Steve Hamilton (writer)

Steve Hamilton (born January 10, 1961 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American crime writer .

Life

Steve Hamilton grew up in Detroit and had a desire to write from childhood. As a 12-year-old, he sent his first short story to Ellery Queen , the then editor of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine . In response to his submission, however, he received a “No, thank you” card. In 1983 , Hamilton graduated from the University of Michigan , where he also won the Hopwood Award for creative writing in the fiction / non-fiction category.

Hamilton writes in his spare time and - despite the successful novels - has not given up his job at the IT company International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). He lives in the small town of Cottekill, 2.5 miles northwest of Rosendale Village, in upstate New York with his wife Julia and their two children, Nicholas G. and Antonia .

Hamilton's novels are set in the sparsely populated north of the American-Canadian border region of Michigan. The main protagonist is the cozy private detective Alex McKnight , a former detroit police officer who was retired due to a gunshot wound. He is financially independent thanks to an inheritance from several log houses and his pension. He is therefore not looking for cases, but they come across him more by chance and trigger his " helper syndrome ".

Hamilton is currently (10/2011) the only author whose first work (A Cold Day in Paradise) won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) in the category Best First Work and in the same year from the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) was awarded the Shamus Award in the identical category.

Awards

• 1999 Shamus Award - Category Best debut novel from the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for A Cold Day in Paradise (dt. A cold day in paradise)
• 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best First Novel category by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for A Cold Day in Paradise
• 2006 Michigan Author Award from the Michigan Library Association for literary work to date
• 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for The Lock Artist
• 2011 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger of the British Crime Writers' Association for The Lock Artist (as best thriller )
• 2011 Barry Award - Best Novel category by the US crime magazine Deadly Pleasures for The Lock Artist

Works

Alex McKnight series

• 1998 A Cold Day in Paradise (Eng. A cold day in paradise ). DuMont, Cologne 2001; ISBN 3-7701-5615-3
• 2000 Winter of the Wolf Moon (Eng. Under the Wolf Moon ). DuMont, Cologne 2001; ISBN 3-7701-5619-6
• 2001 The Hunting Wind (Eng. The left-hander ). DuMont, Cologne 2002; ISBN 3-8321-5909-6
• 2002 North of Nowhere (German north of nowhere ). DuMont, Cologne 2003; ISBN 3-8321-8308-6
• 2003 Blood is the Sky (dt. Sky full of blood ). DuMont, Cologne 2003; ISBN 3-8321-8323-X
• 2004 Ice Run (German Blind River ). DuMont, Cologne 2007; ISBN 978-3-8321-8348-6
• 2006 A Stolen Season
• 2011 Misery Bay
• 2012 The a Stranger
• 2013 Let It Burn
• 2018 Dead Man Running

Others

• 2007 Night Work
• 2009 The Lock Artist (Eng. The man from the safe ). Droemer, Munich 2012; ISBN 978-3-426-22621-6
• 2016 The Second Life of Nick Mason (Eng. The second life of Nick Mason ). Droemer, Munich 2017; ISBN 978-3-426-30498-3
• 2017 Exit Strategy (A Nick Mason Novel) ( three witnesses too many ). Droemer, Munich 2018; ISBN 978-3-426-30499-0

Short stories

• 2005 One fast Packard . In: Jessica Kaye and Richard J. Brewer (Eds.): Meeting Across the River
• 2006 Room for a Fourth . In: Otto Penzler (Ed.): Murder in the Rough
• 2011 Beneath the Book Tower: An Alex McKnight Short Story

Autobiography

• 2012 I Want My Life Back

Web links

• Literature by and about Steve Hamilton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of the author
• Interview with Steve Hamilton by William Kent Krueger for Mystery Readers International, March 2008 (accessed October 26, 2011)

Remarks

1. ↑ Official website of the EQMM (English)
2. ↑ cf. Interview by Mystery Ink ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated July 2, 2003 (accessed October 26, 2011)