I'm a novelist (River Runs Red, Missing White Girl, the forthcoming Cold Black Hearts make up a loose trilogy of border-related supernatural thrillers, the teen horror quartet Witch Season, horror epic The Slab, and more, including tie-ins based on such properties as CSI and CSI: Miami, Spider-Man, Supernatural, Buffy, Angel and more) and comic book writer (Desperadoes, Presidential Material: Barack Obama, Zombie Cop, Graveslinger, and others). I'm also a co-owner of specialty bookstore Mysterious Galaxy. I live in southeastern Arizona on the Flying M Ranch.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey...just about anything else by those authors and Graham Greene, Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, William Goldman, Irwin Shaw, Charles Bowden, James Lee Burke, Stephen King, Richard Matheson...I'm not going to get into those who are personal friends because I don't want to risk hurting feelings by leaving anyone out. You know who you are!
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
TV: The Wire, The Shield, The Office, 30 Rock, The Rachel Maddow Show, Arrested Development, too many more...
Movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Casablanca, The Graduate, The Wicker Man, Jaws, Bullitt, The Searchers, Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Conversation, A Night at the Opera, Apocalypse Now, and on, and on...
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Hi Jeffery, I want to introduce you to my debut novel "A Circle of souls" which is a paranormal, murder, mystery thriller and a tale of justice and hope. Do visit www.acircleofsouls.com to read more about the book. Make sure you sign up to win an autographed copy of the book. Thanks for your time in advance.
Best regards
Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
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Best regards
Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.