tim johnston

Sep 2, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | tim johnston

I've read two other novels by Tim Johnston and liked them both, but this one, DISTANT SONS, is his best. It kept me up reading long past my bedtime, and when I sat down to eat, this book came with me. There's a lot going on here, the best kind of mystery, with more than one mystery. The main character in DISTANT SONS is 26-year-old Sean Courtland, who was the teenage son in Johnston's book DESCENT. He is now a wandering carpenter and has found work where he stopped accidentally.

Aug 3, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Abi Dare |tim johnston |Sophie Brickman |Will Dean

The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 6th from Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy.

Jan 19, 2024 | crimereads.com | Polly Stewart |tim johnston

When I began this series for CrimeReads, I imagined myself reading a lot of Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, and Chester Himes. That was fine with me; other than a brief Agatha Christie phase in middle school, I’d never spent much time on the classics of crime fiction, and I looked forward to hearing what writers I admired had to say about them. What I didn’t anticipate is that I’d also be introduced to novels from the past five or ten years that I’d somehow missed or overlooked.

Oct 26, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | tim johnston

Your Assiduous Reviewer, partial to the well-plotted literary thriller but unfamiliar with Tim Johnston, read that author’s first two novels in preparation for reviewing his third and latest, Distant Sons, and has made a preliminary assessment.

Oct 18, 2023 | captimes.com | Rob Thomas |tim johnston

The neighbors across the street had just remodeled their house, and Tim Johnston came over to take a look. And look. And look. He stared so intently at the handiwork that it started to unnerve them. “The owner looked at me and said, ‘What are you looking at? What's wrong with it?’” Johnston recalled in a phone interview from his home in Iowa City. “(I said) I'm just looking. I'm just looking at how it was done. I'm just admiring it, looking at the joints and the care that was taken.