Because the reader connects to the characters you will rage at injustice the whole way through… The compelling narrative illustrates the lengths to which a man will go when betrayed and desperate. The book expounds upon the premise that people who love, see what they want to see. Peopled with such strong and individual characters, this novel is written with skill and a deep understanding of human nature. It was Eli who kept Adrian sane during his years within a corrupt prison system.įaircloth Jones: An aging defense lawyer who has never gotten over his failure to keep Adrian Wall out of prison. The victim of a horrific abduction, she has bonded with Elizabeth who rescued her from her abductors and has been charged with their brutal murder.Įli Lawrence: Adrian Wall’s cellmate and confidante. Happily married, yet extraordinarily fond of Elizabeth.Ĭhanning Shore: A beautiful eighteen year old woman. 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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