Gar Anthony Haywood is the critically acclaimed author of the Aaron Gunner series, which includes the Los Angeles Times best-selling All the Lucky Ones Are Dead. Cemetery Road is a riveting standalone thriller that follows Errol "Handy" White, a man whose past has come back to haunt him. Years ago, Handy left his life as a Los Angeles thief behind, and now lays low in the Twin Cities. But when he hears that his old friend R. J. Burrows has been murdered, Handy must return to L.A. for the funeral and face a terrible secret.
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“Gripping…Haywood melds an intricately plotted but highly suspenseful thriller to a moving story…It has been too long between books for a writer who has always belong in the upper echelon of American crime fiction.”
— Booklist (starred review)
“A powerful novel. Beginning to end, it never loses its grip…The book is a wonderful achievement.”
— Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author“A thoughtful book, written with a layered complexity…And it’s a helluva crime story, too, with plenty of surprises.”
— Robert Crais, #1 New York Times bestselling author“Cemetery Road is the kind of novel that only a seasoned writer can bring us.”
— Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author“[A] beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences…Haywood reaches new heights as he peels back the layers of a well-planned robbery to reveal its devastating ripple effects.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Jackson’s ability to infuse each man, and the book’s other characters, with a unique emotional tone allows Haywood’s gripping story to reach another level.”
— AudioFile“Haywood…offers up rue, redemption, and cataclysmic surprises with noir underpinnings.”
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JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.