Genre: Book
Grade: A-
Notable People: John Hart
Title: Redemption Road
Review: Quite the find. Hart is the only two-time winner of the Edgar Award for Best novel, and my daughter got me this one of his works for Christmas. This is humdinger of a story: serial killing, corrupt police and prison officials, God and lost souls. The protagonist character, a woman detective in North Carolina, Elizabeth Black confronts her troubled past along with a former detective imprisoned for a grisly murder for thirteen years. Wonderful characters, gripping writing, great sense of place. Thought it was about 100 pages to long (it’s a behemoth), but one of the best epilogues to a novel I have read. Good read for our troubled times…..very distracting..