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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy discovering new authors to read from.  I forgot when I bought &quot;A Cold Day in Paradise,&quot; but I bought it not knowing anything about the author nor having even heard of him.  I do remember I read this book within 1 week of purchase, because I enjoyed it so much.  Since &quot;C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78606612">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was all set to like this book - I had just finished reading my first murder mystery (if The DaVinci Code doesn't count), which I loved.  This one looked good - it had won awards and was acclaimed by other mystery writers....but it just didn't hold my interest.  The narrator wasn't particularly bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58070778">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little Up North noir is a lot of fun. Alex McKnight is a retired City of Detroit patrol officer with a bullet lodged next to his heart and an ex-minor league ball player who has taken his disability retirement and moved up to northern Michigan to live in the summer cabins that his father built in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25978455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in the Alex McKnight series, an Edgar Award winner. Easily my favorite series, Alex is an ex-Detroit cop now living in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula trying to make it as a private detective. This book is a stunner with a plot so original it had me gasping out loud at times...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47338046">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was recently in the Uper, The Upper Pennsiula of Michigan.  I always like to purchase a book by a local author or set in that local.   The woman at the book store in St. Ignacee had not read this one, but her mother had....and liked it.  The story was OK... the protaganist was not all that appeali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57693228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Alex McKnight thought his days dealing with crime were behind him when he settled in Paradise, Michigan in the Upper Penninsula. Now, a murderer with the same killing ways as a guy named Rose, whom Alex helped convict seems to have reappeared- in Paradise.<br/>A wonderful first mystery that won bot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63796631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice, quick read - good weekend/cabin book.  Murder/mystery based in the UP (you know, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan).  If you are from the area you'll enjoy all the local place references and descriptions of the yooper characters.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first in the Alex McKnight series.A great ex-cop series, that takes place in the UP.( Upper Michigan ) Hamilton really makes you the feel that your up there in the cold winters.Well written series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is book 1 in the Alex McKnight &quot;series&quot;<br/>A re-read, which I normally dont do :) Couldnt figure it out the first time and years later couldnt.  Love mysterys that keep me guessing <br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent; Continuing character: Alex McKnight (first in series); former cop turned PI believes the man who shot him years ago is after him again, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Karen L. says: Fun! Great main character and the &quot;Paradise&quot; is Paradise, Michigan in the U.P. You'll recognize the scenery if you know the U.P Well-written, a page turner.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Solid mysteries that take place in Michigan's U.P.  The setting has kept me reading them.  The hero isn't especially likeable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You can read my thoughts <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thoughtsofjoyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/cold-day-in-paradise.html">here</a>.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for my mystery book club. We deceided to try a new author...Took me awhile to finish]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Uber cliché macho characters butting heads.  However, good mystery.  Kinda liked it. <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was awesome great mystery and fun twists!! Would recommend it. Very quick read. ]]></body>
    
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