Ransom Burning: A Novel

A decade after fleeing tragedy, an award-winning journalist finally returns to his hometown to face head-on the dark past he tried to outrun.

Inspired by true events, James Markert’s Ransom Burning is rich with multilayered characters and small-town intrigue, perfect for fans of Wiley Cash’s A Land More Kind Than Home and Liz Moore’s Long Bright River.

It’s 1974, and Los Angeles Times reporter Hunter Dreary returns to his hometown of Ransom, Kentucky, when he hears his autistic younger brot...