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The 'Sara Williams, Novelist' Web Page
Sara Williams and her husband Bill landed on
the Island of Maui in their own sailboat some
thirty years ago, intent on visiting an old friend.
They loved Hawaii so much that they opened a
business in Lahaina and stayed for a decade.
Sara, a magazine writer and newspaper reporter,
became engrossed in the fascinating art, history
and culture of Hawaii.
One Big Itch, set in Honolulu during the Aloha Week Festival, is Sara's
excuse to talk story about Hawaii through the
voice of John Spyer, a soft-hearted sleuth who
has been rattling around in her subconscious for
decades.
When not sojourning in the Hawaiian Islands,
the Williamses are usually to be found in their
other favorite haunts, the San Juan Islands of
Washington State, or in the Florida Gulf Coast
city of Fort Myers, the DeLeon of Sara's first
novel, The Don Juan Con, which was optioned
in Hollywood by producer Robert Evans for Paramount Studios.
Latest Blog Entries:
Here I am in Seattle Mystery awaiting my turn at a thirty second conversation with the incomparably great novelist Michael Connelly, who sat graciously signing his latest novel, The Scarecrow, for scores of eager fans. As the line of fans snaked toward the signing table, Connelly and Bill Farley, ...
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Posted by Sara on Thu, 11 Jun 2009
One Big Itch is a series mystery that serves to explore the unique Hawaiian culture, which makes it something new under the tropical sun, said the Mystery Net Team when it opened discussion of the novel ...
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Posted by Sara on Mon, 01 Jun 2009
Enduring the last, dragging days of a lingering northern Michigan Winter as I was, Sara Williams' One Big Itch came as a welcome diversion. A great story with a strong plot, shared with Williams' unique voice, allowing this Missaukee County boy to escape Spring doldrums and visit the sweet, warm ...
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Posted by Sara on Fri, 15 May 2009
If you love characters, One Big Itch has plenty of them. If you love location, you'll fall in love with Sara's Hawaii, and if you love a suspenseful, race to the finish plot, One Big Itch will give you all you want. What a great read!
~~Don Bruns author of BAHAMA BURNOUT.
Posted by Sara on Thu, 14 May 2009
Sara Williams channels her inner Raymond Chandler with One Big Itch, an addictively readable tale set in Hawaii and featuring detective John Spyer. It abounds with local color and Hawaiian lore, and the story moves along at a fast clip as it builds toward the cliffhanger climax. You won’t see ...
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Posted by Sara on Fri, 08 May 2009
Lisa Black’s forensic novel Takeover puts her heroine Theresa MacLean on the front lines of a hostage situation as she risks all to save her fiancé homicide detective Paul Cleary. I rated this one a nail ...
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Posted by Sara on Wed, 24 Dec 2008
Bob Morris’s palm tree paladin Zack Chasteen offers a new meaning to the term cruise control in his nifty thriller, A Deadly Silver Sea. Read my review of this ...
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Posted by Sara on Wed, 24 Dec 2008
Just why it is that I read newspapers backwards, scouring my local newspaper for the two inch stories as opposed to the latest glaring headline, I can’t say. As a former newspaper reporter maybe I’m a news junkie. News to me isn’t about the big story, it’s about the small one, the two ...
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Posted by Sara on Mon, 22 Dec 2008
One of my very great pleasures is to meet a talented author reading from his latest book, which is how I first became acquainted with Matthew Goodman, author of The Sun and the Moon. I happened to be ...
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Posted by Sara on Mon, 03 Nov 2008
I haven't even seen Wood Allen's latest movie and already it stirs memories of the time two of my girlfriends toured Italy while I had to stay home and work. They got into a terrible hissy over what neither of them needed, an Italian stone manson. "...the most beautiful man I have ever seen,
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Posted by Sara on Wed, 13 Aug 2008
“Be gruntled. Start building,” screams the full-page newspaper ad by Careerbuilder.com. I’m hooked. Gruntled? What kind of word is that?
Disgruntled is a word we all know, especially in the context of the disgruntled employee who pulls a pistol at the office. Come to think of it, ...
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Posted by Sara on Fri, 28 Mar 2008
“How was I?”
“Subprime.”
How was your golf game, dear?
“Subprime.”
“And what do you think of the word of the year?”
“I’d say it was a subprime pick.”
“Subprime sucks?”
“Subzero is okay. Subzero is useful. Subprime’s a fad. It’s a ...
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Posted by Sara on Mon, 18 Feb 2008
Writers are readers? Yes, of course we are. That’s why I immediately answered novelist Katherine Stone’s e-mailed invitation to check out her web site, Writers are readers.com. ( Read More ]
Posted by Sara on Thu, 17 Jan 2008
A series of waterfalls and spills doesn’t happen without steep hills and the Dolphin Hills
An hour or so out of Negril via the road to Savanna-La-Mar are steep enough. The trip along narrow, winding roads is ...
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Posted by Sara on Sun, 30 Dec 2007
Negril, Jamaica:
The morning sun polishes a smooth sea to a metallic sheen, a gorgeous but blinding sight, which is why the early diners take shelter under the thatched roof of the LTU Pub, the runway between ...
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Posted by Sara on Sat, 29 Dec 2007
Fort Myers, Florida
As usual I was running late for a mundane appointment, when I glanced out on the lake. There on the point just around the bend, a vision appeared, the likes of which I never expected to see: wood storks. A pair of them had just touched down in our sedate suburban ...
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Posted by Sara on Fri, 07 Dec 2007
It’s bad enough I can’t get a good night’s sleep. Now my computer can’t, either. The first message I got from the Windows wizard this morning is that my laptop can’t access its sleep network. I suppose I’ve infected my electronic pal with my insomniac habits. I fear the machine will ...
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Posted by Sara on Mon, 20 Aug 2007
Falling out of bed. Haven’t we all done this, either figuratively or imaginatively?
I would venture to say that we have. Beginning in toddlerhood. Ending in second childhood. There’s nothing unusual to be said about that.
Which is why I paid scant attention when some TV pundit ...
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Posted by Sara on Tue, 30 Jan 2007
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