The Boston Globe, September 30th, 2007
On Crime Instead of the mayhem and pyrotechnics that have become de rigueur for the opening chapter of today's thrillers, Steve Hamilton's "Night Work" delivers a nuanced portrait of Joe Trumbull as he tapes his hands and gazes out the window at a full moon that he knows brings "nothing but trouble." He's about to go on a blind date, his first since his fiancee was murdered. He beats back anxiety by jumping rope and working the speed bag at a seedy gym in what was once a bus station. His room-and-a-half apartment, up a rickety flight of stairs, was once the bus station office. Instead of the u...
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