Night Work: A Novel

Steve Hamilton

Sep 2007 · Sold by Minotaur Books

About this ebook

With Night Work, award-winning author of the acclaimed Alex McKnight series Steve Hamilton delivers an atmospheric standalone thriller.

Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. But tonight he is scared to death.

It's been two years since Joe's fiancée, Laurel, was murdered. Two years of grief and loneliness. On this hot summer night, he's finally going on a blind date, his first since Laurel's death. He's not looking for love, just testing the waters to see if it's possible to live a normal life again. And after the first awkward minutes, Joe starts to think this date wasn't such a bad idea after all. In fact, maybe it will turn out to be one of the best things that ever happened to him.

He couldn't be more wrong. Because somehow, for reasons Joe doesn't yet understand, this one evening will mark the beginning of a new nightmare. A nightmare that will lead him to realize that the past is never past. And the worst is yet to come.

Ratings and reviews

I'm a big fan of the alex mcknight series and those books show his real writing skill. This particular story was really good except he abruptly butchered the ending. Not enough effort was put into the antagonist . Its personality seemed unrealistic to me and it was very difficult for me to picture the ending scenes of the book especially since you were barely given much insite into this character.

This book is nothing but page after page of rambling on about the surroundings. You must read 5 pages of this before you get one of the slow moving story. Sorry Steve, go back to Paradise and Start writing good books again.

I like his style of writing. I found this suspenseful & finished the book in a few days. That right there is saying a LOT!

About the author

Steve Hamilton was born in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the prestigious Avery Hopwood Prize for writing. His first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won the PWA/SMP Best First Private Eye Novel Contest before going on to win both the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel. In 2006, Steve won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. He lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife, Julia, and their two children.