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Redemption Road

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Written by John Hart and narrated by Scott Shepherd, this audiobook comes with a strong recommendation because of its compellingly written female characters. The story is about Elizabeth Black, a cop with 13 years experience, who goes to rescue an 18-year-old girl but, when she…
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Redemption Road

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Written by John Hart, narrated by Scott Shepherd — You’d never guess this crime thriller is award-winning author John Hart’s first novel with a female protagonist. He writes from her point of view compellingly and expertly slips himself into her shoes where gender perspective makes…
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This Dark Road to Mercy

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Cash’s first novel, A Land More Kind Than Home was widely admired. Here he tells a tale which is equally gripping and endearing. Easter Quillby is a girl on the verge of womanhood, and she and her younger sister are in care. Their mother is…
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Interview: Wiley Cash

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Wiley Cash is a native of North Carolina who now lives in West Virginia. His debut novel was A Land More Kind Than Home, where he dealt with religious obsession, childhood, disability, and a certain kind of rural deprivation. The book was enthusiastically received by…
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A Land More Kind Than Home

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Chosen by David Prestidge as his top crime book of 2013, A Land More Kind Than home was a debut novel for Wiley Cash. There is crime, and crime of the darkest kind, but for atmosphere, a sense of brooding evil disguised as piety, and…
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