Off the Chart

`Hall has been one of my favourite crime writers for a long time. He's great. This is a bodacious novel: cool and violent, but with an energy that's hard to resist. Top of the class.' Mark Timlin, Independent on Sunday

`James Hall really pulls it all together in Blackwater Sound. If violence can be poetic, Hall has the lyric voice for it. Truly haunting.' New York Times

`James Hall, the king of Florida noir, delivers across the board with Blackwater Sound. Chock-full of vivid characters, startlingly explosive moments of ultra-violence and seamlessly elegiac prose'
DENNIS LEHANE

`Hall has always blazed a unique path through the killing fields of crime fiction. Blackwater Sound is another original and his best yet. With beautiful prose and a heavily muscled story, it moves with the grandeur and unpredictability of a hooked marlin'
MICHAEL CONNELLY

`A gorgeous and compelling novel about the merciless predators both in and above the waters of south Florida'
ROBERT CRAIS

James Hall was born in Kentucky. He teaches in the Creative Writing Programme at Florida International University in Miami.

`James Hall is the master of suspense, his writing runs as clear and fast as the Gulf Stream waters.'
New York Times Book Review