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Overview

Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel

Michael is no ordinary young man. Mute since a childhood tragedy, at age eighteen he discovers that he possesses a skill he would never have expected. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe…he can open them all.

It's a talent that will make Michael a hot commodity with the wrong people, and whether he likes it or not, push him closer to a life of crime. Until one day, when he finally sees his chance to escape, and decides to risk everything to return home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.

Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel

Winner of the 2011 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award

Editorial Reviews

Fiona Zublin
Hamilton…understands what's truly scary, what's truly suspenseful…While the structure of the book seems at first as simple as its aggressively unstylish prose, it shifts quickly from a teenage love story to a heist-gone-wrong. The racing conclusion feels inevitable but entirely fresh.
—The Washington Post
Marilyn Stasio
The enthralling narrative voice you hear in Steve Hamilton's imaginative crime novel…wants you to know…he's telling this story in order to find his voice because he stopped speaking years ago, in 1990, when he was 8 years old…As coming-of-age novels go, this one is too good for words.
—The New York Times
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Publishers Weekly
At the start of this offbeat thriller from Edgar-winner Hamilton (A Stolen Season and six other titles in the Alex McKnight PI series), the book’s intriguing narrator, Mike (aka the Golden Boy, the Young Ghost, the Lock Artist, etc.), confesses that a traumatic experience at age eight left him unable to speak and that he has been in prison for nine years. His strange odyssey, which hops around in time, takes Mike and his twin talents, art and lock breaking, from his Michigan home to both coasts while in thrall to a mysterious man in Detroit whom he doesn’t dare cross. Propelled by an aching desire to recover his voice, Mike has brushes with the law, flirts with romance and makes alliances with criminals, from rank amateurs to consummate professionals. Along the way, Hamilton drops tantalizing clues about Mike’s troubled past and his uncertain future. Readers will hope to hear more from Mike. 75,000 first printing; author tour. (Jan.)
Kirkus Reviews
A traumatized boy grows into a world-class safecracker. Every gangster knows that a boxman is the guy who opens boxes (safes) with precious things in them. Michael Smith's acquaintances know that he's an artist among boxmen, someone who, like more conventional artists, is at a loss to explicate the mysteries-partly because he doesn't talk. When he was eight, Michael states on the first page, a headline-grabbing horror changed his life forever, setting him on his less-traveled path. He still can't tell us about it, "but maybe one of these days as I'm writing, I'll get to . . . that day in June of 1990." Nine years later, however, 17-year-old Michael suddenly realizes that he can unlock just about anything. This skill, of course, makes him valuable to a wide range of no-goods, some of them just greedy, others downright predatory. But it also brings him to Amelia, with whom he falls irrevocably in love. In order to protect her from dangers more imagined than real, hopelessly romantic Michael is drawn into a multimillion-dollar con game as deadly as it is elaborate. Isolated, deeply enmeshed and mind-numbingly scared, Michael will be hard-pressed to feel his way toward solving a perilous, no-exit, locked-box mystery. Readers may tire of lock lore a bit earlier than Hamilton (Night Work, 2007, etc.), but sharp prose and a strong cast should keep them in line. First printing of 75,000

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312696955
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 3/1/2011
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 52,359
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Steve Hamilton
Steve Hamilton

STEVE HAMILTON’s first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest before becoming a USA Today Bestseller and winning both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel.  His standalone novel The Lock Artist was named a New York Times Notable Book, was given an Alex Award by the American Library Association, and then went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel, making Steve Hamilton only the second author (after Ross Thomas) to win Edgars for both Best First Novel and Best Novel.  He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, and now he lives in Cottekill, New York with his wife and their two children.

