The King of Lies
by John Hart
List Price: $14.99
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312677374
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
From the masterful New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Child and Down River, comes this tour de force of murder and the dark ripples it sends through a man, his family and community.
Jackson Workman Pickens --- known to most as Work --- mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged by the shared past they’ve endured.
And then Ezra’s body is discovered.
Set to inherit his father’s fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does Jean. Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with a power-hungry detective, a string of damning evidence, and the ugly rumors that swirl within his small, moneyed Southern town. Desperate for the redemption that has eluded him for so many years and stripped of everything he once valued, Work fights to save his sister, clear his name, and regain the love of the woman to whom he gave his heart so many years before.
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"Hart is a fine stylist, turning phrases with a panache that recalls Raymond Chandler."
— Booklist (starred)
"The writing is beautiful and the story is gripping."
— Library Journal (started)
"A top-notch debut, Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard."
— Entertainment Weekly (Grade A)
"Hart's stunning debut, an exceptionally deep and complex mystery thriller, compares favorably to the best of Scott Turow."
— Publishers Weekly (starred)
"[An] ambitious debut thriller…a gripping performance."
— People Magazine
"Hart’s work invokes the spirit of the best of southern literature."
— Bookreporter
"This is a first novel that lunges off the page, just grabs the reader by the throat and won't let go."
— Booklist (Starred)
"If you value Harper Lee, James Lee Burke, Truman Capote, and Michael Malone… it’s time to add John Hart to your bookshelves."
— Otto Penzler, New York Sun
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