{"id":329,"date":"2018-12-31T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:48:24","slug":"reavis-wortham-110115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Reavis Wortham 110115"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"u45827\">\n<div id=\"u45828-19\">\n<p>Award-winning author <span>Reavis Z. Wortham<\/span> was born in Paris, Texas, but lives in Dallas. He graduated with a B.S in industry and technology from East Texas State University (now Texas A&#038;M, Commerce). Upon graduation, he began a teaching career in Garland. Wortham received a master\u2019s in education from ETSU and after ten years in the classroom, took the job as communications specialist for the Garland ISD, retiring from that department as director of communications in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span>Dark Places,<\/span> fifth in Wortham\u2019s Red River Mysteries (Poisoned Pen Press) came out in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Wortham is a member of Mystery Writers of America and the Writers&#8217; League of Texas.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reaviszwortham.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.reaviszwortham.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"u45829-25\">\n<p><span>Praise for Reavis Z. Wortham&#8217;s work<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWortham nails the time period, the hardscrabble town, and the people, for whom family loyalties are paramount.\u201d \u2014<span id=\"u45829-5\">Publishers Weekly<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReavis Z. Wortham is the real thing: a literary voice that\u2019s gut-bucket Americana delivered with a warm and knowing Texas twang.\u201d \u2014CJ Box, <span id=\"u45829-9\">New York Times<\/span> bestselling author of <span id=\"u45829-11\">Endangered<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReplete with period details and a strong sense of place, this winning fifth series entry (after <span id=\"u45829-15\">Vengeance Is Mine<\/span>) is as much a coming-of-age story as crime fiction. This series is comparable to Rick Riordan\u2019s Tres Navarre or Joe Lansdale\u2019s Hap Collins and Leonard Pine books.\u00a0 \u2014<span id=\"u45829-17\">Library Journal<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn accomplished first novel about life and murder in a small Texas town. Not just scary but funny too, as Wortham nails time and place in a sure-handed, captivating way. There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff in this unpretentious gem.\u201d \u2014<span id=\"u45829-21\">Kirkus Reviews<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning author Reavis Z. Wortham was born in Paris, Texas, but lives in Dallas. He graduated with a B.S in industry and technology from East Texas State University (now Texas A&#038;M, Commerce). Upon graduation, he began a teaching career in Garland. Wortham received a master\u2019s in education from ETSU and after ten years in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}