Books by William Hoffman and Complete Book Reviews

William Hoffman, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-019798-8

Charley LeBlanc, the black sheep of a prominent family first introduced in Hoffman's Tidewater Blood, returns from Montana to his native Shawnee County in West Virginia for what he thinks will be a short visit. He is accompanied by his tough,...

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Tidewater Blood

William Hoffman, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $19.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56512-187-4

As a maiden voyage into the choppy waters of suspense, this virtually seamless 11th novel from the acclaimed Hoffman (Follow Me Home) is a rousing success. The abused, outcast youngest son of an arrogant Tidewater, Va., patriarch becomes the...

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Blood and Guile

William Hoffman, Author HarperCollins $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-019794-0

Following the rousing Tidewater Blood (1998), Hoffman delivers another outstanding novel, which begins with a seemingly simple, albeit unfortunate, hunting accident. Walter B. Frampton II, the bemused, slightly effete yet dogged lawyer from the...

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By Land, by Sea: Stories

William Hoffman, Author Louisiana State University Press $16.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1390-5

Self-doubt and the bitterness of loss are central to these 12 stories by a Southern writer whose novels include Godfires and The Land That Drank the Rain. Narrated in a variety of voicesfrom that of the fisherman's wife in ""Moorings'' to that of...

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Furors Die

William Hoffman, Author Louisiana State University Press $18.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1560-2

``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...

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Contract Killer: The Explosive Story of the Mafia's Most Notorious Hitman, Donald ""Tony the Greek"" Frankos

William Hoffman, Author, Lake Headley, With Thunder's Mouth Press $22.95 (305p) ISBN 978-1-56025-045-6

Donald Frankos, aka ``Tony the Greek,'' was a contract killer for the Mafia and at various times was also a pimp, drug dealer, burglar and loanshark. His story forms the basis of the most significant true crime book in memory, for Frankos gives...

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Follow Me Home: Short Stories

William Hoffman, Author, Oliver, Author Louisiana State University Press $22.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1835-1

Looking back is the motif that runs through these generally impressive stories from Hoffman, author of 10 novels (Furors Die) and two previous story collections (By Land, by Sea). Set in both the Appalachian region of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay

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Contract Killer

William Hoffman, Author, Lake Headly, Author, Hoffman, Author Pinnacle Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55817-788-8

This intriguing profile of the Mafia contract killer ``Tony the Greek'' offers revelations about the diappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa and other infamous crimes. Photos. (Feb.)

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Loud and Clear

William Hoffman, Author, Lake Headley, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1138-8

In 1976 Phoenix's Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was killed by a car bomb, but before he died he named his murderer. Given immunity, John Adamson implicated three others: Kemper Marley and James Robison were found guilty and sentenced to death;

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Doors

William Hoffman, Author University of Missouri Press $19.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8262-1238-2

The class-conscious citizens of Tobaccoton, Va., struggle with their all-too-human desires for personal and material self-improvement in this sensitive set of 10 linked stories whose lucid prose, Southern themes and religious motifs recall Flannery...

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Lies

William Hoffman, Author . River City $23.95 (254p) ISBN 978-1-57966-063-5

In Hoffman's lyrical 14th novel, "threatening shapes of memory... swirl in the darkness" of one man's worried mind. Wayland Garnett is a well-to-do, well-adjusted Florida businessman with an athletic younger wife, two adorable...

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