The daughter of a preacher with whom she’s estranged, the forceful Elizabeth harbors dark secrets of her own that go beyond what happened in that abandoned house’s basement.
“A stupid crime and a simple misdirection, prison and pointless death, ripples on some foreign shore,” Elizabeth contemplates. “Redemption Road” spins on emotionally complicated relationships and realistic conspiracies that affect each character’s life and choices. Hart ties the two plot threads in a gripping, believable story that doesn’t rest until the last sentence. The local polices target Adrian when another woman is murdered following his release. Through the years, Elizabeth and her parents had treated Gideon like a family member. Elizabeth never believed Adrian was guilty, remaining connected to him because of an incident when she was a teen. Meanwhile, former police officer Adrian Wall’s first day of parole ends with him being wounded by Gideon Strange, the teenage son of the woman he served 13 years in prison for murdering. Channing, who is from a wealthy family, and Elizabeth are both white the two assailants - caught in the act of assaulting the teen - are both black. The case became a political hand grenade. While rescuing kidnapped teenager Channing Shore, Elizabeth killed the two men who were sexually assaulting the teen in a desolate house. It marks a new high point in the writing of this bestselling master of the literary thriller.Deeply troubled North Carolina police detective Elizabeth Black prowls the streets of her hometown, wondering if she will be charged with murder. It is not the first to be found.īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, brilliantly evoking an America of small towns and remote landscapes, of the abandoned, the derelict and the desperate, this is a novel so chillingly suspenseful and a story so full of twists and turns that you simply cannot stop reading. But that is the least of Adrian's problems.Īnd deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen.
In the very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to avenge the death of his mother. And she's not the only one.Īdrian Wall is finally free after thirteen years of torture and abuse. But she's also a cop with a history, a woman with a secret. She is a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers dead.
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