The Killing Hills

Resumen del libro

** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ** Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case.

Are they convinced she can't handle it, or is there something else at work? She calls on Mick who, with his homicide investigation experience and familiarity with the terrain, is well-suited to staying under the radar. As he delves into the investigation, he dodges his commanding officer's increasingly urgent calls while attempting to head off further murders. And he needs to talk to his wife.

The Killing Hills is a novel of betrayal - sexual, personal, within and between the clans that populate the hollers - and the way it so often shades into violence. Chris Offutt has delivered a dark, witty, and absolutely compelling novel of murder and honor, with an investigator-hero unlike any in fiction.

Biografía del autor

Chris Offutt (1958) pasó su infancia y primera juventud en Haldeman, Kentucky, una población minera de doscientos habitantes que ya no existe. Tras licenciarse en la Universidad de Morehead, recorrió los Estados Unidos a dedo y trabajó en más de cincuenta empleos. Alumno de James Salter y Frank Conroy en el curso de escritura creativa de la Universidad de Iowa, Chris Offutt debutó en 1992 con el libro de relatos Kentucky seco. Es, además, autor de otra colección de relatos (Lejos del bosque), de tres obras autobiográficas y de cinco novelas. Ha escrito guiones de las series Treme, True Blood y Weeds.