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Jim Christ

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Streator, IL, The United States

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Fiction, Suspense, Crime

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I have a bachelors’ degree in Literature and Writing from the University of Arizona, as well as two masters’ degrees. I taught writing, literature and history in Arizona secondary schools for twenty-five years and served as a school administrator for eleven more. Many of the characters and incidents in my novels are inspired by actual people and events I encountered during my career as an educator, and my stories are authentically set in my haunts near the Arizona border.
My latest novel, She’s a Lot Like You, just came out (March, 2023). It tells the story of mixed-race Enrique Tavish, who risks everything as he resists depraved enemies and his own lust to rescue teenage Rosa Martinez from prostitution, but she seizes control of her own fat I have a bachelors’ degree in Literature and Writing from the University of Arizona, as well as two masters’ degrees. I taught writing, literature and history in Arizona secondary schools for twenty-five years and served as a school administrator for eleven more. Many of the characters and incidents in my novels are inspired by actual people and events I encountered during my career as an educator, and my stories are authentically set in my haunts near the Arizona border.
My latest novel, She’s a Lot Like You, just came out (March, 2023). It tells the story of mixed-race Enrique Tavish, who risks everything as he resists depraved enemies and his own lust to rescue teenage Rosa Martinez from prostitution, but she seizes control of her own fate in a series of shocking reversals; their survival skills and Tavish’s honor are put to the ultimate test as they face the threats from Rosa’s cartel captors. Kirkus describes it as a “gritty drama . . . a captivating and intelligent tale. A terrifying story that unflinchingly explores the grim underworld of human trafficking.” Diane Donovan of Midwest Book Review has this to say: “Christ confronts readers with the cruelty and social injustice that are the inseparable realities of kidnapping and human trafficking; perhaps more basic, as his protagonist seeks redemption, Christ has his readers reckoning the costs for the pursuit of duty and a quiet mind. Moral and ethical dilemmas carry this novel to a thoughtful place that most crime/suspense dramas do not even approach. An engrossing story rendered with passion and truth.” https://www.jimchrist.net
Previously published work includes non-fiction from Prentice-Hall and Sterling. My first novel, The Day Hal Quit, published in 2015, is a crime drama set in Southern Arizona in the late 1960’s. The Arizona Daily Star called it “a fast ride through the desert and grass country of Southern Arizona,” and Kirkus reviewer Courtney McDermott praised it as reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy. My second novel, a “whodunit” entitled Ways to be Wicked, was published in 2018. Midwest Book Review called the story action-packed and thought-provoking. My third, Girl out of Darkness, earned this review from Kirkus: “Drawing deeply from a rich tradition of hard-boiled detective fiction, Christ’s novel is unsentimentally realistic as it bravely tours the dark corridors of the human soul … A gripping story told with verve and intelligence.”

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	Modern Cabinetry: European Design & Construction Techniques by Jim Christ (Goodreads Author), Laurel Ormitz (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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