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epub | 8.79 MB | English| Isbn:9781429905268 | Author: John Hart | Year: 2010
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Quote: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.Category:Awards, Mystery & Thrillers, Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Detective Fiction, Occupations - Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Fiction - Lawyers, Lawyers - Fiction, Legal Thrillers, 2007 Gumshoe Award->Best First Novel, Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2006
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.
Hart's mastery of prose and plot belie his newcomer status as he explores the true heart of a man. An illuminating anatomy of a murder and the ripple effect it produces within a family and a community, The King of Lies is a stunning debut.
Now with an excerpt from John Hart's next book The Hush, available February 2018.