A review by captyar
The King of Lies by John Hart

3.0

My mom recommended this writer. It was ok, I'm not a huge fan of law stories. The prose is good and it finally picked up halfway through. I found the lead to be totally unlikeable, the locations squalid and the characters grotesque. Not sure what it is, some legacy of Faulkner or something but why is every southern writer obsessed with wrist slittingly depressing characters and topics, or is the south really such a crappy place to live full of malevolent people? I'll probably not read any more of this writers fiction.