Hamilton's second Alex McKnight novel, "Winter of the Wolf Moon" (2000), was named one of the year's Notable Books by "The New York Times Book Review" and received a starred review from "Publishers Weekly", as did his next three novels: "The Hunting Wind", "North of Nowhere" and "Blood Is the Sky" (which won the 2004 Gumshoe Award). To date, ten books and one short story in the Alex McKnight series have been published and they have been translated into 12 languages.