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Harper returns to take care of unfinished business. The novel takes place in Zurich, Spain and Italy. It will be published August 28th.
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Harper returns to take care of unfinished business. The novel takes place in Zurich, Spain and Italy. It will be published August 28th.
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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 Florida. I had plenty to choose from, ranging from John D. MacDonald’s smart, tough and
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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 Midget was powered by a Briggs and Stratton engine, 3 horsepower. That engine had once
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 summary of each chapter I’ve written so far. This helps me see the larger shape
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 course at the university in mystery writing. One of the books I used in that
(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 I was least expecting to fall in love. I was ten years old, maybe eleven,
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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) Hard Ground (1993) Mean High Tide(1994) Gone Wild (1995) Buzz Cut (1996) Red Sky at
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 approximately 4 hours. And when the reader reviews starting piling up, there’s one refrain that
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 alongside my brother’s imitation radio disc jockey studio complete with control board with lots of
From a very early age I’ve had my nose in a book. I can’t say for sure what caused my fascination with reading. My brother, for instance, who is only two years older and had pretty much the same upbringing as I did, was not a great reader when we were young. So I