Down River, John Hart
Down River, John Hart
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Down River
A Novel

Author: John Hart

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 12 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2007


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning novel with from an author whose "prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard" (Entertainment Weekly).

Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York City trying to erase his worst memories and the scorn and abandonment of his family. Then a phone call from his best friend awakens in him a torrent of emotion and pain. Having left North Carolina and its red soil for good, he never thought returning would be easy—but being remembered as a murderer doesn't help much. Adam is beaten, accosted, and hostilely confronted by his family, including Grace, the young woman whose abandonment torments him still.

Then people start turning up dead.

Within this small Southern town, John Hart explores the lengths to which people will go for money, family, and pure greed—and whether or not forgiveness is ever attainable.

About John Hart

John Hart is the New York Times bestselling author of The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child, Iron House, Redemption Road, and The Hush. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries.

About Scott Sowers

Scott Sowers has narrated numerous audiobooks, including books by Douglas Preston, Robert Ludlum, John Hart, and Nicholas Sparks. He was named the 2008 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense by AudioFile magazine. AudioFile also awarded Sowers an Earphones Award for his narration of John Hart’s Down River, writing, “[providing] a bewitching rhythm and pace, expertly capturing and elevating this story of redemption. The combination of Hart and Sowers provides the perfect marriage of prose and voice. Together they enable the book to transcend genre fiction and become something exceptional.”  Sowers is also an accomplished actor of both stage and screen. His theater credits include roles in Inherit the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bus Stop, and A Few Good Men. His many television credits include guest roles on Law & Order, The Black Donnellys, Six Degrees, All My Children, and the Hallmark Channel’s Season for Miracles. He has also appeared in the films Trust the Man, The Village and The Ten.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on December 19, 2017

4 tender, emotionally connected stars to John Hart's Down River This is my third John Hart Novel in as many months. It’s safe to say I’m a fan. So much so, in fact, that after reading The Last Child (still my reigning favorite Hart novel), I bought his entire backlist. Adam Chase is an enigma. He’s a......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on March 04, 2023

I needed me some grit so I went to the Hart Man. Adam was exiled from a small town for a crime he didn’t commit. 5 years later, he has returned, hoping to resolve some unanswered questions. What he finds is a further mystery to be unravelled with more questions, compounded by a death he’s naturally......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on September 17, 2022

My first John Hart novel and One of My Favorite Reads of the Year. What took me so long?! This book has it all! It’s Character-Driven Fiction, with non-stop action, and pulse pounding suspense. When Adam Chase arrives back in his hometown in Rowan County, North Carolina after a long absence, he knows......more

Goodreads review by Karen on September 16, 2012

loved......more

Goodreads review by NILTON on February 24, 2022

In this book the word angry was used 40 times, and anger was used 47 times. I cannot express how angry I’m with myself for wasting my time reading this book. Anyways, as my fellow readers praised this book, and as this one also won (gasp!) an Edgar Award, I will not point all the faults and my disappo......more


Quotes

“Southern writer John Hart's work has a lyrical quality that Scott Sowers narrates with a growling weariness...The combination of Hart and Sowers provides the perfect marriage of prose and voice. Together they enable the book to transcend genre fiction and become something exceptional.” —AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner

“Scott Sowers delivers a solid performance reading Hart's powerful second novel…Hart writes with an intimate sense of melancholy and loss that Sowers resonates perfectly. Using a low-key, Southern accent to good advantage, Sowers draws the listener into the story from the very beginning with his simple, earnest delivery, and holds them tight.” —Publishers Weekly

“An ambitious debut thriller...well spun...a gripping performance.” —People on The King of Lies

“There hasn't been a thriller as showily literate since Scott Turow came along.” —The New York Times


Awards

  • Audible.com Best of the Year
  • Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner
  • AudioFile Best Voices