Let it Burn is the newest novel in the acclaimed Alex McKnight series by two-time Edgar award-winner and New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton.
Even
though Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police
officer, a trip to Motown these days is a trip to a past he’d just as
soon forget. The city will forever remind him of his partner’s death and
of the bullet still lodged in his own chest. So he’s more than happy to
stay in the little town of Paradise, three hundred miles and half a
lifetime away.
Then he gets a call from his old sergeant. It
turns out that a young man Alex helped put away will be getting out of
prison. That one big case marked the highlight of his career, before his
partner was killed, before his marriage fell apart, before he left
Detroit, forever. Now that man is about to walk free.
When the
sergeant invites Alex downstate to have a drink for old times’ sake,
it’s an offer he would normally refuse. However, there’s a certain
female FBI agent he can’t stop thinking about, so he gets in his truck
and he goes back to Detroit. While there, he’s reminded of something
about that last case, a seemingly small piece of the puzzle that he
never got to share. It’s not something anyone wants to hear, but Alex
can’t let go of this gut feeling that they arrested the wrong man.
And that the real killer not only got away, but went on to kill again.
And again.
And again.
Check out the newest Alex McKnight mystery set in the U.P. of Michigan, Let It Burn, by Steve Hamilton today!