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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…
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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.
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In this blistering return to Chris Offutt's acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before as familial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everything he lovesWith…
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A combat veteran on leave investigates a murder in his Kentucky backwoods hometown.
This collection of eight stories by the award-winning author of The Good Brother captures the lives of men shaped by the rough, isolated culture of rural Kentucky.
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…
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Army-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt.
Chris Offutt is a literary master across…
Chris Offutt’s long-awaited return to fiction after nearly two decades, Country Dark is a fierce noir-inflected novel about a good man pushed by circumstance into crime.
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…
Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and literally unmapped. These stories are set in a nameless community too small to be called a town…
After fleeing his problems in Kentucky, Virgil Caudill finds a new name and identity in Montana. But the nightmare world of extremist militia groups and his own haunted past bring…
Acclaimed literary author Chris Offutt now delivers a breakout novel–The Killing Hills, a literary crime novel set in the Kentucky hills in which an Army CID agent on leave ends…
Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He'd planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end to his twenty-year Army career. In Rocksalt, his…
Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town…
In My Father, the Pornographer, Chris Offutt takes us on the journey of reading his father’s prodigious literary output as both a critic and as a son seeking answers. Contains…
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The story of Chris Offutt’s adventures as a young man, The Same River Twice takes readers from the Kentucky Appalachians to Manhattan, from Offutt’s gig as a walrus in a…
Appalachia Now hops on the back of a motorcycle for a wild ride through the hills we know best–Vicco, Hazard, branches, mine access roads. Fiddle tunes and black lung and…
16 stories of Appalachia today by some of our top writers. This collection brings us into the present with its struggles and beauty. Human character remains strong in these stories…
