Off the Chart (Hall, James W.) - Hardcover

Hall, James W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312271786 ISBN 13: 9780312271787

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2003

Synopsis

Before Thorn fell in love with crime-scene photographer Alexandra Rafferty, he was involved with Anne Joy, a beautiful woman who abandoned a violent life to forge a new, happier one in the Florida Keys. But her past includes her sadistic brother Vic, now a wealthy rogue businessman who specializes in the hijacking of pleasure boats and who delights in cruelly murdering their owners. Vic is obsessed by his sister and will do whatever it takes to drive his sister's lovers away-even murder. When Vic decides that he must possess the land on which Thorn's beloved home is built, nothing will stand in his way-not even the life of a little girl, the daughter of Thorn's closest friend.

About this title

Review:

‘Hall has been one of my favourite crime writers for a long time. He’s great. This is a bodacious novel: cool and violent, but with an energy that’s hard to resist. Top of the class.’ Mark Timlin, Independent on Sunday

‘James Hall really pulls it all together in Blackwater Sound. If violence can be poetic, Hall has the lyric voice for it. Truly haunting.’ New York Times

‘James Hall, the king of Florida noir, delivers across the board with Blackwater Sound. Chock-full of vivid characters, startlingly explosive moments of ultra-violence and seamlessly elegiac prose’
DENNIS LEHANE

‘Hall has always blazed a unique path through the killing fields of crime fiction. Blackwater Sound is another original and his best yet. With beautiful prose and a heavily muscled story, it moves with the grandeur and unpredictability of a hooked marlin’
MICHAEL CONNELLY

‘A gorgeous and compelling novel about the merciless predators both in and above the waters of south Florida’
ROBERT CRAIS

About the Author:

James W. Hall lives in South Florida with his wife Evelyn and his dogs, Carrie and Stella.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312271786
• ISBN 13: 9780312271787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352