I am so glad you liked this book!! Thw author is from my hometown and his first novel The King of Lies is set in my hometown and borrows heavily on how people can be there. I really enjoy John’s work. Read his other two books they are great! Also if you want some more southern lit, well contemporary southern lit, check out Reynolds Price and Pat Conroy. I just finished Beach Music by Conroy and didnt want it to end. georgiegirlnyc: My latest read was The Last Child by John Hart.  This book pulls you in from the very first page.  I defy you not to race through it.  It never lets up with constant twists and turns along with a fantastic cast of characters.  From Amazon: A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders. Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa’s case, keeps a watchful eye on Johnny and his mother, who has deteriorated since Alyssa’s abduction and her husband’s departure soon afterward. When a second girl is snatched, Johnny is even more determined to find his sister, convinced that the perpetrator is the same person who took Alyssa. But what he unearths is more sinister than anyone imagined, sending shock waves through the community and putting Johnny’s own life in danger. This book gets two thumbs up from me.  
I am so glad you liked this book!! Thw author is from my hometown and his first novel The King of Lies is set in my hometown and borrows heavily on how people can be there. I really enjoy John’s work. Read his other two books they are great! Also if you want some more southern lit, well contemporary southern lit, check out Reynolds Price and Pat Conroy. I just finished Beach Music by Conroy and didnt want it to end.

georgiegirlnyc:

My latest read was The Last Child by John Hart.  This book pulls you in from the very first page.  I defy you not to race through it.  It never lets up with constant twists and turns along with a fantastic cast of characters.  From Amazon:

A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders. Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa’s case, keeps a watchful eye on Johnny and his mother, who has deteriorated since Alyssa’s abduction and her husband’s departure soon afterward. When a second girl is snatched, Johnny is even more determined to find his sister, convinced that the perpetrator is the same person who took Alyssa. But what he unearths is more sinister than anyone imagined, sending shock waves through the community and putting Johnny’s own life in danger.

This book gets two thumbs up from me.