Rachel Howzell Hall
Author Interview - Rachel Howzell Hall
Author of We Lie Here
This is the second time Rachel completed this author interview. Compare her answers to the last time she completed it, here.
TV writer Yara Gibson’ returns home to host her parents’ twentieth-anniversary party and find the perfect family mementos for the celebration. Everything is going to plan until Yara receives a disturbing text: I have information that will change your life. The message is from Felicia Campbell, who claims to be a childhood friend of Yara’s mother. Before Yara can connect with Felicia, the woman is found dead. Before she died, Felicia left Yara a key to a remote lakeside cabin. In the basement are files related to a mysterious tragedy, unsolved since 1998. The deeper Yara digs for answers, the more she fears that Felicia was right. Uncovering the truth about what happened at the cabin all those years ago will change Yara’s life—or end it.
Author Interview - Rachel Howzell Hall
Author I draw inspiration from: Stephen King
Author Interview - Rachel Howzell Hall | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book: On my couch in my light-filled living room.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird
Author Interview - Rachel Howzell Hall | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: Reading The Diary of Anne Frank in third grade.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Yes!
The last book I read: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Author Interview - Rachel Howzell Hall | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer: Pen and paper
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Dayna Day - Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
Author Interview - Rachel Howzell Hall | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Teacher
Favorite decade in fashion history: 1940s
My signature drink: Cabernet Sauvignon
Favorite artist: Ed Ruscha
Number one on my bucket list: Going to Mardi Gras
Anything else you'd like to add: One of my biggest fears is having all the time in the world to read but my glasses breaking, like in that tragic Twilight Zone episode.
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Twitter: @RachelHowzell
Author Bio: Rachel Howzell Hall is the critically acclaimed author of the Amazon Charts bestseller Thriller Award-nominated These Toxic Things and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated And Now She’s Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry-, Shamus- and Anthony Awards. Also author of the Audible Originals bestseller, Thriller Award- and Audie Awards-nominated How It Ends, Rachel is a New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, She’s received nominations and acclaim for They All Fall Down, an homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and for Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes and City of Saviors in the Detective Elouise Norton series.
Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and has been a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers Programs. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. For more information, visit www.rachelhowzell.com
