Another new to me author and a fairly recent discovery – Grant Jerkins.
He hails from Atlanta.
To date he has written or co-written 5 novels.
A Very Simple Crime (2010)
At the End of the Road (2011)
The Ninth Step (2012)
Done in One (2015) (with Jan Thomas)
Abnormal Man (2015)
“Grant’s fans will never forgive him.” — Penguin Group, Senior Executive Editor
At the End of the Road (2011)
From the critically
acclaimed author of A Very Simple Crime, a chilling story of a young boy coming
to grips with genuine evil.
A red dirt road on a
sweltering day. A car loses control, flips through the air. A woman crawls out,
bloody and battered, staggers toward the boy on the bike, the one she swerved
to avoid. But he runs away...
Kyle is ten in the
summer of 1976, and his world is all about secrets-secrets hidden in the maze
of cornfields, in caves, in the embers of scorched earth, behind creaking doors
and down basement stairs...and in the darkest of hearts.
But there's a
policewoman at the front door. The Paralyzed Man watches him from a neighbouring
porch. And no matter which way Kyle turns, no place seems safe anymore...
The Ninth Step (2012)
Is it true what they
say? That we're only as sick as our worst secret? Because Helen Patrice has
one. Last night, she murdered a stranger...
Helen is a recovering
alcoholic struggling through a twelve-step program. Now it's time to make
amends for a crime she got away with - a hit and run accident that killed the
wife of school teacher Edgar Woolrich. It's time to face the consequences. When
she finally gathers the courage to meet him, the ninth step begins with a lie -
the first of many as their relationship grows, and Helen knows it's far too
late to reveal the truth to a man she's come to love. Then one day, she
receives an anonymous note: Does he know you killed his wife?
Now her devastating
trail of deceit is about to lead her into the darkest place so far - that of
other people's secrets...
Thanks, Col. Good to know about another new author.
ReplyDeletePrashant, I think these will be good, but time will tell and the proof will be in the reading!
DeleteThese sound like really dark explorations of psychology, Col, among other things. Those kinds of novels can be really well done, and I hope this one is. I'll look forward to your reviews when you get to them.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have been quite well-received, so fingers crossed!
DeleteWell that's going to cheer us all up isn't it? I'll let you investigate the darkness first...
ReplyDeleteI've just been over to read his piece about his new book - it was riveting but tbh didn't make me want to read the book.
DeleteHe should have emphasized the clothes in the piece! Oh well, just me then....
DeleteI will wait and see what you think of these when you read them.
ReplyDeleteNo problem, I don't know when that will be though!
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