, the other... Read more »
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Misery Bay
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
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 thirty-six 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... Read more »
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Die a Stranger
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Let It Burn
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Riddle Island
By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
On the afternoon of July 30, 1975, former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa left the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, never to be seen again. Over two hundred FBI agents have been working the case in the forty-four years since that day—digging up end zones, driveways, hay fields, and horse farms—and yet... Read more »
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