Publisher's Synopsis
"...crisp, clear writing, wily colourful characters...an impressive debut." PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "Brooding, caustic, well-plotted and tightly-written..." DETROIT FREE PRESS Apart from the bullet lodged close to his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, the killer they convicted in their last case together, has been in the state penitentiary for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cosy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose's unmistakable trademarks suddenly emerges. With Rose locked away, who else would know the intimate details of the old murders - not to mention the signature blood-red rose left on his doorstep?
