Code of the Hills

Market Bullets:

· Code of the Hills,the third installment in the Mick Hardin series, is a dark, pacy, andthrilling return to murder and mayhem in the Kentucky hills.

· The first two books in the Mick Hardinseries, The Killing Hills and Shifty's Boys, have been widelyreviewed, garnering praise from the New York Times, the Wall StreetJournal, and CrimeReads?not to mention crime fiction legends ValMcDermid and Ian Rankin.

· Both The Killing Hills and Shifty'sBoys were Deadly Pleasures picks for Best of Southern Noir in 2022.

· This book sees Mick adjusting to civilianlife after retirement, and for the first time the code of personal revenge thathe's staked himself on opposing hits close to home?both in the risk to Linda,and from an expected source. Chris continues to stretch his characters, and thehills have never been darker.

· Critics have lauded the vibrant sense ofculture and place in Chris's fiction, referred to as ?holler noir,? and alongwith S.A. Cosby, Brian Panowich, and others, he's part of a new wave ofSouthern crime building on the legacy of Donald Ray Pollock and DanielWoodrell.

· A literary master across genres, Chris's work has appearedin Best American Short Stories and Best AmericanEssays and he's written several screenplays. The recipient of a Lannanand a Guggenheim fellowship, he is well respected & acclaimed in theliterary world thus far. Offutt's return to fiction, Country Dark,was a New York Times Editor's Choice and an Indie NextSelection.

· The Killing Hills andShifty's Boys have collectively sold 23, 678 units across all formats.

· We are committed to growing this series ?Offutt is already at work on the fourth installment.