Blood Is the Sky

from Lynn_Barker

Alex McKnight of this series is a hard-luck guy! His promising baseball career is brought to an end by an injury. He joins the Detroit police but this part of his life ends tragically when he gets shot up and his partner is killed. Wouldn't you know it, his wife leaves him! He ends up in the wild...

from nbmars

This is Steve Hamilton's fifth book in the series featuring former Detroit cop Alex McKnight, now 62 and living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As the story begins, Alex is trying to rebuild the cabin built by his father but destroyed by fire. His neighbor, Ojibwa Indian Vinnie LeBlanc, begins to ...

from eduscapes

An 'escape' read and an impulse selection, this crime mystery brings a former cop and his Ojibwa neighbor together in trailing a missing brother into Canada moose hunting country. Okay read but series will probably not join Jance and Barr in my "have to read sector." (lj)

from Carol420

I feel like I know Paradise, Michigan now and that I'd find Alex living there. Yes, it is a real place. I've been there. Beautiful country. That being said, all of his characters are so beautifully realized and the conversations that they have all feel so natural. He's a fine writer and this book...

from crazybatcow

The story was a bit more convoluted than the previous one in the series and there was a lot of driving back and forth which seemed a bit 'casual' - I think an 8 hour road trip normally would take more thought than just hopping in your truck and heading out. And there was a bit of a lapse regardin...