‘Pickard County Atlas’ by Chris Harding Thornton. MCD/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288p, $26 Violence can shape a family’s emotional and mental growth for decades, as Chris Harding… ...

Chris Harding Thornton’s debut novel, “ Pickard County Atlas ” unfolds through an orderly roulette of perspectives — Harley, a divorced deputy sheriff haunted by personal demons; Rick, a ...

Chris Harding Thornton. MCD, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-23125-5 In Thornton’s impressive debut, a hard-edged noir set in 1978 Nebraska, Pickard County deputy sheriff Harley Jensen has to deal ...