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Jim Fusilli was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the year On the Waterfront was filmed in that small town. He attended Roman Catholic schools for 16 years, and was graduated from St. Peter's College in Jersey City, where he was on the staff of the school newspaper and radio station. For a number of years, Jim wrote songs and played guitar in rock bands in and around Greenwich Village.
Jim wrote a music column for The Jersey Journal for several years before he began to contribute to The Wall Street Journal, for whom he has written since 1983. Jim also is a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and, since 2002, has served as the mysteries book reviewer for The Boston Globe.
Tribeca Blues the third book in his series featuring private investigator Terry Orr and his daughter Bella, will be published by Putnam in October 2003. The debut novel, Closing Time, was published in 2001 and its sequel, A Well-Known Secret, in 2002, both by Putnam. Closing Time was published in paperback in 2002 by Berkley.
A fourth installment in the Terry Orr series, tentatively titled The Judas Coins, is planned for 2004.
Jim and his wife Diane, a public relations executive, live in New York. Their daughter Cara attends college in New York. His official website is http://www.jimfusilli.com.
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Well-Known Secret
Terry Orr's latest case concerns Sonia Salgado, recently released after thirty years in prison for the robbery and murder of diamond dealer Asher Glatzer. When Terry discovers her battered body in an East Village halfway house, the ensuing investigation leads him back to the brutal city of the seventies, where seeds of corruption were first sown. Terry is soon at odds with an influential cop harboring family secrets; a smooth-talking Hispanic civic leader; and Julie Giada, the angel in the DA's office. At the same time, Terry tries to do right by daughter Bella while grappling with the memories of his lost wife and son and a forever-changed New York City.
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Jim Fusilli's Summer Reading List
Crazy in Berlin
by Thomas Berger
Berger is one of my favorite writers, and I need to revisit this first novel in his Reinhardt series for pleasure and to admire the skill of his work. /font>
Hunger
by Elise Blackwell
Elise and I were on a panel together not long ago, and I'm intrigued to read her novel about science, survival and moral ambiguity during the "winter of hunger" in Leningrad in 1942.
Provinces of Night
by William Gay
A story of a bright, wary teen-age boy, abandoned by his colorful yet troubled family in rural Tennessee, who's reunited with his grandfather whose past includes murder. Gay's sparse writing is full of insight and terror.
The Locusts Have No King
by Dawn Powell
Powell's satirical take on New York Society in the late '40s. She's fabulous writer, with a keen eye and a stinging wit.
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
by Jim Thompson, Robert Polito, Patricia Highsmith, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Chester Himes
Goodis, Highsmith, Himes, Thompson, Willeford. Five familiar novels, teeming with great, hard-boiled writing and unsavory character. A tutorial for crime writers.
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