Book description
From the author of Real Bad Things and Cottonmouths, a Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017, comes the darkly suspenseful tale of a small-town Easter tradition and its murderous secrets.
For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for the Golden Egg to find…
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1 author picked The Hunt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love a mystery or thriller, a number of which climbed to the top of my pile this year. What they all have in common is rich characters in communities dense with secrets.
The ultimate example for me was The Hunt, in which a colorful cast of damaged working-class people are swept up into a thriller that revolves around the threat of a string of murders spanning twenty years in Arkansas.
Growing up poor in rural Maine, my landscape was different, but I recognize the hardscrabble lives and the insular nature of small-town life so well depicted in Ford’s…
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