John Hart

John HartLawyer turned full-time author John Hart hit immediate success with his well-reviewed, and NYT-best selling debut novel, KING OF LIES, an Edgar Award nominee.  Since then, he's won the Edgar twice(!): in 2008 for DOWN RIVER, and in 2010 for THE LAST CHILD.  

The Durham born author sets his novels in Rowan County, NC, which are empowered with Southern atmospherer.  He now lives in Greensboro, NC. 

The Last Child (Hardcover)

By John Hart
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780312359324
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Published: Minotaur Books, 5/2009

Born in Durham, now living in Greensboro, author John Hart garnered fantastic reviews & success with his debut novel, KING OF LIES, and received the Edgar Award for DOWN RIVER.  THE LAST CHILD is an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil.

Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, THE LAST CHILD leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power.

Down River (Mass Market Paperback)

By John Hart
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780312945664
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Published: Minotaur Books, 9/2008
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Adam Chase is passionate and misunderstood, a fighter. When narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, he disappears for five long years: not a clue, not a trace. Now, he's back and nobody knows why--not his family or the cops, not the women he left behind. But Adam has his reasons.

When more bodies surface, Adam must unravel a web of deceit and violence so dense it staggers the imagination. Old secrets rise, lives collapse, and more than one person crosses the brink as author Hart probes the timeless, destructive power of deception and vengeance.

The King of Lies (Mass Market Paperback)

By John Hart
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780312363758
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Published: Minotaur Books, 4/2007
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Jackson Workman Pickens-- known to most as " Work" -- mindlessly holds together his disintegrating life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife who shares their loveless marriage, and an estranged sister who bore the brunt of their childhood trauma.
And then Ezra's body is discovered.
Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does his sister, Jean. As much as Work's life was overshadowed by his domineering father, Jean's life was nearly destroyed by him. But does that make her capable of a vicious murder? 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, he fights to save his sister and clear his name-- in this poignant and thrilling anatomy of a murder and its ripple effect within a family and a community.