Kiss Them Good-bye was my first novel, published in hardcover by William Morrow and Company in September, 1993. It was out of print, but…
MORROW DECIDED TO BRING IT BACK INTO PRINT, in paperback and ebook in 2016.
The book started as a simple remark by my wife, Pat. She and I were visiting the campus of a private school I attended during my high school years. She looked at me then looked around at the campus and said, “You should write about this. It’s so rich.”
But I imagined a very different school than the place I actually went. I set the novel at Ravenhill School, a creepy place that references the famous poem by the divine Edgar. Someone told me that if I wanted to get published, write a scary book. So I did.
Here you’ll find: the dust jacket of the book, advanced quotes, an excerpt, reviews, (including Kirkus, Armchair Detective and internet), a post card from a reading with master crime writer Elmore Leonard, and a television interview.