New Releases by Steve Hamilton

Clarity Through Parody "Clarity Through Parody" offers a thought-provoking exploration of truth through the irony of life''s complexities. This insightful book delves into various aspects of Christianity, morality, and true faith. Through unexpected real-life events, the book presents these topics in a way that encourages readers to reflect and gain a deeper understanding. Each chapter is crafted to highlight the nuances of different topics, providing readers with a fresh perspective on familiar themes. The author''s unique reflection serves as a powerful tool for fostering critical thinking about topics such as the existence of God, the truth of sacraments, life, and suffering. Ideal for those who seek to better understand and appreciate different faith elements, "Clarity Through Parody" is a compelling read that promises to engage and enlighten. Discover how the parody in life can be a vehicle for clarity and insight, offering a new way to perceive and interpret God''s work in our lives.

Vivid and intense, Hamilton''s dark debut adeptly articulates the challenges and complexities of love and violence. Attorney Hyman Kazan is at his lowest point in life: with a struggling legal career and a failed relationship, Kazan is trying to find solace in alcohol. But when the body of a young man is found in downtown Vancouver, a link between the victim and Kazan''s girlfriend''s new lover, Judge Smith, soon comes to surface. As Kazan begins to look into Smith''s role in the murder, sinister secrets come to surface, threatening to destroy whatever is left of Kazan''s life. The narrative shuffles between sudden viewpoint shifts and flashbacks in the past, and the story becomes deeply disturbing as Kazan begins to dig deeper into Smith''s role in the case. Hamilton''s characters are fully fleshed-out, relatable people who will stay with readers: Kazan''s portrayal as a tortured soul held fast by rage and trauma makes him an unforgettable hero. Underneath his rough veneer swirls pain and vulnerability. Kazan''s inner turmoil plays out against the background of the gloomy skies and mercurial weather of Vancouver and the unraveling of his relationship with Briar. Hamilton skillfully evokes emotions as he delves into love, companionship, relationship upheaval, pain, regret, justice, mortality, and morality. This is a thoughtful, if diffuse, examination of love and relationships; how we drown ourselves more in misery in order to avoid the pain of a heartbreak. Imbued with passion and high-intensity emotion of a couple''s volatile relationship, this deeply intimate, emotionally charged tale makes for a winner.

Transformational conversations are a leader''s superpower. It is estimated that 75% of work gets done through conversations. Leaders who practice these Conversation Secrets empower themselves and their teams to ignite innovation and transform organizations. Leaders learn to be more adaptive, to lean into the language of possibility, and thrive through uncertainty. Their powerful conversations emphasize the human-centered core of the future of work, building trust, connection, and collaboration with all stakeholders: employees, shareholders, and the community. Learn these 21 Secrets to unleash your leadership superpower. Leadership is being democratized. Command and control leadership structures are crumbling in favor of more agile and collaborative designs. The Covid-19 Pandemic induced a work from home movement that has been revealing the ''real'' human side of business. We live in a vastly, ever increasingly complex world. To effectively navigate this new world, tomorrow''s leaders need to champion new conversations that recognize and elevate all stakeholders in their business, beyond just shareholder capitalism. The successful re-invention of organizations is being ignited through powerful conversations--perhaps a lost art--secrets of which this book starts to reveal. The authors have thousands of hours of executive coaching experience which they mined to develop these 21 conversation secrets. These secrets represent the areas where leaders consistently needed support to drive up their overall impact by having powerful conversations. Specifically, these conversations emphasize the human-centered core of the future of work, building trust and collaboration with all stakeholders: employees, shareholders, and the community. We are each leaders in our own lives and work. Our collective success accelerates when we apply these secrets. This has the power to inspire trust, connection, and foster inclusion and collaboration, creating a ripple effect in the future of work.

Nick Mason vit toujours sous la coupe de Darius Cole incarcéré à vie pour meurtre et qui vient d’obtenir un second procès au terme duquel il pourrait bien recouvrer la liberté. Mais trois de ses anciens associés menacent son plan. Cole ordonne donc à Mason d’infiltrer le programme fédéral de protection des témoins et de les réduire au silence. Seules quelques personnes haut placées savent où sont cachés ces témoins gardés par des U.S. marshals déterminés. Mason doit pourtant mener à bien cette mission suicide, sinon son ex et sa fille seront réduites au silence à leur tour. Danger supplémentaire, quelqu’un de tout aussi habile que lui le cherche... Et pas pour son bien. C’en est trop pour Mason, qui décide de trouver une stratégie de sortie. « Intrigue solide et scènes bourrées d’adrénaline... une lecture incontournable pour les fans de polar. » Kirkus Review

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.

Nick Mason ? Libre ? Mais est-on vraiment libre quand on sort tout juste de prison " La liberté de Nick Mason dura moins d''une minute. " Telle est la première phrase de ce roman salué comme un véritable chef-d''oeuvre par des maîtres aussi prestigieux que Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Don Winslow, Harlan Coben et Stephen King ! Oui, Nick Mason est sorti de prison au bout de cinq ans, et a droit à une deuxième chance. Mais il est loin d''être libre pour autant. Dès que son téléphone sonne, à n''importe quelle heure du jour ou de la nuit, il doit décrocher et faire très exactement ce qui lui est ordonné. C''est l''accord verbal, peut être un rien irréfléchi, qu''il a passé avec Darius Cole, le patron d''un empire du crime qu''il continue de diriger de la prison de Haute Terre où il a été condamné à deux peines de perpétuité. Obligé de commettre des crimes de plus en plus dangereux et pourchassé par l''inspecteur qui l''a mis derrière les barreaux, Nick devra tout risquer pour regagner sa fille et son ex... et gagner enfin sa liberté.

Van bestsellerauteur Steve Hamilton verschijnt nu Deal met de duivel. Voor fans van Lee Child en Harlan Coben. Van bestsellerauteur Steve Hamilton verschijnt nu Deal met de duivel. Voor fans van Lee Child en Harlan Coben. ‘Geloof Stephen King. Dit boek is het echte werk.’ Stephen King Nick Mason zit al vijf jaar onschuldig gevangen voor de moord op een DEA-agent als hem de kans wordt geboden weer vrij te komen. Hij hoeft alleen maar een deal te sluiten met de meedogenloze crimineel Darius Cole. De enige voorwaarde: als je telefoon gaat neem je op en doe je wat er van je gevraagd wordt. Nick geniet van zijn vrijheid en probeert de band met zijn ex-vrouw en dochter weer te herstellen, maar dan gaat de telefoon en krijgt hij zijn eerste opdracht...

Ein packender Gangsterthriller des vielfach ausgezeichneten US-Thrillerautors, der fesselnde Auftakt zur Serie mit Nick Mason, dem "Hitman wider Willen" - für Fans von Lee Child, Harlan Coben und Dennis Lehane Nick Mason war immer ein sauberer Gangster - soweit das in seinem Gewerbe möglich ist. Bis einer seiner Kumpels einen verdeckten Ermittler erschoss. Nick hielt sich an den Ehrenkodex, verriet seinen Komplizen nicht und ging in den Bau. Totschlag, Mindeststrafe: 25 Jahre. Im Gefängnis wird Darius Cole, der Pate von Chicago, auf ihn aufmerksam und macht ihm ein verlockendes Angebot: Nick soll Coles Mann für besondere Aufgaben werden, sein Ausputzer - und dafür wird er ihn raushauen. Und so ist Nick nach fünf Jahren wieder draußen. Eigentlich könnte er jetzt sein Leben in Freiheit genießen. Wenn da nicht dieses Handy wäre, das man ihm bei der Rückkehr nach Chicago überreicht hat. Wann wird es das erste Mal klingeln? "Umwerfend. Ein packender Nonstop-Thriller, fesselnd von der ersten Seite an." Don Winslow

"Nick Mason is given a daunting new mission -- to find witnesses under federal protection and kill them before they can testify against his master Darius Cole"--

Alex McKnight lleva catorce años viviendo con el miedo en la sangre, en forma de bala a menos de un centímetro del corazón. Maximilian Rose, el psicópata que lo hirió y que mató a su compañero cuando estaban en la policía, acabó en prisión. McKnight, por su parte, vive tranquilo en un pequeño pueblo llamado Paradise... Hasta que el asesinato de un corredor de apuestas hace saltar las alarmas otra vez. Rose sigue en la cárcel, pero el crimen lleva su sello inconfundible. Y McKnight empieza a sentir su aliento en la nuca, en un pueblo que empieza a parecerse a cualquier cosa excepto a un paraíso.

