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Chris Offutt is the author of the short-story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, four novels The Good Brother, Country Dark, The Killing Hills, Code of the Hills, and three memoirs: The Same River Twice, No Heroes, and My Father, the Pornographer.
FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHRIS OFFUTT
The Reluctant Sheriff is Chris Offutt’s fourth book featuring Mick Hardin.
A dark and fierce return to the Kentucky hills, where nothing is what it seems.
Mick Hardin returns to the trials and tribulations of local sheriff duties, whilst the previous sheriff, his sister Linda, recovers from a gunshot wound sustained in the line of duty.
Living in Linda’s house in Rocksalt, Mick finds himself entwined in the trials and tribulations of being a sheriff in the perturbing Kentucky community. Unable to retire from a world of dubiousness and violence, Mick Hardin is back with determination to deliver retribution.
‘Righteous Kentucky noir… I gulped it down, relishing the burn’ Ian Rankin on Shifty’s Boys
An explosive return to the Kentucky hills, Code of the Hills is a novel of family and what we’re willing to do to protect and avenge the ones we love.
Army-cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed literary crime novelist Chris Offutt…
* LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER * A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt’s latest novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which a suspicious death exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep-rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky backwoods….