Since her involvement as a police officer in Gabriel's mother's murder investigation, Elizabeth Black has remained close to the boy despite the fact that she has never been sure that Adrian Wall was really guilty. Wall, a former police officer, bears mental and physical scars as a result of his time inside, and is about to be released on parole. Then there is Gabriel, a teenager who steals his father's gun and sneaks out into the night to confront Adrian Wall, the man convicted of murdering his mother. Black is on the hunt for a serial killer who strangles victims and leaves their bodies draped in white linen on the altar of a church.
This is John Hart's first novel since Iron Hill (2011), a five-year publication gap (see ' Beyond the Book') from a best-selling author, who is also the only writer to win Edgar Awards for consecutive novels – Down River (2007) and The Last Child (2009).įrom the opening scene, Redemption Road brings an array of damaged, complex characters to life. Themes of loyalty, family, honesty and trust play out strongly in Redemption Road, which tells the story of North Carolina police detective Elizabeth Black. This is Redemption Road.Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.A cop with challenges in her past and present must solve a case that upends her gut instincts about right and wrong. After 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… This is a town on the brink. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet. 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.
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