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  • The Killing Hills

    by Chris Offutt ...
    Series Book 1 - The Mick Hardin Novels
    A veteran on leave investigates a murder in his Kentucky backwoods hometown in this Appalachian noir by the acclaimed author of Country Dark.Mick Hardin, a combat veteran and Army CID agent, is home on a leave to be with his pregnant wife—but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder investigation—but local politicians are pushing for someone ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Country Dark

    by Chris Offutt ...
    "A smart, rich country noir" from the acclaimed author Kentucky Straight and The Good Brother (Stewart O'Nan, bestselling author of Henry, Himself).Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" ( The New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Brother

    A Novel

    by Chris Offutt ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of the collection Kentucky Straight and memoir My Father the Pornographer, The Good Brother is the finely crafted debut novel from a talent the New York Times calls “a fierce writer”.Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice—his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows who did it, and in the hills of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shifty's Boys

    by Chris Offutt ...
    Series Book 2 - The Mick Hardin Novels
    Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to Appalachia in this propulsive thriller from the award-winning author of The Killing Hills.Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Father, the Pornographer

    A Memoir

    by Chris Offutt ...
    **PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAfter inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and ‘80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir.**“Chris Offutt owns one of the finest, surest prose styles around, ready and able to convey the hardest truth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Same River Twice

    A Memoir

    by Chris Offutt ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Same River Twice is the second volume from an American literary star. “If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (Chicago Tribune).At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kentucky Straight

    Stories

    by Chris Offutt ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation; where hunting is ... Read more

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  • Out of the Woods

    Stories

    by Chris Offutt ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Out of the Woods is Chris Offutt’s fiercely original short story collection the New York Times calls “a magical book”.Arriving seven years after Offutt’s debut collection Kentucky Straight, Out of the Woods returns a masterly writer to the form which garnered him not only critical praise but ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Sheriff

    A Mick Hardin Novel

    by Chris Offutt ...
    Series Book 4 - The Mick Hardin Novels
    Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this breakneck new novel, sheriff Mick Hardin navigates the treacherous terrain of a town’s festering secrets and the violent forces who want to keep them hiddenLauded as a “masterclass in the craft of crime fiction” ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Code of the Hills

    A Mick Hardin Novel

    by Chris Offutt ...
    Series Book 3 - The Mick Hardin Novels
    In this blistering return to Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before as familial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everything he lovesWith his signature crackling prose, literary master Chris Offutt has staked out his own territory in crime fiction, a place of familial allegiances, old wounds, and revenge—the code of the hills. His ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • No Heroes

    A Memoir of Coming Home

    by Chris Offutt ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer comes the unforgettable memoir No Heroes. “If you haven’t read Chris Offutt, you’ve missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (Chicago Tribune).In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. He ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    My Father, the Pornographer

    A Memoir

    by Chris Offutt ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    When Andrew Offutt died, his son, Chris, inherited a desk, a rifle, and eighteen hundred pounds of pornographic fiction. Andrew had been considered the "king of twentieth-century smut," with a writing career that began as a strategy to pay for his son's orthodontic needs and soon took on a life of its own, peaking during the 1970s when the commercial popularity of the erotic novel reached its ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook