Heads up everyone! Alan just signed a deal with Turner Network Television (TNT) to produce a two-hour TV movie of The 7th Victim. TNT has selected a screenwriter and plans to begin production early 2012.
The 7th Victim is the first novel in the Special Agent Karen Vail series.
Be sure to read Alex C. Telander’s review of Alan Jacobson’s Inmate 1577. Click here to read the review.
In Jacobson’s complex fourth novel featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail (after Velocity), San Francisco Police Inspector Lance Burden turns to the D.C.-based Vail for help in solving the murder of 82-year-old Maureen Anderson, who was tortured and brutalized at her house in the city’s Marina district. Anderson’s husband, William, is later found dead, tied to the base of a column in the Palace of Fine Arts. Other similar murders rapidly follow. Insp. Robert Friedberg, reporter Clay Allman, and Roxxann Dixon, “an investigator with the Napa County District Attorney’s office,” lend assistance as Vail becomes increasingly frustrated by the rising body count and the killer’s taunts. Alternating chapters detail the bad luck tale of prison inmate Walton MacNally, from the murder of his wife in 1955 to his career as a thief and armed robber. That the two cases merge will come as no surprise, but Jacobson manages to tantalize with each segment and pull off a stunning surprise ending. (July)
– Publishers Weekly
“Alan Jacobson is a fabulous writer who keeps your interest and keeps you guessing. He offers tremendous insight into history, procedural information and the psychi of many a person. This is a very good book you won’t want to put down and you will want to keep reading even when the story is finished!” – Sandra S.
I first read an Alan Jacobson book when Barnes and Noble offered 7th Victim as their Free Friday book. I sped through it, wanting more. I entered the contest at the end of the book and my name is now a character in Inmate 1577. I have now bought and read ALL his books and continue to want more. They are witty, gritty, suspenseful and fact based in their procedure. I was one of a few advance reader winners so I am half way through this book and am reading every free minute (yes, in the bathroom!). It brings out more of the true Karen Vail as well as new characters and the return of old favorites. This book is worth the buy!! I bought the signed hardcover even though I am already reading! Alan ranks #1 on my author list and will be yours too! – Sherry P.
Tualatin, Oregon – July 19, 2011: NY Times bestseller author Alan Jacobson returns with a new Karen Vail thriller, Inmate 1577, as an exclusive Norwood Press signed hardcover release. Critics are raving about this new Jacobson story, calling it his best book ever.
Praise for Inmate 1577
“Inmate 1577 is a mystery masterpiece. The author has written his best work to date, creating a classic psychopathic character that will be the inspiration for thriller writers in the years ahead,” says John Wills of NY Journal of Books.
“Inmate 1577 is another rippin’ good ‘Alan Jacobson read’! Jacobson researches his books like a good newspaper reporter, and then pushes the envelope into reality more thoroughly than the typical crime novel could ever allow.” – Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle
“In my 27 years working at USP Leavenworth as a Correctional Officer and Institution Historian, no other book has painted the story of what it’s like to survive behind those 40 foot walls better than Inmate 1577. Hats off to Alan Jacobson for his relentless research and desire to bring credibility to an already fascinating story!” – Kenneth M. LaMaster, Leavenworth Correctional Officer (ret), Author, and Institution Historian
About Inmate 1577
When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered, Karen Vail heads west to team up with Inspector Lance Burden and Detective Roxxann Dixon. (more…)
Just 2 more days until Inmate 1577 is released!
This is a limited, signed edition available in two states, a signed hardcover and a signed, numbered, slipcased edition. The slipcase matches the special edition Karen Vail Trilogy we produced last year that includes the first three Karen Vail novels and a special introduction written by Alan, all in a deluxe slipcase. INMATE 1577 launches Norwood Press’ new series of exclusive signed hardcover editions of new ebook releases by NY Times bestselling authors. This new series brings to the collector special limited edition signed hardcovers on books otherwise not available in print.
Press Release
May 17, 2011 – Tualatin, Oregon – Alan Jacobson is the national bestselling author of the critically acclaimed thrillers False Accusations, The Hunted, Crush, Velocity, and The 7th Victim, the latter two were named to Library Journal’s “top 5 Best Books of the Year” list.
Alan’s years of research and training with law enforcement have influenced him personally and professionally, and have helped shape the stories he tells and the diverse characters that populate his novels.
About Inmate 1577
Renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail returns in a thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail is sent back to the west coast to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and Detective Roxxann Dixon, who last worked with Vail in Velocity.
As Vail, Burden and Dixon follow the killer’s trail in and around San Francisco, the offender continues his rampage, leaving behind clues that ultimately lead them to the most unlikely of places, a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets (more…)