Redemption Road by John Hart

If you are tired of run-of-the-mill mystery/thriller stories that recycle all the same thrills and chills, you might want to take a read of anything that John Hart has written. This guy writes beautifully, but the story is so fast paced that I as a fellow writer have a hard time slowing the reading down to analyze his writing. You need to know what happens next.

With multiple plots and interconnecting plots and character lines, there is no way to determine who is on the right or the wrong side of his story.

The story opens with a serial killer dealing with his latest victim. The killing happens just as a former cop is released from prison for the same crime thirteen years prior. When released, he is confronted with the child of the women he was convicted of killing. The child tries to kill him. It does not end well.

Another side of the story finds us dealing with another police officer who has rescued a local rich child from two rapists. Although the child has been rescued, she finds herself as part of a political witch hunt because the forensic evidence showed that she killed the two assailants using eighteen bullets in an act that cries out torture. The fact that she is white and the assailants are not, adds to the political outcry.

This is a story that could climb out of today’s newspapers. The pace is set at full-speed ahead and you better have your seatbelts on.