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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    April 2019
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Book List in Order: 15 titles



  • The novel of men and women larger than life, who seek their destiny in the dark bowels of the earth... JAMIE, the lusty, two-fisted young rebel who tried to prove his manhood by seduction... SARAH, who sought to purge her son of evil with a str...





  • When wealthy Rhea Gatlin's husband is found dead, struggling local prosecutor Billy Payne, an alcoholic agnostic, sees his chance to redeem himself, but his routine investigation turns into a nightmare of religious and sexual obsession...




  • William Hoffman alternates enduing themes of land and sea by taking inhabitants mostly of Virginia?s inland and Chesapeake Bay regions and making them thoroughly his own in this superb collection of stories. The stories deal with the clash between...



  • ``Hillbilly trash'' is an epithet hurled by rich, smug Wylie DuVal at his father's awkward errand-boy, Amos Cody, aka Pinky. Son of poor, rural West Virginians, Pinky, member of a Pentecostal religious sect, condemns Wylie's youthful sexual and boozi...



  • William Hoffman is a master storyteller, and Follow Me Home reveals him at his inimitable best. In these eleven brilliantly observed, superbly crafted stories, he explores one of the most secret places of the human heart―the corner where we keep...



  • The secret was buried deep within the high mountains of West Virginia. It spiraled down to a devastating legacy of betrayal, revenge, and rage that was destined to destroy a dynasty. Charley LeBlanc is the black sheep, a disgrace to the family nam...






  • The southern landscape that pervades William Hoffman's latest collection of short stories, "Doors, " is at once familiar and unsettling. Returning to the people and locales that define Hoffman's fiction ranging from the rednecks and the white-coll...



  • Walter B. Frampton II, Esq., has never been a hunter like his forefathers or even his best friend, Drake Wingo. He'd rather be sipping sour mash whiskey and listening to Mozart. But when Drake and Cliff Dickens, another old friend, ask him along on a...



  • In Wild Thorn, Charley LeBlanc returns to the place of his birth only to find himself caught up in corruption and intrigue. The black sheep of a distinguished Virginia family, Charley has now settled in Montana to escape his felonious past. When he h...



  • Declared the "best novel of the year" by the Cleveland Press when first published in 1966, Yancey's War is the story of ordinary men in an extraordinary off-the-main-track war. Marvin Yancey -- short, fat, over forty, sloppy, sycophantic, cowardly...



  • Young Wayland Garrett's life story is one composed of lies. Yet, that story is compelling, not only for the journey he takes to become a man but also for the language in which his story is told, deceptive though it may be. In words of quiet beauty an...



  • If you like the gripping novels of Dan Brown or Lee Child, this page-turning historical technothriller will leave you captivated and aching for more. "Captain Robert "Mac" Frank is a seasoned pilot whose life is centered around being in the captain s...


Award-Winning Books by William Hoffman

Tidewater Blood
1999 Hammett -- Best Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Hoffman has published 15 books.

William Hoffman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wings of Deceit, was published in April 2019.

The first book by William Hoffman, The Dark Mountains, was published in January 1963.

No. William Hoffman does not write books in series.