Code of the Hills

In this blistering return to ChrisOffutt’s acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before asfamilial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everythinghe lovesMaster storyteller and award-winning author Chris Offutt’s latest book, Codeof the Hills, is a dark, witty, and propulsive thriller of murder andsecrets in a town where little is as it seems.Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He’d planned to touch downbriefly before heading to France, marking the end to his twenty-year Armycareer. In Rocksalt, his sister Linda the sheriff is investigating the murderof Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack. Afteranother body is found, Linda and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver wonder if thetwo murders are related. Linda steps into harm’s way just as a third body turnsup and Mick ends up being deputized again, uncovering evidence of illegalcockfighting, and trying to connect all the crimes.An explosive return to the mayhem of the Kentucky hills, Code ofthe Hills is a harrowing novel of family—of what we’re willing to doto protect and avenge the ones we love.