num_pages: 320
description: From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense.  "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of Choctaw, Alabama. And on one hazy summer afternoon decades ago, a searing burst of violence engulfed Breakheart Hill. For one man who knows the truth about those shattering events, it is a memory that would become his awful secret.
language: English
title: Breakheart Hill
titlecomplete: Breakheart Hill
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 2203
places: Alabama
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: Crimeline