Reluctantly returning to Detroit to confront the trauma of a shooting that left his partner dead, Alex McKnight investigates an untapped clue and discovers that the man sentenced for the crime may not have been the killer.

One is too many. A thousand is never enough.'' ''Andrea arrived in rehab at the same time as me. We were in admissions together. I can''t remember how many times she''d tried to get clean, but it was my eleventh institution and I was dying. For two days I listened to her withdrawal in a room just down the passage from mine. The screaming, the swearing, the crying - and the hideous, desperate ka-klung! of the bars on the side of the bed as she wrestled with the restraints that kept her tied to it. I don''t know what damage they thought she could have done really. Andrea had had all the tips of her fingers amputated. She''d got gangrene from shooting up under her nails too many times ...'' At the age of fifteen I already had a criminal record, busted by the drug squad for possession of an illegal substance. You''d think I''d have learnt a lesson, wouldn''t you, but I''m still learning, even though I''m clean of street drugs now - well, just for today - and have a lot of clean time behind me. The hardest lesson of all for an addict is that the nightmare is never over and the powerful seduction of just one more high never ever goes away. The story in these pages is not a comfortable one. It doesn''t have an ending and I''m not even sure if it has a true beginning. Some of the time it may read like a bad dream. It isn''t. It''s my life you''re holding in your hands. Don''t let it be yours.

"I''m often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it." ―Harlan Coben Award-winning author Steve Hamilton''s Die A Stranger, an instant New York Times bestseller, further cements his reputation as one of the best in the business. 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 a member of the Ojibwa Indian tribe and he just might be Alex McKnight''s best friend. So Alex can''t help but be worried when he disappears. There''s a deadly crime war creeping into Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, and Alex never would have thought that his friend could be involved. But after an unexpected stranger arrives in town, Alex will soon find out that the stakes are higher than he ever could have imagined. Praise for Steve Hamilton and the Alex McKnight novels: "A proven master of suspense." ―Lee Child "As original as any writer I''ve ever read . . ." —Michael Connelly "Already one of our best writers." ―Laura Lippman "I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I''m ready to revisit Paradise, Michigan." ―James Patterson "Whatever he writes, I''ll read. Steve Hamilton'' that good." —Don Winslow

On a frozen January night, a young man hangs himself in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call Misery Bay. Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won''t even hear about the suicide until two months later, when the last person Alex would ever expect comes to him for 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. McKnight knows all about evil. Mobsters, drug dealers, hit men—he''s seen them all, and they''ve taken away almost everything he''s ever loved. But none of them could have ever prepared him for the darkness he''s about to face. A New York Times bestseller, Michigan Notable Book, and Boston Globe Best Crime Book of the Year, Steve Hamilton''s Misery Bay marks the return of one of crime fiction''s most critically acclaimed series.

A fast-paced, punch of a book from Edgar and Shamus Award–winning author Steve Hamilton, "a proven master of suspense" (Lee Child). Before the tragic event that made him seek refuge in a remote corner of Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight was a Detroit police officer. It''s a warm summer night, and Alex is out riding the night shift with his partner Franklin. There''s no shortage of trouble to be found on the dark streets of Motown. But on this particular night, Franklin has his own agenda. A must-read for any fan of Steve Hamilton and the Alex McNight books. Praise for Steve Hamilton "As original as any writer I''ve ever read." —Michael Connelly "Whatever he writes, I''ll read. Steve Hamilton''s that good." —Don Winslow

