James W Hall
1) Magic city
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A simple black-and-white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House.What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph...
2) Silencer
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Minotaur Books
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2010.
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English
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Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it from developers. Spearheading the plan to save this environmental treasure was Thorn, a reluctant heir to a secret family fortune, who now finds himself in terrible danger as well. A pair of deviant brothers, both contract killers, kidnap and imprison him in a sinkhole-a dungeon from which there is no...
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2002.
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The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared-hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting-he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells.
Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, killing all aboard. Helping
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St. Martin's Press
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1998.
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English
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Florida police photographer Alexandra Rafferty is told by her husband that if she reveals his million-dollar robbery, he will reveal that as a girl she killed her rapist. At that Alexandra's father, a former policeman steals the loot and father and daughter flee. An offbeat thriller by the author of Red Sky at Night.
5) Hell's Bay
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Wealthy Florida matron Abigail Bates is on a canoe trip down a backwater river when suddenly, from out of nowhere, she is held underwater to drown by a strange and merciless killer...Thorn is aboard a houseboat in Hell's Bay when he is confronted by Abigail's son and alluring granddaughter. Thorn soon learns that they are his long-lost relatives-and that he is about to inherit a great fortune. He's also about to find out that being a member of the...
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Knopf
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1991.
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English
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All kinds of evolved life forms wash up on the beaches of Key West, just waiting for a chance to wreak havoc on the general population. Take Douglas Barnes, president of Barnes Waste Management, who gets his jollies by sending some amazing things into the outer atmosphere; or Dougie Barnes, who has a predilection for poetry, parrots and perversion. Into this haven for the insane waltzes Trula Montoya, a former TV actress with a secret, and Shaw Chandler,...
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"A year ago Thorn's son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives, he's intercepted by a federal agent who informs him he's too late--Flynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI, and when his traitorous acts were discovered,...
8) Going dark
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Minotaur Books
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2013.
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English
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"Florida private investigator Daniel Thorn is worried when he learns that his recently discovered son, Flynn Moss, has innocently become involved with Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a radical environmental group responsible for arson and considered a top terrorist threat by the FBI."--
9) Dead last
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Minotaur Books
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[2012]
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English
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Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show and pits Thorn against a killer--or killers--whose motives are as elusive as their identities. The killings take place in Miami, where Thorn joins forces with a young policewoman from Oklahoma who is investigating the murders.
10) Off the chart
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Thorn and Alexandra Rafferty team up in a desperate struggle for survival when a sadistic modern-day pirate, Vic, tries to kill Thorn for having once had a relationship with Anne Joy, the pirate's sister.
11) Gone wild
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Thorn P.I ; 4
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1995.
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English
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An action-adventure story in Malaysia, starring Florida's Dick Thorn. He goes to the aid of Allison Farleigh, president of the Wildlife Protection League, whose daughter is killed while accompanying her on a census of orangutans in Borneo. The killers turn out to be an international ring engaged in illegal trade of rare animals.
13) Red sky at night
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Fisherman Thorn of Key Largo investigates the beheading of a dozen dolphins. He discovers it was the work of a professor who needed the heads for experiments, using veterans as guinea pigs. All highly illegal, but the prof is not about to surrender. By the author of Buzz Cut.
14) Tropical freeze
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Thorn ; 2
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English
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When his boyhood friend, now an FBI agent, disappears, Thorn, a fisherman in Key Largo, becomes entangled in a web of violence and intrigue that takes him from seamy local bars to fancy ocean villas, and almost costs him his life.
18) Mean high tide
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Delacourte Press
Pub. Date
1994.
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English
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In the process of investigating the death of his girlfriend, Dick Thorn stumbles on a plot which threatens environmental disaster. A demented fish farmer in Florida is breeding killer fish to wipe out marine life.
19) Hard aground
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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From James W. Hall, best-selling author of Bones of Coral, comes a haunting new novel that sizzles with greed, lust, and murder, as it brilliantly evokes the secrets, betrayals, and family legacies that can either destroy or redeem. Set in the crime-ridden waters of southern Florida, Hard Aground tells the story of Hap Tyler. A tour guide and part-time sailboard builder, Hap is a man without direction, adrift in the teeming sea of life - until his...
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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After her journalist husband and infant son are brutally executed in a fire in their Florida home, photographer Harper McDaniel has nothing left to live forexcept settling the score. When the local police fail to take the arson seriously, Harper takes the reins and discovers her husband was investigating some mysterious deaths at a cacao plantation on the Ivory Coast. Now shes convinced he was targeted in a corporate conspiracy to silence him.Aided...
