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    Blood Is the Sky
    Blood Is the Sky
    Blood Is the Sky
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    Blood Is the Sky

    Written by Steve Hamilton

    Narrated by Jim Bond

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    About this audiobook

    Before Blood is the Sky, the Alex McKnight series had already hit bestseller lists and won awards, but this novel took it to a whole new level. Set in the forests of northern Ontario, a land of savage beauty and sudden danger, Blood is the Sky shows why Steve Hamilton is one of the most acclaimed crime novelists writing today.

    Alex McKnight isn't a man with many friends, but the few he has know they're never alone in a fix. So when Vinnie LeBlanc asks for his help in taking a trip deep into Canada in search of his missing brother, he knows he can count on Alex. His brother had taken a job as a hunting guide for a rough crew of Detroit "businessmen." The group was due back days ago, yet there's been no sign of them, and there's mounting evidence of something odd about their disappearing act. The trackless forests of northern Ontario keep many secrets, but none more shocking than the one that Alex is about to uncover. And the more closely Alex looks for answers, the more questions there become.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543610857
    Blood Is the Sky
    Author

    Steve Hamilton

    Steve Hamilton was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated from the University of Michigan where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction. In 2006, he won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. His novels have won numerous awards and media acclaim beginning with the very first in the Alex McKnight series, A Cold Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer. Once published, it went on to win the MWA Edgar and the PWA Shamus Awards for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Anthony and Barry Awards. His book The Lock Artist is the winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with his wife Julia and their two children.

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    • 5/5
      This was a well written, well paced story that kept me guessing up to the end! The characters were well developed and I cared about them . A nice departure from the all too popular serial killer theme.
    • 5/5
      I loved the reader! The story was a fantastic thriller!
    • 4/5
      I feel like I know Paradise, Michigan now and that I'd find Alex living there. Yes, it is a real place. I've been there. Beautiful country. That being said, all of his characters are so beautifully realized and the conversations that they have all feel so natural. He's a fine writer and this book is as good as or better than anything I have read to date. I think the thing I like most about his books is that it doesn't spend two pages or more describing everything.
    • 3/5
      This is Steve Hamilton's fifth book in the series featuring former Detroit cop Alex McKnight, now 62 and living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.As the story begins, Alex is trying to rebuild the cabin built by his father but destroyed by fire. His neighbor, Ojibwa Indian Vinnie LeBlanc, begins to help Alex but stops showing up. Alex discovers that Vinnie’s troubled brother Tom has disappeared on a moose hunt he was leading, and Alex offers to help Vinnie go up to Ontario to try to track him down.The two get stonewalled and worse as they try to uncover what happened to the hunting party, all of whom have gone missing. They are further stymied by the hostile local police force in Canada working on the case, Natalie Reynaud and her partner Claude DeMers.Although Alex and Vinnie are warned to leave the police to the case and go home, neither one of them are willing to do that. Soon enough, they are in a fight for their lives, with no idea who the enemy is or what the problem is. All they know is that the odds are against their survival.Discussion: The crime portion of the plot wasn’t all that consistent or convincing, but in any event, it mainly seemed to serve as a foil to explore the relationship between Alex and Vinnie. But there was a moderate amount of tension to keep one reading, and Alex is a likable character.
    • 4/5
      The story was a bit more convoluted than the previous one in the series and there was a lot of driving back and forth which seemed a bit 'casual' - I think an 8 hour road trip normally would take more thought than just hopping in your truck and heading out. And there was a bit of a lapse regarding the border crossings into Canada. The main character and his cohort drive across the border without id, with weapons, and all beat up. And nobody stops them or even looks at them funny. Pretty sure you can't get across an international border so easily. Oh, and after the 'big reveal', there is another little.... hmmm... continuation of the story which I think might have been a bit too much. The tension was all resolved by this point so I wasn't really that invested in this second wrap up.Of course, I will be reading the next in the series.
    • 5/5
      I've read all of Steve Hamilton's books and I watch his web site looking forward to the next one. I recommend them to everyone, even people who don't read mysteries. I recommended this book to a teenage boy who was very surprised to find out that he enjoyed a book that was recommended by an old lady.
    • 3/5
      Alex McKnight of this series is a hard-luck guy! His promising baseball career is brought to an end by an injury. He joins the Detroit police but this part of his life ends tragically when he gets shot up and his partner is killed. Wouldn't you know it, his wife leaves him! He ends up in the wilds of Michigan where his father has left him some land with a few cabins which he rents out during hunting and snowmobiling seasons. Hamiliton's subtle humor and magnificent descriptions of the land and people held my interest and made the story worth reading.
    • 5/5
      Alex McKnight is rebuilding the cabin his father built, destroyed by fire, when his neighbor Vinnie, an Ojibwa Indian, lends a hand. As the fall season wanes and winter threatens to halt construction Alex becomes aware of the disappearance of Vinnie's younger brother Tom. Together they set out in search of Tom, and the Detroit businessmen he was guiding for, in northern Ontario's forests only to discover they're following a cold trail. If things weren't already complicated, Vinnie explains that Tom is using Vinnie's identity as parolees aren't allowed to leave the country. The party of five have already departed the lodge, according to the owners but things are already not adding up. Vinnie argues there should have been six men in total, the five businessmen and his brother the guide. Hank Gannon, part lodge owner and pilot, assures them they have their own guide and there were only the five businessmen, who insisted they needed no guide and left the cabin in shambles before departing a few days earlier.Traveling back home, Vinnie becomes involved in a bar fight and Alex, ever one to stand with a friend, gets his own licks in. Morning rousts the two from their hotel room with a call from the local constabulary in the form of Natalie Reynaud and her soon to retire partner, Claude DeMers. Alex and Vinnie are asked to explain their voice mail on the cell of one of the declared missing persons, followed by a lengthy explanation as to the case of mistaken identity between Vinnie and his brother Tom.Things get even more tangled from this point onward as Alex is convinced there is a lot more going on and even more secrets that aren't being disclosed. He ignores the advice of DeMers and rather than heading home, continues on with his own investigation. When he and Vinnie discover the abandoned suburban used by the hunting party, they are once more encouraged to go home and forget about the case, letting the police handle the investigation.Once again the two men ignore the advice and soon find themselves in a nightmarish situation and a fight for their lives, not only against an unknown enemy but mother nature as well. Pieces start falling together, the fate of the hunters is discovered, and still there is something missing.Steve Hamilton's fifth book in the Alex McKnight series will leave you guessing until the last chapters. Filled with friendships, loss, and personal growth, I found myself thoroughly involved in the story and the characters lives, while still surprised at the ending. Alex understands that healing is an ongoing process and by reaching out to others it allows us to heal ourselves a little. If your a fan of mystery, this is a series not to be missed.
    • 3/5
      An 'escape' read and an impulse selection, this crime mystery brings a former cop and his Ojibwa neighbor together in trailing a missing brother into Canada moose hunting country. Okay read but series will probably not join Jance and Barr in my "have to read sector." (lj)
    • 4/5
      It is October in Paradise, Michigan, and Alex McKnight is rebuilding one of his cabins with help from his neighbour Vinnie LeBlanc. They're interrupted when Vinnie is called away to deal with a family emergency: his brother, Tom, has not returned from a hunting trip to Canada. He is already four days overdue.