When Johnny comes home to the town of Oakridge, he has one thing on his mind: putting right a terrible mistake he made eight years ago. Revisiting the past, though, is a dark and dangerous game in small town America. When a careless sexual episode leads to the suicide of the town's first lady, Johnny finds himself the target of a revenge campaign that threatens to tear apart the fragile world he's built with his brain-damaged brother and his depressive girlfriend. Matthew Stokoe is the groundbreaking author of Cows and High Life.
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?Like the best noir, Empty Mile is rife with desire, desperation, and despair. Matthew Stokoe’s people have dubious motives, ugly secrets, crushing guilt, and suffer dire consequences. But they’re redeemed by the rarest gold in contemporary crime fiction--an author’s genuine empathy."
--Eddie Muller, author of Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
?No point in turning up the ?brightness’ on your set. Empty Mile is a failed-brakes careen of guilt and payback, a Lynchian labyrinth of obsession, secrets, and revenge in small-town America.”
--Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black
?The tension builds unbearably in this magnificent ?Sierras Noir’ novel. Stokoe writes damaged people worthy of James M. Cain and Jim Thompson. His star-crossed lovers and broken families will steal your heart, even as Stokoe drives the knife home. I couldn’t stop reading.”
Denise Hamilton, author of the best-selling Eve Diamond series
?Matthew Stokoe’s Empty Mile exemplifies everything that makes good noir so gut-strumming. Surprising, edgy, dangerous, nihilistic, and totally bad-ass.”
--Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season
Matthew Stokoe was born in England grew up in Australia. Since then, he has lived in a number of places in between. He is the author of the groundbreaking novels Cows and High Life, and presently lives in Sydney, Australia.
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