Is very fond of Elizabeth, who entered his life in her capacity of policewoman when his mother was murdered.Ĭharlie Beckett: A homicide detective and Elizabeth’s police partner. Now lives with his alcoholic father in less than ideal circumstances. Gideon Strange: The son of the woman Adrian Wall was convicted of murdering. Her body was found on the alter of Elizabeth’s father’s church. Julia Strange: Murder victim loved by Adrian Wall. A man who believes in family and a ‘profounder truth’. Now under indictment for a double homicide herself. Loves Adrian Wall and the children she has come to love like her own, Gideon Strange and Channing Shore.

Deeply scarred by a traumatic event in her youth. Now newly released, his life has turned into a fresh kind of hell…Įlizabeth Black: A North Carolina policewoman. A good cop, in prison for murder, where he was treated abominably. “ Redemption Road” has some very memorable characters.Īdrian Wall: Incarcerated for thirteen years for a crime for which he was innocent.

But for how long?Īnd deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, the unthinkable has just happened… Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother.Ī troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting.Īfter thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free. When I saw that Thomas Dunne Books offered another title by John Hart on NetGalley I wasted no time in requesting it. It was the first book I had read by John Hart and it has resonated in my memory. A few years ago I read a wonderful thriller called “ The last child“.

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