James W. Hall Books In Order
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Under Cover of Daylight | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tropical Freeze | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mean High Tide | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gone Wild | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Buzz Cut | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Sky at Night | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackwater Sound | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Off the Chart | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magic City | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell's Bay | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silencer | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Last | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Going Dark | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Finish | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Axe | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trickster | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Harper McDaniel Books
When They Come for You | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When You Can't Stop | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Bones of Coral | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hard Aground | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Body Language | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rough Draft | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Forests of the Night | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Paper Products | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over Exposure and Six Other Stories | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All My Pwoblems | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Putt at the End of the World | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miami Noir | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Christmas | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
USA Noir | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
James W. Hall
James W. Hall is a writer, a professor in the writing program at Florida International University, and the friend and mentor of many other writers.
James was born in the year 1947 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He has his master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in creative writing as well as a doctorate in literature from the University of Utah. He was also a Fulbright professor of literature in Spain.
Between stints as a student, Hall has been a landscaper, a bartender, a marina worker, a handyman, a lifeguard, a summer camp dining hall manager, and a restaurant manager. He also dug post holes and built a fence for Robert Redford at his Sundance ranch.
He started his career as a poet. He founded the creative writing program at Florida International University during the early seventies, where he taught for forty years.
He and his wife Evelyn divide their time between the mountains of western North Carolina and South Florida. They have three dogs.
“The Catch”, a short story, won an Edgar Award. He won a John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Fiction, which was awarded to him by the JDM Bibliophile.
James wrote two screenplays based off his projects, “Bones of Coral” (with Les Standiford) and “Under Cover of Daylight”.
James’ debut novel, called “Under Cover of Daylight”, was released in the year 1987. He writes the “Thorn” series and the “Harper McDaniel” series as well as some stand alone novels, poetry and short story collections, and non-fiction books.
“Under Cover of Daylight” is the third novel in the “Thorn” series and was released in the year 1994. This is a story of revenge down in the Florida Keys. Thorn’s parents died the exact day he was born, getting run off of the road by some drunk driver on their way home from the hospital. The baby lived, while the offender was able to beat the rap. Both went on with their lives. Until nineteen years on, when Thorn got his revenge, hunting down the killer of his parents, taking the man’s life in his vain effort to bring back people that were lost.
Two decades later, Thorn is still scarred by this crime. He lives in Key West, selling fish flies and keeping an eye on the woman, named Kate Truman, that adopted him when he was just a baby. Now he’s lost her, as well, to a couple of savage killers whom the cops have no hope of locating. Thorn knows the Keys well, and he is going to find them, however before he gets his revenge he has to face the horror of that first time he killed somebody.
“Mean High Tide” is the third novel in the “Thorn” series and was released in the year 1994. Under the still blue waters just off Key Largo, one woman dives into a dazzling assortment of color. However, behind the shimmering schools of fish, somewhere deep in the shadows of the reef, there’s a death trap waiting. In just minutes, a life’s going to be savagely and expertly taken, another will be plunged into a mean season of obsession, fury, and revenge.
His name’s Thorn, his world is open waters, mangrove islands, and ghosts from an all too-violent past. Darcy Richards meant everything to him. Now figuring out who killed her is. Wading deep into a seething mystery, Thorn gets catapulted into a nightmare filled with deception and violence.
Here lurks one aging ex-mobster, a sensual young lady with a hard come-on, and a sinister former CIA guy. What they’ve all got in common is one another’s mad ruthlessness. As well as a little red fish that’s going to make some folks very rich with others ending up dead.
“When They Come for You” is the first novel in the “Harper McDaniel” series and was released in the year 2017. After her infant son and journalist husband are savagely executed during a fire in their Florida home, Harper McDaniel (a photographer) has nothing at all to live for. Except to settle the score. Harper, once the local cops fail to take the arson seriously, takes the reins up herself and learns that her husband was looking into some mysterious deaths at a cacao plantation right on the Ivory Coast. Now she is certain that he was targeted in some corporate conspiracy to shut him up.
Helped by her ex-mafioso grandpa and well-connected financier brother, she goes off on a global manhunt, flying to Africa, then to Zurich so she can expose a high-level cover-up inside of a powerful chocolate conglomerate.
However, Harper has got a few secrets of her own, beginning with her lethal martial arts abilities. And she isn’t afraid to take any hired guns or guerrillas that stand in her way on. In attempting to cover their tracks, the conspirators made a final miscalculation. They never counted on Harper McDaniel hunting for them.
“When You Can’t Stop” is the second novel in the “Harper McDaniel” series and was released in the year 2018. One dangerous international conspiracy, a woman’s quest for revenge, and ruthless corporations intertwine.
Despite the best efforts on Harper McDaniel’s part, the guy responsible for killing her son and husband got exonerated due to some clever legal wrangling. It’s a blatant injustice that’s just made her more determined than ever to bring the culprit down. Her ammo? The incriminating info she has about his olive oil operations in Italy. However, the clues that she follows lead her into the depths of a corrupt plot that’s more poisonous and it reaches further than she realized. More dangerous as well because her foe is ready for her pursuit.
Helped again by her grandpa and brother, she journeys across Spain from Seville to this one medieval castle, which is the home to a successful olive farmer and is one of the closest allies that Harper has. Harper, being shadowed the entire way by some merciless hitman, moves deeper into the territory of the enemy. She questions whom she’s ale to really trust during this personal path of revenge and justice.
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