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Gabriel Hill stumbles home to find a lame remains on his porch. A male who had kick him earlier. After puking, he finds a temporary animal scapegoat behind his house. The subsequent day, his life got complicated.
His home is damaged into. He's beaten by a stranger. Seduced by another. Threatened unless he can find a valuables his passed hermit presumably sent to him.
Ignoring recommendation to run, Gabe searches for answers. He finds a hermit distinct a drug dependant immature male he forgot. He finds new threats, new enemies, some-more passed bodies, a bravery he didn't consider existed, a adore that he didn't design and a law that he feared.
"R. Thomas Brown's HILL COUNTRY is a wicked Tilt-A-Whirl of murder, mayhem, and profanation that straddles a line between crime and horror. Lean, fast-paced, and unflinching, HILL COUNTRY will yield underneath your skin and hang with we prolonged after you've incited a final page." - Chris F. Holm
"In Hill Country, R. Thomas Brown has created an irritable story full of passion and tellurian fallibility. The story end along during a breakneck pace, harsh and painfully real. Its expel of characters run a gamut, from damaged to brutal, from tender as an open wound to cold and dim as a winter midnight. When we start this tale, devise on not putting it down compartment you're done, and while you're reading, don't forget to breathe." - Bill Cameron, author of County Line
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #119054 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-02-15
- Released on: 2012-02-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
By R Thomas Brown
Buy new: $3.99
Customer Rating: 
First tagged "noir" by R Thomas Brown
Customer tags: murder mystery(3), murder(3), crime fiction(3), suspense(3), noir(3), crime novel(3), thriller(3), hill country(3), texas fiction(3), hard-boiled(3)
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1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Entertaining Noir With Unforgetable Characters and Tight Jams
By Ed Lynskey,
Dr. Gabriel Hill discovers his hermit Mike has been murdered. The brothers have been disloyal due mostly to Mike's drug robe and rapist activities. Of course, Gabe decides to examine Mike's genocide while during a same time perplexing to learn about a hermit he hasn't famous for a prolonged time. Thrown into a noirish meal is a sexy though dangerous Abby and a memorable psychopath Tyler. Ron Brown's entrance novel HILL COUNTRY is a stout account populated by dirty folks and filled with parsimonious jams. His concise poetry reminds me of Ken Bruen and Peter Rabe, and a hardscrabble environment he uses is in farming Texas that a good Charles Williams also wrote about. we favourite reading this interesting noir that should also prove other fans of a genre.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Wild Country
By CFH
Look, I'll tell we right now: this book ain't safe. Ain't polite. Ain't predictable. Ain't easy. But HILL COUNTRY ain't aiming for any of those things. HILL COUNTRY is as dark, winding, and fraudulent as a nation highway on a moonless night, though I'll be darned if it isn't also deeply tellurian as well.
From a impulse we accommodate him, creatively kick to ruin by a male whose lame remains he afterwards finds on his front porch, Gabriel Hill is a male in over his head. He's got clarity adequate to know it, though not clarity adequate to leave good adequate alone, selecting to puncture deeper into a poser of what's happened when those closest to him desire him to usually run.
Or maybe it's not that he hasn't got a clarity to leave good adequate alone. Maybe he's smarter than all that. Maybe Gabriel's schooled a thing or dual in his infrequently hardscrabble life. Enough to know that sometimes, a usually approach out is through.
I brave we not to follow breathlessly along with him.
