Publisher's Synopsis
Deep amid the jagged hills of southern Indiana, young mother Jessie Scheutter and her three children are found dead in the snow beside a rural creek. Her longtime partner, former basketball star and local legend Tyner Hayes, soon becomes a suspect. And Tyner's best friend, Blake Prince, begins a search for what happened, and focuses on a mysterious leader who founded and runs a secretive community on the outskirts of town. Beset by guilt, anger, and frustration, and convinced the deaths were not an accident, Blake casts aside his own demons to vouch for Tyner's innocence and looks for the real reason behind the family's demise. Though he has to contend with Tyner's deceptions, and the resentments of a small town at the realization that one of their own might be a killer, Blake suspects someone prominent in the intentional community where Jessie was raised is the likely culprit. But who? As he becomes involved with a beautiful young doctor, who struggles with her own feelings of uncertainty and fright, the violence around them increases, and the truth of what occurred in the frozen woods threatens to jeopardize the life of Blake and almost everyone around him.Bursting with startling imagery and long-simmering tensions that threaten to explode at any moment, I Don't Want to Hurt You is a thriller in the tradition of Nordic Noir by Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larrson that is filled with the deepening mystery of the link between one man and a strange, dark world.
