

This is Redemption Road.īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller. 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… 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. This is Redemption Road.Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, brilliantly evoking an America of small towns and remote landscapes, of the abandoned. It marks a new high point in the writing of this bestselling master of the literary thriller.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.

It is not the first to be found.īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, brilliantly evoking an America of small towns and remote landscapes, of the abandoned, the derelict and the desperate, this is a novel so chillingly suspenseful and a story so full of twists and turns that you simply cannot stop reading. But that is the least of Adrian’s problems.Īnd deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. Redemption Road furthers Hart’s reputation as a masterful thriller writer by demonstrating his ability to cultivate suspense, narrative twists, and dark crimes.

In the very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to avenge the death of his mother. Jason French has just returned to Charleston, South Carolina. A family melodrama at first appears to be the center of Hart’s latest, a diffuse tale that lacks the drive of his other works. 2, 2021 A dishonorably discharged Marine returns home, throwing his family into chaos. And she’s not the only one.Īdrian Wall is finally free after thirteen years of torture and abuse. READ REVIEW 1 THE UNWILLING by John Hart RELEASE DATE: Feb. But she’s also a cop with a history, a woman with a secret. She is a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers dead.
