The King of Lies - Softcover

Hart, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312677375 ISBN 13: 9780312677374

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.

Praise for King of Lies
"The King of Lies moves and reads like a book on fire." ---Pat Conroy

"Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding." --New York Times

"[An] ambitious debut thriller...a gripping performance." --People Magazine
"Compares favorably to the best of Scott Turow" --Publishers Weekly (starred)

"A striking new talent." --Entertainment Weekly

About this title

Review:

'Smart and swift-moving... Hart knows his way around the courtrooms and jailhouses...the way that Grisham and Turow do' (Pat Conroy)

'Akin to the close-range gut-roiling atmosphere summoned by the legal thrillers of Scott Turow' (New York Times)

'Presumed Innocent meets Fatal Attraction. Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard...' (Entertainment Weekly)

'Nobody does hate like Southerners, and you'll find plenty of it in the characters slithering through this well-spun murder mystery... a gripping performance' (People magazine)

'A fast-paced mystery debut' (Wall Street Journal)

John Hart has hit a home run with his first novel, The King Of Lies, which has garnered universal and well-deserved rave reviews (Deadly Pleasures)

A lovely writing style that's full-bodied and lyrical (Deadly Pleasures)

Book Description:

'Presumed Innocent meets Fatal Attraction... Hart's prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard...' - Entertainment Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312677375
• ISBN 13: 9780312677374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464