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The Lock Artist

A Novel
By Hamilton, Steve

Minotaur Books

Copyright © 2010 Hamilton, Steve
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780312380427

One

Locked Up Tight for Another Day

You may remember me. Think back. The summer of 1990. I know that’s a while ago, but the wire services picked up the story and I was in every newspaper in the country. Even if you didn’t read the story, you probably heard about me. From one of your neighbors, somebody you worked with, or if you’re younger, from somebody at school. They called me "the Miracle Boy." A few other names, too, names thought up by copy editors or newscasters trying to outdo one another. I saw "Boy Wonder" in one of the old clippings. "Terror Tyke," that was another one, even though I was eight years old at the time. But it was the Miracle Boy that stuck.

I stayed in the news for two or three days, but even when the cameras and the reporters moved on to something else, mine was the kind of story that stuck with you. You felt bad for me. How could you not? If you had young kids of your own back then, you held them a little tighter. If you were a kid yourself, you didn’t sleep right for a week.

In the end, all you could do was wish me well. You hoped that I had found a new life somewhere. You hoped that because I was so young, somehow this would have protected me, made it not so horrible. That I’d be able to get over it, maybe even put the wholething behind me. Children being so adaptable and flexible and durable, in ways that adults could never be. That whole business. It’s what you hoped, anyway, if you even took the time to think about me the real person and not just the young face in the news story.

People sent me cards and letters back then. A few of them had drawings made by children. Wishing me well. Wishing me a happy future. Some people even tried to visit me at my new home. Apparently, they’d come looking for me in Milford, Michigan, thinking they could just stop anybody on the street and ask where to find me. For what reason, exactly? I guess they thought I must have some kind of special powers to have lived through that day in June. What those powers might be, or what these people thought I could do for them, I couldn’t even imagine.

In the years since then, what happened? I grew up. I came to believe in love at first sight. I tried my hand at a few things, and if I was any good at it, that meant it had to be either totally useless or else totally against the law. That goes a long way toward explaining why I’m wearing this stylish orange jumpsuit right now, and why I’ve been wearing it every single day for the past nine years.

I don’t think it’s doing me any good to be here. Me or anybody else. It’s kind of ironic, though, that the worst thing I ever did, on paper at least, was the one thing I don’t regret. Not at all.

In the meantime, as long as I’m here, I figure what the hell, I’ll take a look back at everything. I’ll write it all down. Which, if I’m going to do it, is really the only way I can tell the story. I have no other choice, because as you may or may not know, in all the things I’ve done in the past years, there’s one particular thing I haven’t done. I haven’t spoken one single word out loud.

That’s a whole story in itself, of course. This thing that has kept me silent for all of these years. Locked up here inside me, ever since that day. I cannot let go of it. So I cannot speak. I cannot make a sound.

Here, though, on the page . . . it can be like we’re sitting together at a bar somewhere, just you and me, having a long talk. Yeah, I like that. You and me sitting at a bar, just talking. Or rather me talking and you listening. What a switch that would be. I mean, you’d really be listening. Because I’ve noticed how most people don’t know how to listen. Believe me. Most of the time they’re just waiting for the other person to shut up so they can start talking again. But you . . . hell, you’re just as good a listener as I am. You’re sitting there, hanging on every word I say. When I get to the bad parts, you hang in there with me and you let me get it out. You don’t judge me right off the bat. I’m not saying you’re going to forgive everything. I sure as hell don’t forgive it all myself. But at least you’ll be willing to hear me out, and in the end to try to understand me. That’s all I can ask, right?

Problem is, where do I begin? If I go right to the sob story, it’ll feel like I’m already trying to excuse everything I did. If I go to the hardcore stuff first, you’ll think I’m some sort of born criminal. You’ll write me off before I get the chance to make my case.

So maybe I’ll kind of skip around, if you don’t mind. How the first real jobs I was involved with went down. How it felt to be growing up as the Miracle Boy. How it all came together that one summer. How I met Amelia. How I found my unforgivable talent. How I got myself heading down the wrong road. Maybe you’ll look at that and decide that I didn’t have much choice. Maybe you’ll decide that you would have done exactly the same thing.

