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Elm Street Book Group: UNDER COVER OF DAYLIGHT by James Hall

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (ET)

New Haven, United States

Elm Street Book Group: UNDER COVER OF DAYLIGHT by James Hall

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James W. Hall's debut novel  first introduced the rugged character Thorn and the breathtaking 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. Now, fifteen years later, Thorn still cannot escape that moment, or the darkness he took into his soul that night. Not even his best friend, Sugarman, knows the truth. Not even Sarah Ryan knows the depths of her lover’s pain.

Then suddenly, the nightmare begins again as Thorn’s foster mother is found slaughtered. Thorn can almost taste the rage as he stalks her killer and waits.

 

"An exciting, well-crafted first novel that smoothly places complex, believable characters into an action-filled plot."—Washington Post

 

 "It starts good and stays good, right to the end."—Chicago Tribune

 

 

Chapter One
 
Alexandra began shooting at fifty yards. She worked slowly toward the four-story building, taking several wide-angle shots of the whole structure. A stucco apartment building with red tile roof and dark green stairways and landings, here and there a coral rock facade. In that part of Coconut Grove, two bedrooms started at eight hundred a month. Sporty compacts filled the parking lot, owned by the young lawyers and stockbrokers who populated these buildings, twenty-something singles with more expendable income than Alexandra had take-home pay.

She got a wide-angle shot of the cars. You never knew when a perp might leave his vehicle behind. Car trouble, panic, even arrogance. A year earlier, after studying hundreds of photos of two different murder scenes, Alexandra had spotted the same car parked at both, a fact that broke the case.

It took her four shots to get all the cars near the apartment. The Minolta 700 SI she was using was motor-driven, had an autofocus, ....Read more

 

 

Elm Street Book Group meets on the third Wednesday of each month at New Haven Public Library, 133 Elm St.  Drop-ins are always welcome!  Register to pick up your free coffee for the discussion (thanks, BLUE STATE!).

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133 Elm St
New Haven, 06510

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (ET)


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The Main (Ives) branch of the New Haven Free Public Library system is located at 133 Elm St., across from the New Haven Green, corner of Elm and Temple. Yale Lot #51 on Temple Street (across the street from the library) opens to the public at 4pm, and there are 2-hour parking meters on streets surrounding the library. More information may be found at www.cityofnewhaven.com/library.

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