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Riddle Island
- An Alex McKnight Short Story
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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When the body of a young man is pulled from a submerged car in Roque Harbor, rookie Game Warden Mike Bowditch is shocked when the man’s driver’s license identifies him as none other than...Mike Bowditch. For weeks, Mike and his colleagues have been fielding reports of a man terrorizing the locals while posing as a game warden, wielding a plastic pin-on badge and claiming to be “Warden Bowditch”. Who is the imposter, and how did he end up dead in the bottom of a harbor? Mike must uncover the truth in order to clear his own name.
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Publisher's Summary
On the afternoon of July 30, 1975, former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa left the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, never to be seen again. Over 200 FBI agents have been working the case in the 44 years since that day - digging up end zones, driveways, hay fields, and horse farms - and yet Hoffa’s body has never been found.
In this story by two-time Edgar Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Steve Hamilton, Alex McKnight - the former Detroit cop and protagonist of 11 critically acclaimed novels that have sold over a million copies - is sitting at the rail in the Glasgow Inn when a local old-timer tells him an unusual story. It’s the kind of small-town mystery that won’t let Alex sleep at night, but when he goes hunting for answers, he stumbles upon the biggest surprise of his life.
Forty-four years later, the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa is still the most notorious open case in American crime history....
And Alex McKnight is about to solve it.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-03-21
I love Alex Mcknight series!
Loved the performance and short story. Thanks to Steve Hamilton for his brilliant writing! i wish they would make a series or movie. I can't wait for the next book!
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- Raymond
- 03-02-21
At last a Steve Hamiltot / Alex McKnight story, if only a short one
A welcome return from a great artist. It was wonderful to read a real Steve Hamilton again, if a short one