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Jake Doherty

Goodreads Author

Born

Canada

Website

http://jakedoherty.blogspot.ca/

Genre

Mystery

Influences

Barbara Fradkin, Michael Connally, PDJames.

Member Since

December 2011

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Bearwalker Alibi is Jake’s second novel, written after meticulous research in both the Dresden area of Germany and Northern Ontario, particularly Manitoulin Island, Sudbury and North Bay.
His attention to psychological roots of his main characters reflects 40 years in journalism as a reporter, editor and finally publisher of the The Hamilton Spectator. He received a Masters Degree (Journalism) from Columbia University in New York in 1960. He also has a business degree from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.
More recently, he was co-founder, editor and contributor of the Sun Media’s Summer Mystery Series, followed by an anthology acclaimed by the Globe and Mail’s mystery critic as “…perfect”.
Jake came to crime writing like a grea ...more

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Jake Doherty's Blog

How I started my novel!

So, who’s on first, or more literally what’s on first?
Not baseball silly .just the first page of a novel, the author’s critical decision: Begin with a gripping plot point? Or gently introduce all the characters with a few warts and wrinkles.
Choices must be made but they can take time to sort out. I was at a literary conference in San Miquel de Allende in Mexico 2009 when the great America Read more of this blog post »

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	The Rankin Files 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002 — 3 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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	Marketing Has No Off Switch by Hunter Leonard, Michael Lindell (illustrator), Jake Doherty (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 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