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Craig Nova is a published author that readers may have heard of but definitely will want to check out!

Craig is not sure why he spent so many years in a room attempting to write well. He thinks that it has to do with some basic facts of his life like growing up in Hollywood, attending school at Berkeley and Columbia, and residing in New York City.

He says that the house that his parents owned was north of Mulholland Drive. From there he was able to see the Universal back lot and could see the movies being made through the field glasses owned by his father. This would end up ruining going to the movie theater since the author would go to movies and see an actor be in what was supposed to be Africa but was across the Hollywood freeway from the house, something that taught him that story telling elements were infinitely able to be adjusted.

The author recounts that growing up in Hollywood was useful when it came to writing his book Double Solitaire, since the story focuses on a man who goes out and fixes messes for famous people.

In New York, the author thought of himself like being a young Balzac. He was invited to black tie dinner parties and would go home and change, heading over to the Bowery to drink with members of the Hells Angels. Nova relates that the stories that one is able to collect while doing this are ones that want to be written.

Nova’s father in law served as a fighter pilot and was shot down in World War II. He would spend three years trapped in a German prison camp. He also enjoyed telling stories that he had about the experience and in Nova’s opinion they were just begging to be put into a book.

Jean Stafford was a short story writer who won a Pulitzer Prize and was one of the ones who took him under her wing while he was in New York, saying that she had a ‘profound influence’ on him. Underneath all of it, the critical moment is that up until he was 14 years old he wanted to be a surgeon. Upon reading a book by Albert Camus, it was all over, and from that moment on Nova knew what he wanted to do.

The life of writing can be addictive. The time that is spent writing a book is so enjoyable according to Craig and so much like a drug that ‘after a certain point’, he says, you cannot live without it. If you tell a story that you believe to be true then you have also find something that you believe. The writing life starts to become a way that many things can be organized, such as loyalty, morality, and what one is able to do with the time that one has.

All the Dead Yale Men is a 2013 book by Craig Nova. This is a book that takes off and continues the story that was started in the 1982 book The Good Son which looked into the entanglements that fathers and sons have that are all expressed in the story of Pop Mackinnon, a newly rich father who chose to use his wealth to manipulate his son Chip into getting married into the right kind of marriage once he had come back from the second world war.

Chip decided to give up the love of his life and get married the right way so that he could lock down his future, and the consequences of that decision were huge. This story tells what happened after that and what those consequences were, telling the story of Chip’s son Frank Mackinnon.

Frank is a prosecutor in Boston. He is happily married and has a daughter who is about to follow in his footsteps and attend law school. Chip dying ends up putting Frank into the legacy of his family. There he has to deal with the inheritance of the land of the Mackinnons and the many secrets that go back three generations.

When Frank’s daughter Pia falls under the influence of Aurlon Miller, a local bad boy, the grief that he feels over the death of his father ends up leading to the family legacy of social standing and manipulation and causing it to start again. This will end up taking Frank to the edge of what a father is willing to do when it comes to protecting those that he cares about.

This book takes a look at the conclusion of an era and also takes a look at how inheritance and privilege so often fall apart in the face of the modern world. The story is enriched even further by the setting as well as the mythology of Boston and all that comes with it and stands around it. Read the furthered story of the Mackinnons and get your hands on a new American classic by reading this book from Craig Nova!

Double Solitaire is the first book in the Quinn O’Farrell series by Craig Nova. This is an LA thriller that is going to keep readers on their feet and will be great for fans of noir or anything having to do with detectives or mysteries.

Main character Quinn O’Farrell is a fixer in Los Angeles. This means that he cleans up the messes made by other people who can afford to hire him to do so. Also known as rich people. He gets paid well and has become so skilled at what he does that many people in Hollywood depend on him. He has come up with a working moral framework so that he’s able to live with himself despite what he does.

When Rose Marie moves in next door, things are about to change. She works with ill teens and Quinn somehow falls in love with his new neighbor, which goes against all of his rules and instincts for survival. He also grows to really like her patients, but when a client goes over the line and Quinn is brought in to clean up, his ethical house of cards stands ready to fall.

Furious over having deceived himself, Quinn is about to bring a reckoning on Hollywood’s power elites and he doesn’t care if he goes down with them. What will this storm bring? Read the first in this series from Craig Nova to find out.