Chris Harding Thornton

Pickard County Atlas (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this atmospheric debut, small-town secrets and the aftershocks of crime threaten to set a Nebraskan community ablaze.

In a dusty town in Nebraska's rugged sandhills, weary sheriff's deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something-anything-out of the ordinary. It's July 1978, and the heat is making people ornery, restless. That and the Reddick family patriarch has decided, decades after authorities ended the search for his murdered boy's body, to lay a headstone. Instead of bringing closure, this decision is the spark that threatens to engulf Pickard County.

On a fateful night after the memorial service, Harley tails the youngest Reddick and town miscreant, Paul, through the abandoned farms and homes outside their run-down town. The pursuit puts Harley in the path of Pam Reddick, a restless young woman looking for escape, bent on cutting the ties of motherhood and marriage. Filled with desperate frustration, Pam is drawn to Harley's dark history, not unlike that of her husband, Rick-a man raised in the wreckage of a brother's violent death and a mother's hardened fury.

Unfolding over six tense days, Pickard County Atlas sets Harley and the Reddicks on a collision course-propelling them toward an incendiary moment that will either redeem or end them. Engrossing, darkly funny, and authentically rendered, Chris Harding Thornton's rural noir rings with a nuanced sense of place even as it hums with menace, introducing an astonishing new voice in literary crime fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374722395
• Artikelnr.: 59416505

Autorenporträt

Chris Harding Thornton, a seventh-generation Nebraskan, holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a PhD from the University of Nebraska, where she currently teaches. She has worked as a quality assurance overseer at a condom factory, a jar-lid screwer at a plastics plant, a closer at Burger King, a record store clerk, an all-ages club manager, and a PR writer. Pickard County Atlas is her first novel.