After five years, a new Alex McKnight novel by Steve Hamilton is coming out!

I've been a big fan of the "Alex McKnight" novels by Steve Hamilton since the very beginning so many years ago, and have reviewed several of them as a customer reviewer on Amazon.com. Well, Steve took a break from the series to try his hand at a couple of stand-alone novels. Finally, after five long years, Alex McKnight is back in a new novel, Misery Bay, due out on June 7th. Here's a brief synopsis of the book from Amazon.

"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 Bay.

Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won’t even hear about the suicide until another cold night, two months later and 250 miles away, when the door to the Glasgow Inn opens and the last person Alex would ever expect to see comes walking in 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 killer. 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, 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."

I don't know about you, but I'm damn anxious to read Misery Bay. I just have to figure out how to come up with the money to buy this new hardcover from Amazon with most of my bills coming in at the first of the month. As my mother used to say, "Where there's a will, there's a way." If it's as good as the synopsis implies, you'll see a review of the book here on my blog in the next month.