Die a Stranger (35 page)
Authors: Steve Hamilton
Tags: #Fiction, #Mystery & Detective, #Hard-Boiled, #Private Investigators, #Thrillers, #General
Also by Steve Hamilton
Misery Bay
The Lock Artist
Night Work
A Stolen Season
Ice Run
Blood Is the Sky
North of Nowhere
The Hunting Wind
Winter of the Wolf Moon
A Cold Day in Paradise
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEVE HAMILTON’s first novel,
A Cold Day in Paradise
, won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest before becoming a
USA Today
bestseller and winning both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His stand-alone novel,
The Lock Artist,
was named a
New York Times
Notable Crime Book, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and then went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel, making him only the second author (after Ross Thomas) to win Edgars for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, and now lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and their two children.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
DIE A STRANGER.
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Hamilton. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Cover photograph of road ©
rattanapatphoto/shutterstock.com
Cover illustration of tire marks ©
Robert Adrian Hillman/shutterstock.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Hamilton, Steve.
Die a stranger : an Alex McKnight novel / Steve Hamilton.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-64021-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-01319-4 (e-book)
1. McKnight, Alex (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Michigan—Upper Peninsula—Fiction. 3. Missing persons—Fiction. 4. Upper Peninsula (Mich.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A44363D54 2012
813'.54—dc23
2012010695
eISBN 9781250013194
First Edition: July 2012