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Characters stripped of their pretenses, revealed, exposed. We see through cracks in the walls into their dark, erotic hidden lives. Men and women full of passion and obsession. Echoes of Daniel Woodrell, James Lee Burke. “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 Elroy. “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. Read More