John Searles
John Searles is an American writer and book critic. He is the author of three novels: Boy Still Missing, Strange But True and Help For The Haunted . His essays have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and he contributes frequently to morni
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John Searles is an American writer and book critic. He is the author of three novels: Boy Still Missing, Strange But True and Help For The Haunted . His essays have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and he contributes frequently to morning television shows as a book critic.
Upon the 2001 publication of Searles’ first novel, Boy Still Missing, Time named him a “Person to Watch” and the New York Daily News named him a “New Yorker to Watch.” His second novel, Strange But True, was named the best novel of 2004 by Salon.com. Searles’ novel Help for the Haunted, published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in September 2013, won the American Library Association Alex Award, was named as an Amazon Top 10 Mystery and Suspense Novel of 2013, a Boston Globe Top 10 Crime Novel of 2013
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