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Sebastian Ritscher
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ONE FATAL MISTAKE

Tom Hunt

Seventeen-year-old Joshua Jackson's life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is nothing out of the ordinary. Until the night that he accidentally kills someone with his car and pretends that nothing ever happened.
But there was a witness who has left a loose end at the scene of the crime, and when Joshua goes back to clean up, his car is stolenwith the dead body in the trunk. With nowhere to turn, he tells his mother everything. When she reluctantly agrees to help him, they'll both be ensnared in a series of events that will trap him and his family in a web of criminality and deceit. Nothing is safe from harm, and with every decision they're forced to make, Joshua and his family are pulled further away from the normal life they've always known. The night hides a multitude of sins and sinnersones that they'll never see coming.

Tom Hunt is an award-winning advertising copywriter. He has worked for some of the nation's largest and best-known agencies, including J. Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi. Killer Choice was his first novel.
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Published 2019-02-19 by Berkley

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Published 2019-02-19 by Berkley

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Hunt's first novel, KILLER CHOICE (2018), featured a man who goes to extreme lengths to save his wife, and this time Hunt's protagonist is a mother who finds out how far she will go to protect her son. ...Joshua is a young man on a roller coaster of emotion, and Karen is a woman with bottomless empathy who is nevertheless being gradually hardened by coldhearted killers; although, as the story of each character is fully revealed, readers may find it difficult to be too judgmental.

Hunt tackles questions of morality and family loyalty along the way to the exciting finale, and Shane is a truly terrifying villain. Readers who don't mind some predictable action will find plenty to enjoy.