I only discovered this author within the last 6 months and have read 5 or 6 of his novels. I rated this one 3-star instead of the usual 4-star mostly because the level of gore was a little past my cut-off point. The plot was extremely well-developed and complex; the writing style was fascinatin...
I was surprised to find that there was a "Florida mystery" series, a la Travis McGee (starting with The Deep Blue Goodbye) and even Carl Hiaasen's books, that I hadn't read or, in fact, even heard of before. This was poet James Hall's Thorn series, which opens with Under Cover of Daylight, writte...
This book was fun! I enjoyed the quirky characters and situations and it was a quick, engrossing read. Only problem is when I compared my reaction with the cover reviews... it seemed like I'd just finished a totally different book than THEY were talking about! Did I just plain miss the serious...
I liked the first Thorn book (Under Cover of Daylight), despite its idiosyncracies, that I immediately grabbed the second book in the series, Tropical Freeze. Very similar to the first, especially in its way of telling the "mystery" from all points of view, including both the villians and the her...
http://www.miamisunpost.com/archives/...Bound 03/08/07102 in the ShadeIn James W. Hall’s Magic City, Even the Shadows Have Shadows— and They BurnKey rats and cops, Cuban ultra-nationalists and paid-for politicos, all with secrets to be kept— or else.By John HoodMiami seethes with story. High, low...
I learned something about Cherokee Indians and also about schizophrenia from this crime novel. And then there were some truly nasty characters that were conceived in "the forests of the night." Here's a quote:"What she [Charlotte, the cop protagonist] absorbed in those lonesome hours in the fores...