The one thing I can’t do is start off on that day in June of 1990. I can’t go there yet. No matter how hard other people have tried to convince me, and believe me, there were a lot of them and they tried pretty damned hard . . . I can’t start there because I already feel claustrophobic enough in here. Some days it’s all I can do to keep breathing. But maybe one of these days as I’m writing, I’ll get to it and I’ll think to myself, okay, today’s the day. Today you can face it. No warm-up needed. Just go back to that day and let it fly. You’re eight years old. You hear the sound outside the door. And—

Damn, this is even harder than I thought.

I had to take a little break, get up and walk around a little bit, which around here isn’t very far. I left the cell and walked down through the common area, used the main bathroom and brushed my teeth. There was a new guy in there, someone who doesn’t know anything about me yet. When he said hey to me, I knew I had to be careful. Not answering people might be considered rude on the outside. In here, it could be taken as disrespect. If I were in a really bad place, I’d probably be dead by now. Even in here, in this place, it’s a constant challenge for me.

I did what I usually do. Two fingers of my right hand pointing to my throat, then a slashing motion. No words coming out of here, pal. No disrespect intended. I obviously made it back alive because I’m still writing.

So hang on, because this is my story if you’re ready for it. I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me.

But you can call me Mike.

Excerpted from The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton.
Copyright © 2009 by Steve Hamilton.
Published in January 2010 by Minotaur Books.
All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.



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  • Posted December 13, 2009

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    A good locked "box" mystery

    Although he is silent and has been mute since a traumatic incident back in 1990 when he was eight, Mike Smith has become the "Golden Boy" box man as he can open any safe. He realized his skill as a proficient box man when he was seventeen years old. Since his ability as the Lock Artist of choice he has been in demand by criminals who need his talent.

    Mike has spent nine years in prison for his artistic safe breaking skills. However even as his prime client in Detroit must never be angered or else, Mike meets and falls in love with Amelia. A throwback to a gentler romantic time, Mike vows to keep his beloved safe from perils he imagines that lead him into a deadly multimillion-dollar con that requires him to escape a locked box murder.

    As Alex McKnight takes a winter's break, fans will enjoy Mike Smith's biographical fictional mystery; as he relates his tale to an enthralled audience. The story line is fast-paced especially after Mike moves past lock breaking 101 and 102 as the antihero begins to get into deep trouble with his mob peers after falling in love. Fans will relish his escapades as ironically he must extract himself from a locked "box" mystery.

    Harriet Klausner

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 29, 2011

    Disappointed

    It is true that the story is well written and draws you in. However, I have never read a book that used the 'F' word so many times. Good story, but could have done without the language and the gore.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2012

    Draco

    Smiles. But twhat will u we th time cones?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 23, 2012

    Skylar

    Srry what? I cant understand ur post

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  • Posted April 3, 2012

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    This is a book that I grew to love. I thought it was a bit slow

    This is a book that I grew to love. I thought it was a bit slow in the beginning, not really catching my attention but after I hit a certain point I had to know what happens next: How he ended up where he did, what horrible event caused him to never speak again and of course everything Amelia! The book kept me guessing. I thought I figured it out and where it was going but I was so very wrong. I was revoltingly pleased with the ending. The author played with my emotions on this one. Well written, great read. I recommend to all.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 3, 2011

    Excellent writing: characters, plot

    Intrically plotted, well written. Ending is full of hope. I would love for this to be a series. I want to read Mike's next chapters in his life.

