This time it was scooped up by the second publisher who saw it. That was when he decided to revisit and revise The King of Lies and send it out again. Initially rejected by publishers, he and his wife Katie, also a North Carolinian, moved to Greensboro where Hart worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch.

He spent just shy of a year buried in the local library writing what would become his first published work, The King of Lies. Deciding the law wasn't for him, he left the law practice and returned to his first love, writing. Hart returned to Salisbury, North Carolina, where he practiced law for three years-until he was assigned a case involving the defense of a child murderer. He wrote a second novel while there, but that, too, went unpublished. He went on to earn his Master's in Accounting at the University of North Carolina, headed to Juneau, Alaska, for a spell with his two sisters, and eventually returned to school for his law degree at the University of New Hampshire. After college, Hart tried his hand at writing and completed his first novel, though it remains unpublished. Spending a year in France and learning the language, he decided to major in French at Davidson College (north of Charlotte, North Carolina).

Hart was born and raised in North Carolina his father was a surgeon and his mother a French teacher. John Hart is an American author of five mystery-thriller novels that have achieved both popular and critical acclaim-and that have garnered him several major awards. Currently-lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.Awards-Edgar Awards (2), Best Novel Barry Award Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.Education-B.A., Davidson College MAcc, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.This is Redemption Road.īrimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.

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… 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, comparing his writing to that of Pat Conroy, Cormac McCarthy and Scott Turow.

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