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Night Work

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

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

It's been two years since the murder of Joe's fiancée, Laurel. Two years of grief and loneliness. On this hot summer night, he is 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.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Steve Hamilton, Edgar-winning author of the Alex McNight series, introduces a new character, Joe Trumbull, a probation officer. Joe is trying to reenter the world of the living two years after his fiancée was strangled on the evening of his bachelor party. Sadly, this leads to more loss. After his first date in years, Joe is targeted by both the police and a stalker. Dick Hill's clipped tones and deliberate pace evoke a claustrophobic atmosphere. His performance demonstrates the passion and hope seeping through Joe's pain. Hill expresses emotions well and expertly paces the book, but he can't rescue the text from weighing itself down with too many distractions, which instead of adding suspense, feel like padding. E.D.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 9, 2007
      Edgar-winner Hamilton’s first stand-alone crime thriller falls short of his excellent Alex McKnight series (A Stolen Season
      , etc.). When Joe Trumbull, a juvenile probation officer in Kingston, N.Y., finally decides to socialize two years after his fiancée’s murder, his blind date winds up strangled to death hours after their meeting. The local police chief calls in a pair of state detectives, who make Joe their prime suspect after two more woman are murdered who recently had contact with him. A loner beset by nightmares living in a messy apartment above the gym where he boxes to keep in shape, Joe begins to investigate to clear his name. Though the usually reliable Hamilton nicely evokes life in Kingston and the Hudson River landscape, this search for a psychopathic killer disappoints with repetitive dead ends and a clichéd wounded protagonist who brings on the terrifying climax by working with no backup. Author tour.

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