Grist Mill Road (INTERNATIONAL EDITION) - Softcover

YATES, CHRISTOPHER J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250189926 ISBN 13: 9781250189929

Publisher: MACMILLAN USA, 2018

Synopsis

The highly anticipated new novel from the author whose debut was called "The smart summer thriller you've been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight" (NPR's All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and an Entertainment Weekly Must-List Pick

Christopher J. Yates's cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates's new book does not disappoint.

Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again--with even more devastating results.

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Review:

Praise for Christopher J. Yates's Black Chalk

-This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for. The black and harmful little book you want in your carry-on.The novel you should be reading tonight.---NPR's All Things Considered

-Yates's characters are even wittier than [Donna] Tartt's....Yates is a master of college-student psychology....[He] has achieved something new and impressive. Pick up Black Chalk.---The Washington Post

-A riveting psychological thriller...Terrifying...Read it fast.---Entertainment Weekly

-A new Stephen King, albeit with a British accent.---New York Post

-Christopher J. Yates's debut novel is a psychological thriller about the consequences of friendship gone awry.... The result is a story littered with twists that will keep you guessing until the final page.---Paste magazine

-A sardonic psychological thriller...Yates, a crossword puzzle maker himself, sets clues firmly in place, moves back and forth in time, and throws in surprises at every turn. Black Chalk is an engrossing literary guessing game.---BBC.com

-Dark, twisty fun.---New York Daily News

-Dark deeds among school cliques is a milieu that's attracted top-tier authors from Donna Tartt to Tana French, and this debut thriller is a worthy addition, with its chesslike psychological showdown.---Booklist

"Christopher Yates' Grist Mill Road is a terrific thriller. A horrid childhood crime carried secretly to adulthood, with menace lurking around the corner, and guilt hanging heavy overhead. Alfred Hitchcock would have optioned the plot in the blink of his gimlet eye. A gripping read." - Jason Matthews, Author of Red Sparrow

"An intricately crafted novel about adult lives forever changed by closely held childhood secrets. Grist Mill Road is a compulsive read that will unsettle you from its first page and surprise you until its very last." - Jung Yun, author of Shelter

Praise for Christopher J. Yates's Black Chalk

"This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for. The black and harmful little book you want in your carry-on.The novel you should be reading tonight."--NPR's All Things Considered

"Yates's characters are even wittier than [Donna] Tartt's....Yates is a master of college-student psychology....[He] has achieved something new and impressive. Pick up Black Chalk."--The Washington Post

"A riveting psychological thriller...Terrifying...Read it fast."--Entertainment Weekly

"A new Stephen King, albeit with a British accent."--New York Post

"Christopher J. Yates's debut novel is a psychological thriller about the consequences of friendship gone awry.... The result is a story littered with twists that will keep you guessing until the final page."--Paste magazine

"A sardonic psychological thriller...Yates, a crossword puzzle maker himself, sets clues firmly in place, moves back and forth in time, and throws in surprises at every turn. Black Chalk is an engrossing literary guessing game."--BBC.com

"Dark, twisty fun."--New York Daily News

"Dark deeds among school cliques is a milieu that's attracted top-tier authors from Donna Tartt to Tana French, and this debut thriller is a worthy addition, with its chesslike psychological showdown."--Booklist

"The plot is darkly, intricately layered, full of pitfalls and switchbacks, smart and funny and moving and merciless; the characters are allthat and more. This is a powerful exploration of how truth isn't a complete andimmutable thing, or a pure force of redemption: it's made up of broken shardsthat lie buried somewhere in the spaces between people, and when the jaggededges work their way to the surface, they can be devastating." --Tana French, author of the New York Times bestselling In the Woods and The Trespasser

"Dark, intense, and disturbing, Christopher Yates' Grist Mill Road begins with a shock and keeps the suspense burningpage after page. A thriller with imagination to spare. Highly recommended." --Krysten Ritter, author of Bonfire

"Christopher Yates' Grist Mill Road is aterrific thriller. A horrid childhood crime carried secretly to adulthood, with menace lurking around the corner, and guilt hanging heavy overhead. Alfred Hitchcock would have optioned the plotin the blink of his gimlet eye. Agripping read." --Jason Matthews, author of the bestselling Red Sparrow trilogy

"An intricatelycrafted novel about adult lives forever changed by closely held childhoodsecrets. Grist Mill Road is a compulsiveread that will unsettle you from its first page and surprise you until itsvery last." --Jung Yun, author of Shelter

Praise for Christopher J. Yates's Black Chalk

"This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for. The black and harmful little book you want in your carry-on.The novel you should be reading tonight."--NPR's All Things Considered

"Yates's characters are even wittier than [Donna] Tartt's....Yates is a master of college-student psychology....[He] has achieved something new and impressive. Pick up Black Chalk."--The Washington Post

"A riveting psychological thriller...Terrifying...Read it fast."--Entertainment Weekly

"A new Stephen King, albeit with a British accent."--New York Post

"Christopher J. Yates's debut novel is a psychological thriller about the consequences of friendship gone awry.... The result is a story littered with twists that will keep you guessing until the final page."--Paste magazine

"A sardonic psychological thriller...Yates, a crossword puzzle maker himself, sets clues firmly in place, moves back and forth in time, and throws in surprises at every turn. Black Chalk is an engrossing literary guessing game."--BBC.com

"Dark, twisty fun."--New York Daily News

"Dark deeds among school cliques is a milieu that's attracted top-tier authors from Donna Tartt to Tana French, and this debut thriller is a worthy addition, with its chesslike psychological showdown."--Booklist

Book Description:

A chilling thriller about three teenage friends whose lives are changed forever by a seemingly senseless crime. 'Darkly, intricately layered, full of pitfalls and switchbacks, smart and funny and moving and merciless' Tana French

About this edition

• Publisher: MACMILLAN USA
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1250189926
• ISBN 13: 9781250189929
• Binding: Paperback