A Scandal of the Particular von Steve Hamilton

HYMAN KAZAN HAS REGRETS. We all do. A struggling legal career, an unfulfilled, passionate girlfriend. But the situation is about to get worse, much worse, when the body of a young man from Scotland is found outside of a safe injection site in downtown Vancouver. The dark, rainy streets of the Lower Mainland are about to explode when it is discovered that this corpse and Kazan's girlfriend shared the same lover, Judge Craig Donald Smith. As his world begins to crumble, Kazan finds himself with one last chance to find truth and happiness. Then he finds himself alone with his demons and a loaded handgun, in a struggle to find justice, ethics, and integrity. But does he have the courage?

Steve Hamilton is a former prosecutor and criminologist. His newest novel, A Scandal of the Particular, presents the unusual scenes behind the lawyers and judges, and takes readers inside the arresting forces of the criminal justice system. Behind every crime lies a cast of characters waiting to be disovered and exposed. Hamilton currently lives in Guelph, Ontario.