Michael crée des thrillers captivants ancrés dans les quartiers authentiques de Chicago où il a grandi. Sa série de détectives privés plonge les lecteurs au cœur d'enquêtes âpres, portée par une prose atmosphérique et une perspicacité aigüe des personnages. Il saisit magistralement l'essence des environnements urbains, faisant de la ville elle-même un élément central du récit. Au-delà de la fiction, Michael est une voix respectée dans la critique littéraire et le journalisme, apportant une perspective réfléchie à son œuvre.
Having spent eight years on death row for a crime he didn't commit, Franky Dast now helps others in the same situation. But when he learns that Bill Higby, the detective whose testimony helped convict him, is facing his own murder charge, Franky must decide whether to help the man he loathes, the man who remains convinced of Franky's guilt.
Homicide detective Daniel Turner was never able to forget the unsolved case: the disappearance of Amon Jakobsen 18 years ago. Now he has returned to the isolated house on Black Hammock Island following reports of a disturbance. Is this his chance to find out what really happened to Amon - and will he be in time to stop history repeating itself?
Summoned to identify the trussed-up, naked body of a woman found amongst a pile of garbage on Blue Avenue, Florida businessman William Byrd recognizes the victim as Belinda Mabry, the girl with whom he spent a passionate summer 25 years before. Determined to find out what happened to the woman he once loved, Byrd must revisit his own troubled past.