Grimhaven: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Charles Willeford

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Willeford's last novel - so dark it could not be published (really).

Grimhaven
finds Hoke living a simple life. He has retired from the police force,
works at his father's hardware store and spends his spare time swimming
and working on chess problems. He is content until his ex-wife sends his
two teenage daughters to live with him while she lives it up with a
black baseball player in LA. The story is really about the lengths a
man will go to get back what he has lost, and Hoke is willing to go a
long, long way. He doesn't want his wife back. He doesn't want his job
back. He just wants to go on living as he was, alone and with time to
spend working on his chess puzzles without being bothered. The way he
sets about doing this is harrowing and, well, grim, but it's also
brilliant.

✦ Subjects

A Novel