"Hypnotic . . . a proven master of suspense moves in a brand new direction―and the result is can''t-put-it-down spectacular." ―Lee Child "Too good for words" ( The New York Times Book Review ) . Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel and an Alex Award. Steve Hamilton steps away from his award–winning Alex McKnight series to introduce a unique new character, unlike anyone you''ve ever seen in the world of crime fiction. "I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me. But you can call me Mike." Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it''s a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe . . . . . he can open them all. It''s an unforgivable talent. A talent that will make young Michael a hot commodity with the wrong people and, whether he likes it or not, push him ever close to a life of crime. Until he finally sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long. Praise for Steve Hamilton and The Lock Artist : "Hamilton . . . understands what''s truly scary, what''s truly suspenseful." ― The Washington Post "The Lock Artist is superior in every way: intriguing, carefully crafted characters and a devious plot, all told in the haunting voice of a young man who has no voice. Just for spice, there''s a really good love story, too. . ." ― The Globe and Mail "I haven''t read a book this captivating in a long time. The Lock Artist is gutsy, genuine and, flat out, a great read. You won''t be disappointed." ―Michael Connelly

Joe Trumble is a probation officer with a tragedy in his past. Two years ago his fiancee was brutally killed three days before their wedding. No one has yet been caught. As the story opens, Joe is heading for a blind date with Marlene, a jewellery designer, his first encounter with a woman since his late fiancee Laurel''s death.The evening is a success, but next day Marlene is reported missing and, two days later, her body is found. As the last person to see her alive, Joe is at the very least a material witness and, as the evidence mounts and another body is found, suspicions begins to centre on him.

An atmospheric standalone thriller from the award-winning author of the acclaimed, bestselling Alex McKnight series. "A proven master of suspense." ―Lee Child Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. But tonight he is scared to death. It''s been two years since Joe''s fiancée, Laurel, was murdered. Two years of grief and loneliness. On this hot summer night, he''s finally going on a blind date, his first since Laurel''s death. He''s not looking for love, just testing the waters to see if it''s possible to live a normal life again. And after the first awkward minutes, Joe starts to think this date wasn''t such a bad idea after all. In fact, maybe it will turn out to be one of the best things that ever happened to him. He couldn''t be more wrong. Because somehow, for reasons Joe doesn''t yet understand, this one evening will mark the beginning of a new nightmare. A nightmare that will lead him to realize that the past is never past. And the worst is yet to come. Praise for Steve Hamilton: "As original as any writer I''ve ever read . . ." —Michael Connelly "Already one of our best writers." ―Laura Lippman "Whatever he writes, I''ll read. Steve Hamilton'' that good." —Don Winslow

Alex McKnight, un ancien flic de Detroit, se dépêche de rebâtir son chalet près de la frontière canadienne avant l''arrivée de l''hiver. Heureusement, son ami indien Vinnie LeBlanc, dit "Ciel-Rouge", lui donne un coup de main. Lorsque le frère de Vinnie disparaît, Alex part avec son ami à sa recherche. Mais au pavillon de chasse où Tom devait se trouver, ils découvrent un terrible secret. Et comprennent vite que quelqu''un ne veut pas qu''il s''ébruite...

Alex McKnight has to deal with drug dealers after rescuing three men from a boating accident.

Investigating the disappearance of a hunting group in the woods of northern Ontario, Alex McKnight finds himself deep in the wilderness, lacking food and weapons and at the mercy of a killer who would prevent everyone''s return.

A man and a woman - both police officers find each other and share the burden of losing their partners.

His work follows depressed private detective Alex McKnight into his personal life when the poker game he joins is robbed at gunpoint and he finds himself compelled to catch the thief.

Before he became a private investigator, before he served in the Detroit police, and long before he retreated to the wintry reaches of Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight played ball in the minor leagues. He doesn''t spend much time thinking about those days, at least not until a former teammate comes looking for him. . . . The man''s here to ask a favor. He wants Alex to help him find the woman with whom he had a brief, passionate affair three decades ago. Who is Alex to deny his friend a chance to ward off a classic midlife chill by rekindling an old flame? But as the search deepens, McKnight begins to suspect that he hasn''t been told the full story. And there might just be a reason why this mysterious woman is so hard to find. The Hunting Wind continues Steve Hamilton''s award-winning and New York Times-bestselling Alex McKnight series.

Private detective Alex McKnight agrees to help a young Native American woman escape from her abusive husband, but when the woman disappears, Alex risks his own life to save her.