LaBrava, Me and Dutch and Image Patterns
Image Patterns A quarter of a century ago, I decided to teach a course in crime fiction at the university where I worked for most of my adult life. The focus was on crime novels set in
Cars
This is a King Midget, my first car. My brother, John, (pictured here with Baby, the neighborhood dog) drove it before he turned it over to me when he got his first car, a ’52 Chevy I believe. The King
Outlines
This week I reached the point in the new novel where I decided it was time to do an outline. That point is roughly 75 percent into the book. My version of an “outline” is a one or two sentence
Friends and Books
I’ve been lucky to meet many of the writers I’ve long admired and in some cases I’ve been even luckier to have become friends with some. Back in the early eighties, before I’d published a novel, I was teaching a
Nude Woman in the Grass: How I Fell In Love With Mysteries
(This is a view of the ‘restored” library. The First Presbyterian Church (which I attended in my youth) is on the far right.) NUDE WOMAN IN THE GRASS My love affair with books began as most serious romances do, when
An Interview
Forests of the Night by James W. Hall Published by St. Martin’s Minotaur 352 pages, 2005 Buy it online Novels by James W. Hall: Under Cover of Daylight (1987) Tropical Freeze(1990) Bones of Coral (1992)
Four Hours
Okay, I write thrillers, so I should be used to this. Still it’s strangely hard to accept the fact that on the opening page of the Kindle version of When They Come For You the reading time is listed as
When They Come For You–Free for Amazon Prime members.
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Never Gets Old
The day the new books arrive never gets old. It’s happened now 20 plus times, and it’s still as exciting as it was decades ago when I started. And this time the audio books arrived at the same time.
Imagination
When I was a kid, besides playing basketball, football and tennis with my friends and classmates, I spent a good deal of time alone. In my early teenage years, I set up a shop in the basement of our house
