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Holding Lies
A General Fiction Novel by John Larison
Subgenres:
- Literary Mystery,
- Pacific Northwest,
- Family Drama
This book is for you if you're into...
- River guide mysteries set in the rainy Pacific Northwest
- Estranged parent-child relationships with real emotional stakes
- Small town secrets and old grudges resurfacing
With Holding Lies, John Larison takes us deep into a thriving subculture of the Northwest, one born of ferns and firs, rain and hot-springs, salmon and whitewater.
He takes us even deeper into the troubles of Hank Hazelton, a fifty-nine-year-old river guide, as he struggles to reconnect with his daughter after a long estrangement.
Before his daughter's arrival, Hank discovers a drift boat stranded below a rapid, its oarsman missing.
Within days, the sheriff has opened a murder investigation, one that to Hank appears more about old grudges than objective evidence.
When Hank himself becomes a suspect, he's forced to confront the violent past of his home valley—and his own culpability.
In a novel about finding family in unlikely places, Larison breathes life into a community rich with history, sin, and hope, a place where bears still wander side streets and time is still marked by the seasons of the river.
Holding Lies is a taut, big-hearted novel, steeped in the ecology of place and peopled with unforgettable characters.
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