Michael crea thriller avvincenti ambientati negli autentici quartieri di Chicago dove è cresciuto. La sua serie di detective privati immerge i lettori nel cuore di indagini crude, guidate da una prosa atmosferica e da un'acuta intuizione dei personaggi. Cattura magistralmente l'essenza degli ambienti urbani, rendendo la città stessa un elemento centrale della narrazione. Oltre alla narrativa, Michael è una voce rispettata nella critica letteraria e nel giornalismo, portando una prospettiva ponderata al suo lavoro.
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.