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A review by lucyrider
Redemption Road by John Hart
4.0
Redemption Road - John Hart
This was another book club recommedation from my South Milford Bookclub and annoyingly even though I bought it in good time and actually when I got down to it progressed quite quickly through it, I was distracted by the Menopausing book from Davina and so didn't go to the discussion.
I have mostly listened to crime fiction on audible, but have read a lot of cosy crime such as Richard Osman's books, this was very different and whilst it was chunky at 450 pages it was an easier read than I'd expected.
Synopsis from Goodreads
"Now at NYT Besteller
Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. After five years, John Hart is back.
Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart, comparing his writing to that of Pat Conroy, Cormac McCarthy and Scott Turow. Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.
Imagine:
A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.
A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.
After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen…
This is a town on the brink.
This is Redemption Road.
Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller."
I liked the main protagonist Elizabeth who was a detective with a troubled past, although some might think she was a bit too involved with some of the other characters where it felt at very least it would be a safeguarding issue. It was hard to place when exactly the book was set, which was quite a positive as you could see it being fairly realistic across around 20 years or so.
The ending was satisfying, but I did have a feeling that I knew "whodunnit" earlier on than I'd have liked, I almost wanted to be proved wrong, rather than guessing.
4 out of 5 stars as it made me crack on through the book even though I was initially initimidated by the size and the initial chapters were a bit harder to get going as I learned all the different detective names!
This was another book club recommedation from my South Milford Bookclub and annoyingly even though I bought it in good time and actually when I got down to it progressed quite quickly through it, I was distracted by the Menopausing book from Davina and so didn't go to the discussion.
I have mostly listened to crime fiction on audible, but have read a lot of cosy crime such as Richard Osman's books, this was very different and whilst it was chunky at 450 pages it was an easier read than I'd expected.
Synopsis from Goodreads
"Now at NYT Besteller
Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. After five years, John Hart is back.
Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart, comparing his writing to that of Pat Conroy, Cormac McCarthy and Scott Turow. Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.
Imagine:
A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.
A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.
After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen…
This is a town on the brink.
This is Redemption Road.
Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller."
I liked the main protagonist Elizabeth who was a detective with a troubled past, although some might think she was a bit too involved with some of the other characters where it felt at very least it would be a safeguarding issue. It was hard to place when exactly the book was set, which was quite a positive as you could see it being fairly realistic across around 20 years or so.
The ending was satisfying, but I did have a feeling that I knew "whodunnit" earlier on than I'd have liked, I almost wanted to be proved wrong, rather than guessing.
4 out of 5 stars as it made me crack on through the book even though I was initially initimidated by the size and the initial chapters were a bit harder to get going as I learned all the different detective names!