title: Alex McKnight series
text: # Alex McKnight series
  
  The Alex McKnight series is a fictional crime series by author Steve Hamilton featuring protagonist Alex McKnight, a former Detroit police cop. The setting for the books is Paradise, a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The series is published by Minotaur Books.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  The first book in the series, A Cold Day in Paradise, won both the Edgar Award and the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Hamilton has twice been a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Novel (North of Nowhere, Blood is in the Sky)
  
  ## Books
  
  * A Cold Day in Paradise (1998)
  * Winter of the Wolf Moon (2000)
  * The Hunting Wind (2002)
  * North of Nowhere (2003)
  * Blood is the Sky (2004)
  * Ice Run (2005)
  * A Stolen Season (2006)
  * Beneath the Book Tower: An Alex McKnight Short Story (2011)
  * Misery Bay (2011)
  * Die a Stranger (2012)
  * Let It Burn (2013)
  * Dead Man Running (2018)
  