Author: timjohnston

In this “atmospheric, exquisitely suspenseful novel” (The Washington Post), a young woman drowns in an icy Minnesota river — a death eerily similar to one that shook the small community 10 years earlier. “Tim Johnston is the best thing to come along in crime fiction in years” (Michael Koryta).

The stunning vistas of the Rocky Mountains reveal a dark and deadly side in this brilliantly conceived thriller about family ties and the fight for survival. Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn’t come back, is stunning in its emotional impact–a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The … girl’s vanishing–on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning–all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them…