Chris Whitaker
Chris Whitaker is a British crime writer whose We Begin at the End won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and the LA Times Book Prize. His novels are set in small-town America and combine literary ambition with emotional power in a way that recalls early Richard Russo and American Gothic fiction.
Works
- Tall OaksNarrative about a girl discovering she's connected to a deadly family secret in rural America
- All the Wicked GirlsCrime thriller centered on dangerous girls seeking revenge through calculated violence
- We Begin at the EndLiterary noir about a small-town detective and a woman bound by trauma and redemption
- All the Colors of the DarkSouthern gothic exploring how violence and darkness seep through generations of family trauma