John Hart
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The King of Lies: A Novel
John Hart
- 2007 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2007 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2007 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 2007 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 24.57
John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack.
Work’s troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.
Down River: A Novel
John Hart
Adam Chase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred thin. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood—a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he’s ever known. For five long years he disappears. Now he’s back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind.
But Adam has his reasons.
Within hours of his return, he is beaten and accosted, confronted by his family and the women he still holds dear. When bodies start turning up, the small town rises against him and Adam again finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life.
