The Carpenter is set in a God-fearing small Ontario town in the 1980s, a town rife with secrets, grudges passed through the
 generations and an undercurrent of criminal behaviour. Lee King, the carpenter, is returning after a lengthy stay in maximum-security
 prison to a community that still recalls his horrendous crime. His mother is dying, and he wants to see her and his sister Donna after
 so many years. But things are still not quite right in the town as Stan Maitland, the retired cop, knows. Not only does he vividly 
remember Lee's unexplained violence from years before, he is also caught up in a mysterious new death. He has just found the body of 
a young woman, Judy Lacroix, in a car at the abandoned drive-in on the edge of town. Stan can't help getting involved, though his
 policing days are long over. And what about Lee King'will he ever understand where his violent streak comes from' When Lee finally
 faces who he is, the lives of his family are once again overturned. A suspenseful, darkly humorous, emotionally engaging work, 
The Carpenter is a powerful debut novel. Like Dennis Lehane, Matt Lennox is completely at home in the back alleys and dark corners
 of small-town life'and of the human heart.
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