South Village, Rob Hart
South Village, Rob Hart
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South Village

Author: Rob Hart

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2017

Categories: Fiction, Crime


Synopsis

Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I.—emphasis on ‘amateur.’ Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a commune in the Georgia woods, binge-drinking cheap whiskey and waiting for his passport to flee the country and nightmares that have followed him.Then a man is found dead. Known only as ‘Crusty Pete,’ the commune dweller is sprawled in the dirt, having fallen from a high rope bridge. It’s written off as an accident, but Ash suspects something more sinister. As he looks into Pete’s death, Ash is shocked to find the supposedly peaceful community houses a rogue faction preparing to commit an unspeakable act of violence.Ash has to make a choice: run, or put his skills to use and try to stop them. But he doesn’t know who to trust, or where the faction is planning to strike. As he struggles to put a stop to the violence, while keeping his own demons at bay, Ash finds that it’s only a matter of time before one or the other puts him down for good.

About Rob Hart

Rob Hart is the author of four acclaimed previous Ash McKenna novels: NEW YORKED, CITY OF ROSE, SOUTH VILLAGE, and THE WOMAN FROM PRAGUE. His short stories have appeared in publications like Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Needle, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. He has received both a Derringer Award nomination and honorable mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. His non-fiction articles have been featured at LitReactor, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Good Men Project, Birth.Movies.Death., the Powell's bookstore blog, and Nailed. He lives in New York City. Find him online at @robwhart and www.robwhart.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Benoit on November 21, 2016

The correct term her would be "lukewarm." I was somewhat looking forward to SOUTH VILLAGE because the premise looked so intriguing and different from the previous novels in the series NEW YORKED and CITY OF ROSE. Aaaaand it just didn't do it for me. There is a lot to like about the latest Ash McKenn......more

Goodreads review by Steph on September 30, 2016

Rob Hart has done it again! With South Village, Hart has gone deep, really developing the character of Ash McKenna. From New Yorked to City of Rose to now South Village, Ash has shined as a complex, complicated and multi-faceted character and Hart has delivered as an author who embraces strange loca......more

Goodreads review by Dan on October 10, 2016

"How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?" A brief (and somewhat paraphrased in the text) Die Hard reference made by Rob Hart's quasi-PI protagonist Ash McKenna in his third series installment South Village, this quip's same-story-different-setting implication in fact couldn't be any more......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on December 28, 2016

This third installment of the Ash McKenna series took me a bit longer to get into than the first two. NEW YORKED and CITY OF ROSE really opened with a bang and didn’t let up. In SOUTH VILLAGE, we find Ash living at a Georgia hippie commune working as a chef alongside Aesop. The hippie commune settin......more

Goodreads review by Nik on September 01, 2016

A great entry in the Ash McKenna series. Hart is at the top of his game in this novel, weaving together vivid characters with unusual settings and a churning mystery. He handles Ash's development beautifully, showing how a broken person with no small amount of self-loathing can finally begin pulling......more