Pickard County Atlas: A Novel
Chris Harding Thornton’s Pickard County Atlas is a haunting novel of troubled pasts crossing paths, doubling back and then running towards each other head-on. A deputy sheriff investigates a series of arson fires while two suspects — both brothers — run around him. Everyone’s got heavy baggage and the ending makes you wish they didn’t put those bags down.
“An atmospheric, slow-burning beauty of a book, rich with raw-edged lyricism and achingly real characters.” —Tana French, author of The Searcher
Small-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding debut about the aftershocks of crime and trauma that shake a Nebraskan town.
In a dusty town in Nebraska’s rugged sandhills, sheriff’s deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something to take his mind off the past, which weighs him down like an anvil. And he’s not the...


