About the Author: Born and raised in Detroit, Steve Hamilton graduated from the University of Michigan where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction. In 2006, he won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. His novels have won numerous awards and media acclaim beginning with the very first in the Alex McKnight series, A Cold Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer. Once published, it went on to win the MWA Edgar and the PWA Shamus Awards for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Anthony and Barry Awards. The awards didn't stop there but he's too modest to crow about them. Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with his wife Julia and their two children.

Awards: Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (2003) : North of Nowhere
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2003) : North of Nowhere
Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (2004) : Blood Is The Sky
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2004) : Blood Is The Sky
Dagger Awards Best Novel nominee (2008) : Night Work