Cemetery Road by Gar Anthony Haywood
Okay. Imagine that you're a young man living in South Central L.A. You have two best friends, guys that you've come up with since childhood, guys you'd do anything for and who would do anything for you. You and your friends do what you have to do to get by. Maybe you get into a little bit trouble here and there. Maybe you start to dabble in crime. You think you know how the game is played. You think you know the rules. Until one faithful day when you go somewhere you shouldn't have and something terrible happens. From that day on, your only choice is to run. You stay on the run. Days. Weeks. Years. You think you can run forever. But you can't hide from your past.
Welcome to Cemetery Road, a new thriller by Gar Anthony Haywood.
Mr. Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony Award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including six in the Aaron Gunner series, two in the Joe and Dottie Loudermilk series, and two other stand-alone thrillers. His first Gunner mystery, Fear of the Dark, won the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus award for Best First Novel of 1989, and his first Gunner short story, And Pray Nobody Sees You won both the PWA's Shamus and the World Mystery Convention's Anthony awards for Best Short Story of 1995. Now Mr. Haywood is back with a story that Publisher's Weekly calls, "...a beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences."
Errol "Handy" White is a self-employed repairman, someone who fixes things that others have written off as irreparable. But can he fix the mistakes of his own past?
Handy is haunted by a crime that he and two of his friends committed in their youth, a crime that he has been trying to outrun for twenty-six years. When one of those friends turns up dead in what looks to be a drug deal gone bad, Handy decides to come home for the funeral. It doesn't take Handy long to discover that the murder is the start of a long-overdue payback. Sensing that he may be next on the list, Handy has no choice but to find the killer before the killer finds him. What follows is a story of guilt, shame, and fear as Handy struggles with his desperate need to repay an old debt, and in so doing, maybe save himself in the process.
As for Mr. Haywood, he is currently hard at work on a seventh Aaron Gunner novel; another stand-alone; and an adventure series for young readers.
Okay. Now I want you to imagine that you're a reader who's really craving something exciting. You go to your bookshelf, but nothing pops out at you. You ask a friend for a recommendation, but they only shrug. You search high. You search low. Nothing seems to fit the bill. You're about to give up when an idea suddenly comes to you. You go online or head down to your local bookstore. You find a copy of Cemetery Road. You buy it. You read it. You love it.
George Ebey is the author of Broken Clock, Dimensions: Tales of Suspense, The Red Bag, and Widowfield. He is a graduate of Kent State University with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in writing. He lives with his wife, Gail, in Northeast Ohio.
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