Running from the Dead

“[A] brilliantly woven crime novel … The realistic, multidimensional characters evolve, as do their relationships with one another. With any luck, Jones will be back for an encore.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review“Canadian novelist Knowles is a strong writer, with a real sense of what makes bad people tick and what makes good people risk their lives to catch the bad ones. His prose style is top-notch, too — lean, hard-edged, and brutally honest when it needs to be. As stories of redemption go, this one is particularly interesting … A must-read crime novel from a writer who deserves to be on the radar screens of a lot more genre readers.” — Booklist, starred review“The noir world evoked by Knowles’ brutally clipped prose is so dark that the smallest victories seem like miracles.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review“As we discovered in his most recent crime novel, Tin Men, Mike Knowles does noir really, really well. Running From the Dead is even better. It’s a smart, serious, carefully crafted gem that belongs in the rarified company of writers such as Dennis Lehane and John Sandford.” — Globe and Mail“The best private detective novel I’ve read in some time … This one deserves an award.” — Bay Observer“Readers in search of an uncompromising chronicle of our troubled times, exquisitely told, will find much to admire in Knowles’ new book, and will, I suspect, be drawn afterward to his earlier writing.” — The Rap Sheet“Mike Knowles’ Running from the Dead is Sam Spade without the cigarettes, Mike Hammer without the misogyny and a humdinger of a read.” — Winnipeg Free Press“It may have taken a while to get hold of a Mike Knowles crime novel — but now I’ll be watching hard for more.” — Kingdom Books

Mike Knowles lives in Hamilton with his wife, children, and dog. He has written seven previous novels: Darwin’s Nightmare, Grinder, In Plain Sight, Never Play Another Man’s Game, The Buffalo Job, Rocks Beat Paper, and Tin Men.

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