Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)

ex-cop And Sometime-p.i. Alex Mcknight Endures The Bitter Winter Of Michigan's Upper Peninsula In His Log Cabin With Warm Fires And Cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, A Young Ojibwa Woman Asks Him For Shelter From Her Violent Boyfriend, Mcknight Agrees. But After Secreting Her In One Of His Cabins, He Finds Her Gone The Next Morning. Mcknight Suspects Vicious, Hockey-playing Lonnie Bruckman Of Abducting The Woman, But His Search For Her Brings On More Suspects, Bruising Encounters, And A Thinkening Web Of Crime, All Obscured By The Relentless Whiplash Of Brutal Snowstorms. From The Secret World Of The Ojibwa Reservation To The Canadian Border And Deep Into The Silent Woods, Someone Is Out To Kill—and Mcknight Is Driving Right Into The Line Of Fire... library Journal after Subbing In An Amateur Ice Hockey Game For Some Indian Friends, Sometime Private Investigator Alex Mcknight Antagonizes An In-your-face Opponent Known For Racist Remarks, Drug Dealing, And Girlfriend Abuse. Alex Helps The Girlfriend, Who Promptly Disappears (along With An Important Parcel), Then Rescues Good Buddy Vinnie (an Ojibway Indian) From Jail--where He Landed After Attacking The Hockey Player. Alex, Vinnie, And A Would-be Detective/partner Search For The Woman, Sidestepping Murder, Vicious Assault, And More. The Isolated, Wintry Location Jives Well With Hamilton's Pristine Prose, Independent Protagonist, And Ingenious Plot. An Inviting Sequel To His Edgar Award-winning First Novel, A Cold Day In Paradise. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. "Alex Mcknight has a souvenir of his days as a cop - a bullet lodged too near his heart to be removed. He also has a guilty conscience about the death of his partner in that same shooting, and now he is left alone in his spartan log cabin, taking his meals at the nearby roadhouse, finding company there when he wants it - and not when he doesn't.". "But it doesn't work that way. When a young Native American woman comes to him asking for help, McKnight feels bound to protect her. He ensconces her in an unoccupied cabin that he owns - and finds her gone the following morning.". "McKnight is convinced that the woman's ex-lover, a particularly vicious member of the reservation hockey team, who McKnight outfaced in a recent game, has kidnapped her. Fearing for her life, he begins a frantic search, swatting away his self-appointed "partner" - the town's favorite fool - until the man surprises him. It's a search that leads to encounters with a variety of unsavory types, each with his own agenda, and to some extremely unpleasant discoveries by McKnight himself as he forcibly learns that criminal sadism knows no geographic boundaries and that the motives of both good and evil people can lead to disaster."--BOOK JACKET. Ex-cop and sometime P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter Michigan winter in his log cabin. When a young Ojibwa woman, asks for shelter from her abusive boyfriend, McKnight agrees. She disappears the next morning, and McKnight suspects her boyfriend of abducting her. But his search brings on more suspects and a thickening web of crime from the secret world of the Ojibwa reservation. Martin's Press. Private detective Alex McKnight agrees to help a young Native American woman escape from her abusive husband, but when the woman disappears, Alex risks his own life to save her Two minutes. That's how long it took me to realize I had made a big mistake.