“By then I had months and months of work into this so I pressed on and well a year into it, I knew it wasn’t going to work.”ĭescribing himself as a “hope and grope” author since he prefers to come up with the story as he goes versus outlining the entire book, Hart said the reason the novel didn’t work is because “the fundamental flaw I found was that I wasn’t writing about the right person.” He expanded by saying that in his past novels, he always knew who he was writing about. “I wrote the first 50 pages and it wasn’t working and then I got to 150 pages and it still wasn’t working,” Hart said. He also began writing what he thought would be his fifth book, calling his publisher a year into the project and telling them that he was going to scrap it. “I came back with the intention of being more available to them so I decided to take six months off.” I was in Austria and touring,” Hart said during a phone interview. “What happened was we moved and I was in the midst of a book tour for my fourth book (‘Iron Horse’). However, six months turned into five years for the New York Times bestselling author who comes to visit Schuler Books Friday, May 20. John Hart’s intention was only to take a short break from writing to help his family get acclimated to their new home in Virginia. Now, Hart delivers his most powerful story yet.Ī 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 as deep in the forest on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen…īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.John Hart comes to Schuler Books Friday, May 20. Each novel has taken Hart higher on the New York Times Bestseller list as his masterful writing and assured evocation of place have won readers around the world and earned history's only consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel with Down River and The Last Child. Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart.

The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel.

Over 2 million copies of his books in print.

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