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Also by Christopher J. Yates:

The Rabbit Club, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Grist Mill Road, January 2019
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Black Chalk, August 2015
Paperback / e-Book

GRIST MILL ROAD
By: Christopher J. Yates

Picador
January 2019
On Sale: December 31, 2018
Featuring: Matthew; Hannah; Patch
352 pages
ISBN: 1250150302
EAN: 9781250150301
Kindle: B01N5EV572
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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Twenty-six years ago Hannah had her eye shot out. Now she wants justice. But is she blind to the truth?

Christopher J. Yates’s cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates’s new book does not disappoint. Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again--with even more devastating results.