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Rachel Howzell Hall
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Rachel Howzell Hall
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Rachel Howzell Hall, author of the bestseller and Anthony Award-, Lefty Award- and ITW-award nominated They All Fall Down (Forge), writes the acclaimed Lou Norton series, including Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes, and City of Saviors. She is also the co-author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, which was included in the New York Times bestseller The Family Lawyer. She is currently on the board of directors for the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and lives in Los Angeles. Her next novel And Now She’s Gone will be published in September 2020. You can find her at www.rachelhowzell.com and on Twitter @RachelHowzell.

Agent:
Jill Marsal
Marsal Lyon Literary Agency

Other Published Works

A Quiet Storm, Scribner, September 2002
The View from Here, Amazon, November 2010
No One Knows You're Here, Amazon, November 2014
Land of Shadows, Forge, June 2014
Skies of Ash, Forge, May 2015
Trail of Echoes, Forge, May 2016
City of Saviors, Forge, August 2017
They All Fall Down, April 2019

Favorite Books

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Beloved by Toni Morrison
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Years Mentored
2020
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