James W. Hall

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1987
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Harper McDaniel

1 - When They Come for You (Sep-2017)
2 - When You Can't Stop (Aug-2018)

Thorn

1 - Under Cover of Daylight (Sep-1987)
2 - Tropical Freeze/Squall Line (Jan-1989)
3 - Mean High Tide (Mar-1994)
4 - Gone Wild (Mar-1995)
5 - Buzz Cut (Jun-1996)
6 - Red Sky at Night (Jun-1997)
7 - Blackwater Sound (Jan-2002)
8 - Off the Chart (May-2003)
9 - Magic City (Mar-2007)
10 - Hell's Bay (Feb-2008)
11 - Silencer (Jan-2010)
12 - Dead Last (Nov-2011)
13 - Going Dark (Dec-2013)
14 - The Big Finish (Dec-2014)
15 - Bad Axe (Jun-2020)
16 - Trickster (Jul-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

28 - The Haze (Sep-2016)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Under Cover of Daylight

    Thorn - 1

    James W. Hall’s haunting debut novel introduced the rugged character Thorn and the breathtaking dangerous South Florida landscape where he lives. Thorn’s past includes a savage act of revenge on the drunken hit-and-run killer of his parents. Fift...

  • Tropical Freeze/Squall Line

    Thorn - 2

    Thorn is back! The hero of last year's surprise suspense hit, Under Cover of Daylight, Thorn is a Key Largo fisherman turned avenger despite himself and cursed with a nose for trouble. The mysterious disappearance of his boyhood friend, an FBI agent,...

  • Squall Line

    Thorn is back! The hero of last year's surprise suspense hit, Under Cover of Daylight, Thorn is a Key Largo fisherman turned avenger despite himself and cursed with a nose for trouble. The mysterious disappearance of his boyhood friend, an FBI agent,...

  • Paper Products

    In these funny, lyrical, and often sexy tales, James Hall’s people … eccentrics and misfits, diehards and outcasts … are both magical and hilariously real. The mayor of a fading Kentucky town changes its fate by renaming it Miami Beach and mes...

  • Bones of Coral

    Like any big-city paramedic, Shaw Chandler had probably seen a thousand suicides. But he knows a murder when he sees one - and this time it's his own father. Suddenly he's got a metal canister marked 'U.S. Navy' in his hands, as he's dragged back to ...

  • Hard Aground

    450 years ago a treasure ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up yet... Hap Tyler sailboards on Biscayne Bay, hears voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge of history in his family's old-money mansion amid Miami's pastel glitz. Bu...

  • Mean High Tide

    Thorn - 3

    Beneath the still blue waters off Key Largo a woman dives into a dazzling array of color. But behind the shimmering schools of fish, somewhere in the shadows of the reef, a death trap awaits. In minutes one life will be expertly, brutally taken, and ...

  • Gone Wild

    Thorn - 4

    THE JUNGLE WAS EERILY QUIET...THEN TWO ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS RIFLE BLASTS CUT HER DAUGHTER'S SCREAM IN HALF. THE EXPLOSIONS ECHOED THROUGH THE FOREST, SWEPT LIKE ICY WINDS DOWN THE DARK CANYONS OF ALLISON'S HEART... As her daughter lay dead on the j...

  • Buzz Cut

    Thorn - 5

    In the quiet shallows of the Florida Keys, Thorn has made a home, tying fishing flies and trying to forget the violence of his past. Now Key Largo is his world. He fishes it, breathes it, makes love in it. Until a phone call from Miami changes everyt...



  • Red Sky at Night

    Thorn - 6

    It happens in an instant. A man’s life is ripped form the safe harbor he’s almost found, hurtled back into the violence he has been running from for years. The man’s name is Thorn. While investigating the bizarre slaughter of eleven trained dol...

  • Body Language

    Eighteen years ago, a girl shot down a rapist while her father's lawnmower sputtered in the yard outside. Somewhere in the heat and shadows of that day, Alexandra Rafferty took on the burden of her deed, and forged a bond of silence with her cop fath...

  • Rough Draft

    After the brutal murders of her parents, mystery novelist Hannah Keller quit the Miami P.D. to devote more time to writing, and to her eleven-year-old son Randall - still haunted by the discovery of his grandparents' bodies five years ago. But just w...

  • Blackwater Sound

    Thorn - 7

    It comes out of nowhere - an airliner silently dropping from the sky into the torpid shallows of Florida's Blackwater Sound. Thorn witnesses the crash and pulls the survivors to safety, soon finding himself thrust into the media spotlight as a reluct...

  • Off the Chart

    Thorn - 8

    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,...

  • Forests of the Night

    ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LOOK... Policewoman Charlotte Monroe has an ability that borders on psychic--to read people's faces and body language, sizing up their intentions and acting before they do. It's a real ability that the FBI is trying to teach to i...

  • Magic City

    Thorn - 9

    Based on real events, and newly declassified documents, Magic Citylike the films L.A. Confidential and Chinatownevokes a time in our nations history when powerful men were willing to do whatever they thought necessary to achieve their goals. A simple...

  • Hell's Bay

    Thorn - 10

    Master of suspense James W. Hall's Hell's Bay sends Thorn deep into the wilds of South Florida, in a story with all the haunting atmosphere of Deliverance and the sheer terror of Cape Fear. Descended from pioneer stock, the Bateses are an aristocr...

  • Silencer

    Thorn - 11

    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 hei...

  • All My Pwoblems

    Collected Poems, including the Spiderman poem, by James W. Hall, aka Jim Hall. 20 years of poetry, including four separate volumes, three originally published by Carnegie Mellon University Press and one by Ampersand Press....



  • Dead Last

    Thorn - 12

    From an acclaimed “master of suspense”(New York Times Book Review) comes a thriller in which Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show April Moss writes obituaries for the...

  • Going Dark

    Thorn - 13

    Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered around the country. These extremists take a "by any means necessary" approach to defending the planet. In the last decade ELF has be...

  • The Big Finish

    Thorn - 14

    It has been one year since Thorn Moss's son, Flynn, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. When a new postcard from Flynn arrives--with a plea for help--Thorn sets off for Nor...

  • The Haze

    Bibliomysteries - 28

  • When They Come for You

    Harper McDaniel - 1

    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 for -- except settling the score. When the local police fail to take the arson seriously, Harper ...

  • Over Exposure and Six Other Stories

  • When You Can't Stop

    Harper McDaniel - 2

    One woman’s quest for revenge, a dangerous international conspiracy, and ruthless corporations intertwine in this page-turner from bestselling author James W. Hall. Despite Harper McDaniel’s best efforts, the man responsible for the murder of ...

  • Bad Axe

    Thorn - 15

    A simple favor. Recover 23 stolen landmines filled with VX nerve gas and rescue a young Honduran girl, Dulce, from a band of murderous white supremacists. Most people would say no. Most people aren't THORN. From a Pacific Island base in the past, to ...

  • Trickster

    Thorn - 16

Award-Winning Books by James W. Hall

Blackwater Sound
2002 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James W. Hall has published 28 books.

James W. Hall does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Trickster, was published in July 2022.

The first book by James W. Hall, Under Cover of Daylight, was published in September 1987.

Yes. James W. Hall has 2 series.
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