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Alan Hruska

What Sparks Sequels?

By Alan Hruska

March 2, 2019

Writing fiction is not a matter of choice, for me—any more than it is for others, I think, who do it every day of the week. So the question presented really breaks down into three: What makes us write at all? What made us write about the particular characters we chose in the first place?…

Accidental Research … Into the Mob

By Alan Hruska

I write books, mostly thrillers. But earlier, and for many years, I tried civil cases, large and small, of almost every variety. I never thought of it as research for writing, but of course, it was. I also never thought that any of it—being almost entirely civil not criminal—would lead me into Mafia territory, much…

Fresh Meat: Pardon the Ravens by Alan Hruska

By Leigh Neely

February 6, 2015

Pardon the Ravens by Alan Hruska is a legal thriller set in 1960s New York about a young lawyer who falls for a mobster's wife and risks losing it all (available February 10, 2015). This is another good mystery with great courtroom drama and the continual inner battle of a good man who has to…

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