

The prologue is heart-wrenching and the chapters thereafter pull you in like matter to a black hole. With Redemption Road Hart has taken it to another level.

His prose conjures comparisons with James Lee Burke in its sultry, melodious alchemy.


bioText: John Hart is the New York Times bestselling author of The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child, Iron House, Redemption Road, and The Hush.value: new york times bestselling thriller.value: thrillers with strong female characters.Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.Ī boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.Ī troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.Īfter thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen.īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller. Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart, comparing his writing to that of Pat Conroy, Cormac McCarthy and Scott Turow. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel.
