Hells Bay - The Novel

James W. Hall - New mystery novel 'Hells Bay' dedicated to fishing guide Geoff Colmes to premier at Miami International Boat Show..

Hell's Bay Boatworks is celebrating its 10th year with a new boat. Coincidentally, Hell's Bay - the just released book in James W. Hall's popular Thorn murder mystery collection of novels - is the 10th in the series. The two will meet at the Miami International Boat Show as Hell's Bay introduces its newest 18' skiff the Boca Grande and Hall signs his newest novel in the show booth #3390 on Sunday..

Both the book and boat line are named for the legendary area in the middle of Florida's Everglades that old time Floridians said was "hell to get into and hell to get out of." Best selling and Edgar Award winning author James W. Hall will be at the Hell's Bay booth on Sunday, Feb. 17th from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. signing the novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "another compulsive page-turner from a master of suspense," and the NY Times Book Review declared "if violence can be poetic, Hall has the lyric voice for it.."

A Key Largo resident and former owner of a Hell's Bay, Hall has fished countless times with Capt. Geoff Colmes, a Hell's Bay guide to whom Hall has dedicated the book. "The idea for the book came from Geoff who created a houseboat as a mothership to live on while fishing deep in the Everglades," said Peterson. "Local personalities are mentioned in the novel including a fly created by Florida Keys legend Rick Ruoff. "Hall's reclusive hero is Thorn, a fishing guide and outdoorsman with little use for society especially industrialists involved in the creeping destruction of the state's natural environment." Peterson smiled. "It's a very enjoyable book that's hard to put down with Thorn repeatedly taking on criminals in a carnivore's paradise, thick with alligators and sharks and just as many twists and turns as there is in getting in and out of Hell's Bay.."

Learn more about fishing in the Florida Keys and Everglades National Park by visiting Geoff's website floridakeysflyfish.com