1--What is the title of your latest release?
STORM WARNING
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
The residents of a crumbling apartment building on a barrier island in Florida must contend with both a deadly hurricane and a murderer.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
My in-laws have lived on a barrier island in Florida for years, and I’ve always wanted to set a book there.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Yes, especially if I was trapped in a hurricane with a murderer after me.
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Loyal, determined, caring.
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
It’s fun to write a book with a large cast of characters.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
A little of both.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Utz potato chips.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
Wherever the laptop ends up. Usually with books and papers scattered around.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Too many to list, but I’ll name one—Hilary Mantel
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL by Virginia Lee Burton
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I was at my day job and the editor called. I nearly fell out of my chair.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
All of them.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
THE BLUE MAX
15--What is your favorite season?
Fall
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Quietly
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
THELMA (movie)
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Cincinnati chili
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Listen to a baseball game.
20--What can readers expect from you next?
My YA novel, NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW, will be out in 2025.
A man living on a Florida barrier island must protect his family from both an approaching hurricane and a relentless killer.
Jake Powell is racing to get off the island as a powerful hurricane approaches. When he finds his best friend Dallas, the building manager, dead from a blow to the skull, Jake realizes there’s more than the storm to fear. There’s a murderer on the island, maybe even still inside the nearly abandoned building.
Dallas had repeatedly run afoul of the wealthy owners of the building by complaining about code violations and the precarious state of the condos. But he’d also once told Jake that every resident had a secret they’d come to Florida to escape. Had one of them killed to conceal their sins? As a dozen people shelter together in hopes of surviving the deadly hurricane, a second murder makes it all too clear: one of them is a dangerous killer.
Thriller Psychological | Women's Fiction [Berkley, On Sale: June 25, 2024, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593549995 / eISBN: 9780593550007]
This High-Octane Thrill Ride Reads Like a Hurricane Barreling Towards You
David Bell is the USA Today-bestselling author of eight novels from Berkley/Penguin, including SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER, BRING HER HOME, SINCE SHE WENT AWAY, SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW, THE FORGOTTEN GIRL, NEVER COME BACK, THE HIDING PLACE, and CEMETERY GIRL. His work has been translated into numerous foreign languages, and in 2013, he won the prestigious Prix Polar International de Cognac for best crime novel by an international author. He is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University where he directs the MFA program in creative writing. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he spends his free time rooting for the Reds and Bengals, watching movies, and walking in the cemetery near his house. He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with his wife, writer Molly McCaffrey.
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