James W Hall
1) Magic city
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A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House.What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph...
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Eighteen years ago, a girl shot down a rapist while her father's lawnmower sputtered in the yard outside. Somewhere in the heat and shadows of that day, Alexandra Rafferty took on the burden of her deed, and forged a bond of silence with her cop father. But now Alexandra's husband has left, her father is clinging to his health, and a Miami serial killer is leaving behind death scenes that go beyond the horrific. For Alexandra, her life and work are...
3) Silencer
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"Silencer" pits brother against brother against wife against husband in a thriller that proves once again that Hall is a master of suspense."--Publisher's Weekly.
4) Hell's Bay
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Wealthy Florida matron Abigail Bates is on a canoe trip down a backwater river when suddenly, from out of nowhere, she is held underwater to drown by a strange and merciless killer...Thorn is aboard a houseboat in Hell's Bay when he is confronted by Abigail's son and alluring granddaughter. Thorn soon learns that they are his long-lost relatives-and that he is about to inherit a great fortune. He's also about to find out that being a member of the...
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James W. Hall is the critically acclaimed author of eleven crime novels, including Body Language and Blackwater Sound. He's also published four books of poetry. And, several of his short stories have appeared in magazines like the Georgia Review and Kenyon Review.
Now, writing in the spirit of Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Hall wins a new kind of reader with this collection of essays that run from insightful to opinionated, funny to wise.
Hall...
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All kinds of evolved life forms wash up on the beaches of Key West, just waiting for a chance to wreak havoc on the general population. Take Douglas Barnes, president of Barnes Waste Management, who gets his jollies by sending some amazing things into the outer atmosphere; or Dougie Barnes, who has a predilection for poetry, parrots and perversion. Into this haven for the insane waltzes Trula Montoya, a former TV actress with a secret, and Shaw Chandler,...
10) Going Dark
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Minotaur Books
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2013.
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"Florida private investigator Daniel Thorn is worried when he learns that his recently discovered son, Flynn Moss, has innocently become involved with Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a radical environmental group responsible for arson and considered a top terrorist threat by the FBI."-- Library Journal Prepub.
11) Mean high tide
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Thorn novels volume 3
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Delacorte Press
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1994.
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In the process of investigating the death of his girlfriend, Dick Thorn stumbles on a plot which threatens environmental disaster. A demented fish farmer in Florida is breeding killer fish to wipe out marine life.
13) Buzz cut
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Thorn novels volume 5
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Delacorte Press
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[1996]
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English
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In Miami, a plot to hijack a gambling cruise ship for ransom sends security men Thorn and Sugarman into action. The villain is a murderer who has a grudge against the ship's owners. By the author of Mean High Tide.
14) Red sky at night
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Thorn novels volume 6
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Delacorte Press
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[1997]
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English
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Fisherman Thorn of Key Largo investigates the beheading of a dozen dolphins. He discovers it was the work of a professor who needed the heads for experiments, using veterans as guinea pigs. All highly illegal, but the prof is not about to surrender. By the author of Buzz Cut.
15) Gone wild
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Thorn novels volume 4
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Delacorte Press
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1995.
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An action-adventure story in Malaysia, starring Florida's Dick Thorn. He goes to the aid of Allison Farleigh, president of the Wildlife Protection League, whose daughter is killed while accompanying her on a census of orangutans in Borneo. The killers turn out to be an international ring engaged in illegal trade of rare animals.