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  • Posted November 2, 2011

    The 2011 Edgar Award for The Lock Artist, too much

    I chose to read this book because it got the 2011 Edgar Award of the mystery writers of America.
    The plot is fast paced, engaging and the author did a big job to shape his particular main character, Michael
    He is a gifted boy who can make artistical drawings and open every sort of locks and safeboxes, but keeps everything to himself, and is unable to utter a word, all of this as a consequence of a serious trauma he suffered when he was a child (part of the mystery), With the exception of the precedent, all the rest of the features of this story did not convinced me. Throughout all the book, Michael who is in jail serving time, tells the story of his life (almost a bio) in first person depicting two stages (early and more recent) every other chapter to the point when one catches up with the other near the ending, giving life to lots of sketchy characters and selected contrived events most of them similar. There are suspenseful actions but most of them do not fall out of the ordinary stuff you can find in other books of the same genre.
    Overall, what this book lacks is "the magic" to make it stand out from the pack to deserve such important award.
    Keep in mind my review is judging the book from the award deserving viewpoint. What you expect knowing such a fact and what you have actually got in exchange.

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  • Posted October 31, 2011

    My intro to Hamilton

    I'd never heard of Steve Hamilton when I picked up this novel. The premise was intriguing and I was hooked by the writing style very quickly. It can be hard to find anything different and this book was, happily so. I went back to read his other books, the Alex McKnight series, and ending up having more admiration for The Lock Artist. Why? A writer who change change his voice and come up with a new feel to his work is rare. IMHO, this shift often makes for better work when they return to a previous character. Hamilton is not gimmicky, which I highly respect. His plots built gently with an organic logic. Give him a try, you'll be glad you did!

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  • Posted October 23, 2011

    Unique and entertaining

    Really a good story-the main character breaks your heart

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2011

    Very good read!

    An unusual premise with the main character mute, and a very non-linear way of telling the story. You need to pay attention as it skips between different years and locations, but once you get into it, you really are along for the ride. There is also a coming-of-age aspect which is an added attraction, and a sense of the unique ways people influence our development. Enjoy and recommend to others.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2011

    Highly recommended.

    We enjoyed the author's unique story and his ability to give a protagonist, who does not speak at all, such a compelling voice. It was a disturbing and fascinating look into the parallel world of crime and criminals.

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  • Posted September 12, 2011

    Great story, excellent piece of work!

    ?..& I'm not even finished yet! No regrets if you jump into this one!

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  • Posted August 2, 2011

    Awesome

    What a great story. Stayed up all night to finish it. Definitly recommended!!

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  • Posted June 17, 2011

    great book

    The story draws you in and you want to know what will happen next. The main character is mute because of childhood trauma so you imagine some terrible scenario but when you'll finnaly find out what happened to him it's even worse.
    I recommend it very much!

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  • Posted June 17, 2011

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    Just wow

    Michael is easily one of my top two favorite characters of all time. Amazing book

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  • Posted June 11, 2011

    Great Read

    Very enjoyable book. Unique story, interesting and well-developed characters. Hamilton's protagonist makes a promise towards the beginning about later revealing something BIG and while the pay-off is very satisfying, the journey there is just as good.

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  • Posted May 24, 2011

    Good!

    Really engaging, I had some trouble following the dates, need to read chapter titles!

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  • Posted April 6, 2011

    A refreshing and original story

    I don't know what let me to buy The Lock Artist, but I am glad I did. From the first page to the last, Mr. Hamilton weaves a tale that envelops the reader completely. The characters and plot were original, and though you knew it would not end well for the hero, you had to know why. Action, Drama, Romance...this page turner has it all.

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  • Posted February 10, 2011

    Loved It!!

    I read this book because it was nominated for an Edgar Award. The book was amazing. I cannot wait to check out other books by this author. Read it...you won't be disappointed!

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  • Posted December 9, 2010

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    Locked Me Up

    This is a very enjoyable tale told from a unique perspective. One learns a lot about the art of lock-picking and safe-cracking,none of which I will remember, but I won't forget Michael, the speechless lad who tells the tale in his own way, full of colorful characters, well-drawn. I would have preferred the chronological telling of the story, but it's hard to argue with what works, and works well in this case. I would like to be there when Michael finally speaks to Amelia.

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