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 faxEade begin to crackWorks 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 novelHarts 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.
