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Michael

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About Me


After a seven-year stint in the Florida State Prison System, Michael Lister was paroled and began to put pen to paper. The result was gun lit set in the Sunshine StateFlorida Noir (www.FloridaNoir.com)His first two noir stories, one classic, one contemporary, are featured in the anthology NORTH FLORIDA NOIR, which he edited. In a Spiders Web is classic noir featuring PI Jimmy Soldier Riley, while Mitigating Circumstances is neo-noir involving the slow burn of a family disintegrating in the small coastal town of Port St. Joe, Florida.His first noir novel, THE BIG GOODBYE features PI Jimmy Soldier Riley, a young knight errant who walks the wartime streets of Panama City, Florida, wounded and woman-haunted.When asked for a comment, the author said, Its a bitter little world, baby.Michael Lister is also the author of a series of mysteries featuring ex-cop turned prison chaplain, John Jordan (POWER IN THE BLOOD, BLOOD OF THE LAMB, THE BODY AND THE BLOOD, FLESH AND BLOOD), and writes a monthly crime fiction column titled Sunshine and Crime (www.SunshineandCrime.com). For more about the author, go to www.MichaelLister.com
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My Interests

Books --- writing and reading them, Movies, Basketball, film, Mustangs, Art and Religion, Mustangs

I'd like to meet:

You and your mama

Music:

Blues, Rock, alternative

Movies:

Casablanca, It's A Wonderful Life, Chinatown,

Television:

House, MYSTERY, Punk'd Heat Basketball

Books:

By Me: North Florida Noir, Flesh and Blood, Power in the Blood, Blood of the Lamb, The Big GoodbyeFavs: Graham Greene, Philip Roth, Denis LeHane, Robert B. Parker, Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly, Walter Mosely, James Lee Burke

Heroes:

Jesus, Shakespeare, MLK, Graham Greene, Thomas Moore,

My Blog

Website

Check out my website: www.MichaelLister.com
Posted by Michael on Fri, 19 May 2006 06:49:00 PST