Steve Hamilton: A Cold Day in Paradise, Orion, London, 2000. First UK edition, first printing. 9 ½ x 6 ½. Author’s first novel, winner of the Edgar and Shamus Awards for best first mystery novel. Featuring former Detroit police detective, Alex McKnight.

Steve Hamilton has been a mystery writer for fourteen years in during this time he has steadily built a solid reputation as a crime writer of note. He began with a detective in a small town in Michigan and has blossomed into a most accomplished writer of various aspects of the crime novel. He was tipped for the Edgar with The Lock Artist well before he received the award. It is about boy that assumes different identities at different times in his life. As his story begins, he is “the Lock Artist”, held in a high-security prison for his audacious skill in opening things. At the age of eight he was “the Miracle Boy”, survivor of an incident so traumatic it rendered him mute. How he became “the Kid”, “the Boxman” and “the Ghost Junior” along the way is mapped out in a memoir that records his youthful solace in drawing and the mechanisms of locks. It is some story, and went on to win the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.

Hamilton one of only two mystery writers to be awarded both the Edgars and has a growing following. A Cold Day in Paradise is his first novel.

Book Condition: Sharp copy, crisp, bright and tight. VF in VF Dust Jacket