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Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.
this forceful sequel to Holy City brims with Wiseʻs trademark examination of the pathos and ethos of small-town life, the equal weights of grief and hatred.
As detectives in a missing persons case search for answers, the sum of their investigation illuminates the hard fact that there is a price for progress, and a cost for living by the code. Powerful and complex, the novel observes the gravity of the past, the momentum of sin, and the impossibility of salvation.
‘A new master of Southern gothic.’ Kirkus Reviews
Henry Wise is garnering fabulous reviews in the US and looks likely to feature strongly in the crime fiction awards season in 2025/2026
Holy City, his debut novel was an Amazon Editor’sBest Books pick
Category: Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
RRP: £10.99
ISBN: 9781835013700
Published: February 11, 2027
Extent: 384 pages
RRP: £7.99
ISBN: 9781835013717
Published: February 11, 2027
‘a new master of Southern gothic.’ — Kirkus Review, Starred Review
‘A somber but emotionally exhilarating meditation on manhood, morality, and the price of the choices we make. Wise is quickly cementing himself as one of the finest voices in the New Southern Literary movement’ S A Crosby
‘Henry Wise is a talented storyteller who brings a poet’s ear to the southern landscape he knows so well’ Chris Offutt, author of The Killing Hills
From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.
this forceful sequel to Holy City brims with Wiseʻs trademark examination of the pathos and ethos of small-town life, the equal weights of grief and hatred.
As detectives in a missing persons case search for answers, the sum of their investigation illuminates the hard fact that there is a price for progress, and a cost for living by the code. Powerful and complex, the novel observes the gravity of the past, the momentum of sin, and the impossibility of salvation.
'A new master of Southern gothic.' Kirkus Reviews
Henry Wise is garnering fabulous reviews in the US and looks likely to feature strongly in the crime fiction awards season in 2025/2026
Holy City, his debut novel was an Amazon Editor’sBest Books pick
"Promised Land" was written by Henry Wise.