Paul L. Hall has published two previous novels in the Stephen Fargo series--Our Father and The Big Island--as well as poetry, short stories and articles in publications such The Paris Review, Reader's Digest, The Sun, and numerous trade publications. His most recent novel, Places the Dead Call Home, earned a Midwest Independent Publishers Association Award (2006), an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY, 2007), a Reader Views Reader Reviewers Choice Award (2007) and a Next Generation Indie Book Award (2008).