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GRIST MILL ROAD

Grist Mill Road, January 2019
by Christopher J. Yates

Picador
Featuring: Matthew; Hannah; Patch
352 pages
ISBN: 1250150302
EAN: 9781250150301
Kindle: B01N5EV572
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"Three friends intertwined from youth through life ... and more?"

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GRIST MILL ROAD
Christopher J. Yates

Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted January 3, 2021

Thriller

Three young friends, Patch, Hannah, and Matthew, all grew up one day when they least expected. Matthew really liked Hannah, but one day she said something to him, that he just couldn't get over. So Matthew decides to teach her a lesson. Matthew ties Hannah to a tree and starts hitting her with BB gun. One of them hits her in the eye, later she will lose that eye. Patch goes back to rescue her, having a hard time knowing what Matthew had done.

Now twenty-six years later they meet up again. First Patch and Hannah run into each other. They end up have a meal together and after several months, they get married. Hannah does recall all of what happened that day, but does have dreams about it. Patch, on the other, knows what really happened. Patch has lost his job, but his real love is cooking and writing a blog about it. This is how he and Matthew met again after all these years. Matthew has become very rich and he wants to invest in Patch, opening a place together but Patch is unsure if he can trust Matthew. Will that day twenty-six years ago, come back to haunt all of them?

GRIST HILL ROAD is a mix of romance and suspense of three young kids whose lives will always be intertwined. So if you like a book that has twists and turns, romance and suspense, here's a winner.

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SUMMARY

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.

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