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Also by John Hart:

The Unwilling, April 2022
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
The Unwilling, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Redemption Road, April 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Iron House, January 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Hush, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Redemption Road, January 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Redemption Road, May 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Child, March 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Iron House, July 2011
Hardcover
The Last Child, May 2009
Hardcover
Down River, October 2007
Hardcover
The King of Lies, May 2006
Hardcover

THE KING OF LIES
By: John Hart

A Literary Thriller

Minotaur Books
May 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 031234161X
Hardcover
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Mystery

John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack.

Work’s troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.
Hart’s mastery of prose and plot belie his newcomer status as he explores the true heart of a man. An illuminating anatomy of a murder and the ripple effect it produces within a family and a community, The King of Lies is a stunning debut.

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CBS Sunday Morning - May 28, 2006