In this blistering return to ChrisOffutt?s acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before asfamilial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everythinghe lovesMaster storyteller and award-winning author Chris Offutt?s latest book, Codeof the Hills, is a dark, witty, and propulsive thriller of murder andsecrets in a town where little is as it seems.Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He?d planned to touch downbriefly before heading to France, marking the end to his twenty-year Armycareer. In Rocksalt, his sister Linda the sheriff is investigating the murderof Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack. Afteranother body is found, Linda and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver wonder if thetwo murders are related. Linda steps into harm?s way just as a third body turnsup and Mick ends up being deputized again, uncovering evidence of illegalcockfighting, and trying to connect all the crimes.An explosive return to the mayhem of the
Author : Chris Offutt
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Grove Press
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ISBN-10 : 9780802161918
ISBN-13 : 9780802161918