Description:

Short Stories set in Florida.  Dark, twisted, sexy and violent.  The men and women in these stories are passionate and wild and unpredictable, and the writing is fast and muscular.  Dutch Leonard meets James Lee Burke.

From the Author

Includes the 2005 Edgar Award winning story "The Catch."

"The real pleasures in Jim Hall's books are the sensual ones of place and people. It's the honest feel of South Florida, with all its menacing rhythms and contagious lassitude, that Hall nails down so well." - Carl Hiaasen.

"Like top-drawer Dutch Leonard turned inside out...smart, observant, richly grotesque." - James Ellroy.

"Highly original and entertaining." - Elmore Leonard.

"James Hall's writing is astringent, penetrating, and unfailingly gripping long after you read the last page...The story and the characters crackle like lingering currents of electricity in your mind." - Dean Koontz.

"Not to be missed! James Hall started fast and gets better and better." - Tony Hillerman.

"James Hall is a writer I have learned from over the years. His people and places have more brush strokes than a van Gogh. He delivers taut and muscular stories about a place where evil always lurks below the surface." - Michael Connelly

"Hall nails you to the page until the suspense-laden climax." - Clive Cussler.


And for BLACKWATER SOUND (SMP 2002):

"Terrific...If you don't know the fine suspense novels of James W. Hall, this will get you off to a rousing start." - Scott Turrow.

"I believe no one has written more lyrically of the Gulfstream since Ernest Hemingway. James W. Hall's lovely descriptions of the Florida Keys and Grand Bahama, his detailed knowledge of the sea and hunt for giant Blue Marlin, his creation of fascinating characters, and his obvious love of the natural world make this book a wonderful reading experience." - James Lee Burke.

"A gorgeous and compelling novel about the merciless predators both in and above the waters of South Florida; it is all the better in that it offers the return of James W. Hall's masterwork, the marvelous Thorn. No writer working today uses language as elegantly as Hall, or more clearly evokes the shadows and loss that hide within the human heart." - Robert Crais.

"James W. Hall, the king of the Florida-gothic noir, delivers across the board with Blackwater Sound. Chock-full of vivid characters, startingly explosive moments of ultra-violence, and seamlessly elegiac prose, Blackwater Sound is as sleek and relentlessly propulsive as a marlin on Benzedrine." - Dennis Lehane.

About the Author

The author of 16 novels, four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and now Over Exposure, a second collection of stories.  His latest novel, Dead Last, will be published in November of 2011, and his book on bestsellers (a non-fiction study of what makes the biggest bestsellers of all time tick) will be published by Random House in April of 2012.  He and his wife Evelyn divide their time between South Florida and the mountains of North Carolina.