Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton

It's a pleasure to have another Alex McKnight book after last year's hit The Lock Artist. Alex is asked to look into a retired state patrolman's son's suicide. It is cold on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the winter. The young man was found after several days hanging from a tree facing Lake Superior's Misery Bay. The distraut father just wanted some information about why the boy committed suicide. So Alex drives to Houghton to talk to the boy's housemates. When he returns to the Soo, the boy's father, Raz, has been murdered. Teaming up with Sault Ste Marie police chief Roy Maven, they start unraveling the mystery, which goes back years to a trio of State Police Troopers who were unwitting participants in a young man's return to his abusive father.

McKnight, although he is trying to deal with his personal traumas by laying low, finds himself at the mercy of another deranged killer and falling into the arms of another lady law enforcement officer. There are plot twists a plenty and marathon drives from the Soo to Houghton to Saint Ignace to Bad Axe to Lansing chasing the good the bad and the misunderstood. Difficult to put down.

Good Reading !~