Misery Bay - Softcover

Set amidst the lakes and woods of Northern Michigan, MISERY BAY is an icily gripping thriller of murder, madness and revenge.

A teenage boy is found hanging from a tree on a remote shore of Lake Superior in the dead of winter. There's no evidence of foul play. But then something about the scene by the freezing lake starts nagging at Alex McKnight's cop-brain, and when the cop who caught the case mentions in passing another tragic teenage suicide - again involving the son of a cop - Alex finds that he's become involved in a full-blown mystery. As what seems like a tragic suicide turns out to be the first of a bizarre series of killings, as a dark family history is gradually uncovered and the hunt for a very unusual killer begins...

In the dead of winter a young man is found hanging from a tree on a remote shore of Lake Superior known as Misery Bay.There's no evidence of foul play.Nothing to suggest it's anything other than a tragic teenage suicide.

Devastated and unbelieving, the boy's father just has one question: why?

Finding the answer is not a job ex-cop Alex McKnight relishes.But loss is something he understands only too well, and he knows how much Charles Razniewski needs to find some sort of closure, so he can grieve properly for his son.

Except that sometimes when you're looking for closure, you find the opposite.When he starts to question the local cops about the suicide, Alex's instincts instantly tell him that something is very, very wrong.And that he's unwittingly opened a door into a nightmare world of madness, murder and twisted revenge.

STEVE HAMILTON

'Too good for words' NEW YORK TIMES
'Enthralling' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
'Compelling' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'Can't-put-it-down spectacular' LEE CHILD
'Captivating' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'Crime-writing at its very best' GEORGE PELECANOS