Northward (2018)
Please enjoy the first chapter of the novel.
Category Archives: Chuck Radda Books
Flood Moon
When Horace Greeley advised Americans to “Go West!” a century and a half ago, it’s doubtful he envisioned someone like Calvin Hopper. Greeley’s advice was full of promise and optimism; Hopper, who has lived and breathed the East all his life, wants only a place to escape.
Fifty years old and adrift, Hopper is trying to shed the remnants of a relationship that has collapsed for the second and final time. He envisions the West as a place in which to disappear; and Sage, Montana, becomes the way station on a journey whose endpoint he hasn’t really considered.
Sage is isolated by both weather and topography, but despite its sleepy appearance and a smattering of old-west kitsch, it hides a multitude of secrets, many of which extend well beyond its borders and involve residents who, like Hopper, have sought solitude but failed.
As he becomes enmeshed in the life of the town and sees the possibility of starting over, he uncovers more about its past. Soon isolation is no longer an option: unless Cal Hopper can expose those secrets, his own life may end in the place where he sought a new beginning.
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Chuck can also be reached by email at chuckradda@gmail.com
Chuck can also be found at his website: chuckradda.com
Dark Time
Chuck Radda presents his new novel, Dark Time, available as a trade paperback or ebook. Here’s a summary from the book jacket:
A woman survives the dramatic crash-landing of an airplane on the Hudson River, only to disappear into thin air. Her husband begins a journey to find her that leads him hundreds of miles from home, to uncover her secrets in the desolate tundra of northern Canada.
In his debut novel, Chuck Radda takes readers deep into the new territory of Nunavut, where Martin Wilkes struggles to come to terms with the truth about his wife, his marriage, and ultimately, the meaning of his life.
With a wide-ranging cast of characters that includes a cranky detective, a psychic Inuit, a daredevil pilot, and some uptight suburbanites, Radda captures the desperation of a man teetering on the brink of losing everything he holds dear.
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Chuck can also be reached by email at chuckradda@gmail.com
Chuck can also be found at his website: chuckradda.com
Absolute Truth
Chuck Radda presents his second novel, Absolute Truth, available as a trade paperback or ebook. Here’s a summary from the book jacket:
Brutal murders on successive nights have shocked the small town of Drayton. In their aftermath two young women are dead, two anguished families will confront a shattering loss, and residents must face the possibility that a serial killer lives among them.
To Brianna Cooper, a reporter for the Drayton Courier, even such horrific crimes would ordinarily mean little more than an assignment; but because the first victim was a friend, Brianna feels a greater personal involvement. Unfortunately, her reputation as a journalist is spotty at best: she cuts corners when it suits her, and at least once has embarrassed herself and the Courier with her nonchalant approach and indifferent attitude.
Brianna Cooper believes she can do better—can gather facts and verify sources, seek the truth and report it, play her role with a new independence. She doesn’t realize that simply doing her job may well have consequences she could never have anticipated, and that the absolute truth can present its own dangers.
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