Definitely wasn’t expecting this to end the way it did. This book kept me interested and I didn’t want to put it down
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This is an exceptionally well written fast paced story that you will find impossible to put down. This mystery involves family secrets, murder and mayhem in a southern town. This was my first John Hart novel and won"t be my last.
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...Mistakes usually leave that ripple, sometimes deep, sometime shallow, that flow outward in astonishing ways. If I could give this author 10 stars i would. His book is about a particular family, but I've been a member of a family with members that I saw in the pages of his book. Adam Chase leaves home under a cloud of suspicion, stays away five years and then comes back. People then begin to die, or are discovered to have...
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The words "Rowan County, North Carolina," evoke many memories for Danny Chase, the hero of John Hart's second literary thriller, Down River. Many of them are pleasant--for instance, the time he spent with childhood friend Danny Faith. But even the happy memories are colored by the events that drove him from Rowan five years before the events depicted in this novel, when he was almost convicted of a murder he didn't commit...
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This is a "Prodigal Son" book, wherein the oldest son of a wealthy southern family returns home five years after he was accused (but acquitted) of murder. At first, the narrator of this excellent who-dunnit seems incredibly hard headed, self centered, and difficult to like. As the story unfolds, we find out why he is this way, and it lends credibility to his actions later in the book. Because he's been gone and out of touch...
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