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David Grace

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http://www.goodreads.com/DavidGrace

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upstate NY, The United States

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male

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http://www.davidgraceauthor.com

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Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy

influences

Jack Vance, Martin Cruz Smith

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April 2011

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David M. Alexander (writing as David Grace) Biography

David Grace is the pen name for David M. Alexander. David Alexander was born in Upstate New York in the mid-nineteen forties. His family moved to Northern California in the early nineteen sixties. He graduated from Stanford University in 1967 with a major in history and a minor in economics. He received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of California Law School, Boalt Hall, in June 1970, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of California in January 1971 and before the Supreme Court of the United States in November, 1977.

His first novel was "The Chocolate Spy," Coward, McCann & Geoghigan, 1978. His...more

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Started New Book

After spending a long time thinking about the next book (number 13) and working on the character backgrounds, the plot and the detailed outline, I have finally started writing.

I just finished Chapter Nine, about 14,000 words.

I looked up "cognitive dissonance" on Google a few minutes ago. They list a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- “The true test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two... read more »

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Published on March 30, 2012 11:50 • Tags: crime-novel, mystery-novel-structure, new-book, work-in-progress, writing-style

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Books by David Grace

Average rating: 3.24 · 29 ratings · 8 reviews · 19 distinct works

	A Death In Beverly Hills 3.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shooting Crows At Dawn 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Etched In Bone 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Doll's Eyes 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fever Dreams 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Stolen Angel 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Daniel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	True Faith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Traitor's Mistress 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Crime Stories Volume 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Shooting Crows At Dawn (Mystery & Thrillers)

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Description: Election day is two weeks away and Sheriff Jubel Dark's failure to solve a two-year-old rape and murder is likely to cost him his job. If that wasn't trouble enough, three escaped killers are racing west across Texas, heading for the Mexican border. On their way through Dark's county they murder a local family and steal their car. With these fugitives on the loose, Dark no longer has any time or energy to worry about the election. He's willing to trade his star, and even his life, if that's what it will take to bring these murderers to Texas Justice.

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David Grace wrote a new blog post: Started New Book Started New Book After spending a long time thinking about the next book (number 13) and working on the character backgrounds, the plot and the detailed outline, I... read more »
Mar 30, 2012 11:50am · like
David Grace added: A Death In Beverly Hills by David Grace (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Feb 18, 2012 01:11pm
David Grace gave to: Hard Rain (John Rain, #2) by Barry Eisler (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
The "Rain" books are always easy to read and hard to put down. Professional writing, interesting, engaging stories.
Sep 23, 2011 02:43pm · see review
David Grace gave to: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris	My rating:
Probably the best serial killer novel of all time. Great characters, terrific story, professionally written, good dialog, good prose, just a great, classic crime/thriller novel. Even the title is great. It kills me that the same author wrote the awful...more
Sep 23, 2011 12:01pm · see review
David Grace gave to: Passage at Arms by Glen Cook	My rating:
This is Run Silent, Run Deep of interstellar warfare. It is a terrific book. I actually would like to give it 4.5 or even 5 stars instead of four for two reasons (1) Chapters One and Two are reversed. It starts with Chapter Two and then goes to Chapt...more
Sep 23, 2011 11:56am · see review
David Grace gave to: Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons	My rating:
You have to take the tree Hyperion novels together as one BIG story. They challenge the reader. The plot is complicated and it takes a long time to really start to understand what is really going on but Hyperion and the other two novels in the trilog...more
Sep 23, 2011 11:47am · see review
David Grace gave to: Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert	My rating:
One of the greatest SF novels of all time. Engaging, exciting, emotional, unique, interesting, different, etc. etc. etc. Herbert wrote Dune while he was earning a living as a reporter for the Hearst Newspapers, specifically the SF Chronicle. He typed...more
Sep 23, 2011 11:42am · see review
David Grace gave to: The Demon Princes, Volume One: The Star King, The Killing Machine, The Palace of Love by Jack Vance	My rating:
An admission. Jack Vance and I are very good friends (he named a planet after in "The Face," Demon Prince Novel number 4). Still, I think he is one of the best SF writers of the last fifty years. And he has not written just one or two good books. Jac...more
Sep 23, 2011 11:36am · see review
David Grace gave to: With the Lightnings (Lt. Leary, #1) by David Drake	My rating:
My bias -- I know David Drake. Keeping that in mind, I think he is a terrific writer. His SF books are interesting, exciting, unique, fast paced -- what more can I say? His characters are not cardboard cut-outs. They have human dimensions and Drake w...more
Sep 23, 2011 11:31am · see review
David Grace gave to: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane	My rating:
Dennis Lehane is an extremely talented writer. His prose can be fantastic, a model for aspiring writers, BUT this book is somewhere between 25% and 35% too long, overwritten, whatever adjectives you want to use. At one point Lehane spends three pages...more
Sep 23, 2011 11:26am · see review