Timothy Hallinan

Timothy Hallinan (1942-) is an American thriller writer, based in Southern California and Southeast Asia. In the 1990s, Hallinan created the erudite private eye Simeon Grist, who appeared in a total of six novels, all set in Los Angeles. The series was widely and well reviewed, with some titles appearing on critics "Ten Best" lists for the year in which they appeared, such as that of the [http://www.droodreview.com/features/ecarchive.html Drood Review of Mystery] , but did not achieve widespread popularity. Hallinan returned to publication in 2007 with a second series, set in Bangkok, where he has lived off and on since the early 1980s. The new series features a rough-travel writer named Philip ("Poke") Rafferty, who has settled in the Thai capital and is in the process of trying to cobble together a family comprising Rose, the former go-go dancer he loves, and a precocious street urchin named Miaow. The first book in the series is " [http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061255809/A_Nail_Through_the_Heart/index.aspx A Nail Through the Heart] " (William Morrow).

In his non-writing career, Hallinan served as a consultant to some of America's top corporations, advising on issues of television sponsorship and audience-building. He also created a firm, Hallinan Consulting, that created educator's websites on behalf of a number of public television programs, including " [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/ The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow] ," " [http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/ Slavery in America] ," and " [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/index.html The Supreme Court] ." He now writes full-time.

Hallinan lives six months a year in Santa Monica, California, and six months a year in Southeast Asia.

Novels

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0451166000 The Four Last Things (1989)]

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JZ1V36 Everything But the Squeal (1990)]

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PWYFT0 Skin Deep (1991)]

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GTRLMU Incinerator (1992)]

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IX2MY6 The Bone Polisher (1993)]

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0380713713 The Man with No Time (1994)]

[http://www.timothyhallinan.com/nail.html A Nail Through the Heart (2007)]

Website: [http://www.timothyhallinan.com www.timothyhallinan.com]

External Links: [http://mostlyfiction.com/authorqa/hallinan.htm Mostlyfiction.com interview with Timothy Hallinan]