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Joseph Finder

@JoeFinder

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Dad, husband, NYT bestselling thriller writer, Red Sox fan, Bostonian, Land Rover Defender driver, tomato farmer

Boston, MA
Joined February 2009
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@JoeFinder
Joseph Finder
2 months
Excited to show you all the cover of THE OLIGARCH'S DAUGHTER, coming in January 2025 from @harperbooks !
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4 years
I just finished an absolutely terrific novel that’ll be published in May by Celadon Books.  It’s called THE PLOT, by Jean Hanff Korelitz.  (She’s the super-talented writer whose novel YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN was adapted by David Kelley for TV as “The Undoing.”)
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6 years
Wishing you a very happy birthday @StephenKing .... hope it was an awesome day.
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1 year
Why — and how — is @StephenKing so frigging good? I loved this book. *Loved* it.
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3 years
I am really excited about this event -- talking with the brilliant @JeanHanffKoreli about her new novel, which may be my favorite book of the last several years, THE PLOT.
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6 years
Happy Birthday to my good friend @RL_Stine
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4 years
THE PLOT is about a failed novelist who steals the perfect plot from a former student and becomes massively successful, rich and famous . . .and then an email comes in saying “You are a thief” . . . Somebody out there knows what he did.
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@JoeFinder
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4 years
You rarely get prose this good, and character development this rich, in a novel of suspense.  But this one’s a winner. It’s the sort of book you hand to a spouse or a friend and say, “Just read this.” Very much in the Gone Girl/Patricia Highsmith vein… I loved it.
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@JoeFinder
Joseph Finder
6 years
I am thrilled and grateful to announce that JUDGMENT just hit the @nytimes best sellers list after one week on sale! Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered or bought their copy during the all-important first week. @DuttonBooks
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@JoeFinder
Joseph Finder
6 years
The word is out! I’m excited to show you the cover of my next book, a Nick Heller novel called HOUSE ON FIRE. Find out more, and pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, & your favorite bookseller. Amazon: Barnes & Noble:
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5 years
HOUSE ON FIRE is my sixteenth novel, but it never gets old when you get the first actual hardcover, with finished jacket and everything. Always exciting.
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1 year
I'm Deal of the Day on Publishers Marketplace!
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@JoeFinder
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6 years
My next novel, JUDGMENT, is coming January 29, 2019. You can find pre-order information and more details here:
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2 years
Just read ALL THAT IS MINE I CARRY WITH ME by @williamlanday , coming from @penguinrandom next March — suspenseful, riveting, unforgettable. Unlike any other crime novel I've read, including Bill's great DEFENDING JACOB. Put it on your calendar now.
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5 years
Thrilled to announce that HOUSE ON FIRE just hit the always-tough USA Today bestseller list!
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@JoeFinder
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2 years
I was lucky enough to read an early copy of Dennis Lehane's next novel, SMALL MERCIES, over the weekend. Funny, clever, scary and deeply moving — really well done. It's out in April 2023.
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6 years
I am really delighted to announce that JUDGMENT just got a starred review from Booklist: "Another stunner from a master."
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5 years
I am verklempt. Just got a starred review from Booklist for HOUSE ON FIRE! “Finder is a master of the narrow escape…Finder’s characterization of Heller gets more layered with every installment. Excruciating suspense.”
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@JoeFinder
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7 years
THE SWITCH has arrived! Pick up your copy today: #newrelease @DuttonBooks
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5 years
A sign on my desk that a reader made for me. Isn't that great?
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1 year
The Publishers Marketplace notice . . . happy to be publishing my next two books with @harperbooks .
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6 years
The terrifying boiler in the building I live in in Boston, which I have to tend to every weekend. Every single time I bleed the valves I think of the aging & scary boiler in the big old hotel, The Overlook, in @StephenKing ‘s The Shining (the book, not the film). Remember that?
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5 years
Just got galleys of HOUSE ON FIRE -- doesn't it look great?
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6 years
I am absolutely thrilled to pass along the first blurb I've gotten on JUDGMENT, from none other than @davidbaldacci ! Check out the gif my publisher made for it -- isn't it great? Judgment releases 1.29.19: @DuttonBooks
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@JoeFinder
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6 years
Look at the cool concentric-circle effect on the spines of a stack of JUDGMENTs!
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@JoeFinder
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10 years
RIP James Garner. All the answering machine messages from the first season of "Rockford Files" - http://t.co/j6yMeRVW18
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7 years
Hey, some great news. @nbc just bought SUSPICION for a TV series! and it's a great creative team and script.
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@JoeFinder
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8 years
Hey, look what just came in -- the galleys for THE SWITCH. I'm happy with how they came out.
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@JoeFinder
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8 years
I'm sick of this election. So I thought I'd post something totally NON election-related. My new favorite notebook, for taking research notes
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@JoeFinder
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2 years
Big news (at least, for all of us writers): I've acquired a mechanical keyboard. Feels like typing on an old IBM Selectric, and I make far fewer typos. Whatever helps me finish the book faster . . .
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6 years
Off to England! Leaving tonight for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, UK. One of my very favorite crime fiction conferences anywhere. Hope I'll see some of you there. @TheakstonsCrime
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6 years
From the great @StephenKing ...
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4 years
A sign made for me by a reader…
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8 years
Not news, but nice seeing this in the paper yesterday. The NYT hardcover fiction best sellers list.
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11 years
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: make a gun-related error in a book and you will hear about it for the rest of your career.
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10 years
Only @RL_Stine could say, "I love killing teenagers" and sound like an American treasure. http://t.co/7uU0Up5W69
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8 years
Doesn't count til you see it in writing (thanks @Hyperbolyst !). Thanks to all who've bought a copy of GUILTY MINDS.
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7 years
THE SWITCH was chosen as one of the 10 BEST THRILLERS AND MYSTERIES OF 2017 by The @washingtonpost ! .
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@JoeFinder
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5 years
Exciting news... House on Fire was named as one of the best books of the month on @amazon ! House on Fire releases in just a few weeks. Coming 1.21.20. Pre-order available now:
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5 years
The finished hardcover copies of House on Fire are here and I can’t wait for you all to see them on shelves on the 21st!
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7 years
Some very funny librarians…
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6 years
I'm thrilled to be included on the Booklist list of the top 10 crime novels of 2018 along with some terrific writers -- Sue Grafton, Laura Lippman, Don Winslow, Steve Hamilton, Gregg Hurwitz, Walter Mosley, Clare Macintosh, Ruth Ware, and A. J. Finn.
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2 years
My dog's worst nightmare (courtesy of my reader Laurie Schmid . . .)
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9 years
Look what I just got! A box of great-looking paperback copies of THE FIXER, available May 3.
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5 years
Happy Birthday to Ian Fleming (1908), creator of James Bond. What is your favorite Bond movie or book?
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7 years
A full-page ad in @TIME Magazine!
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2 years
My 70-year-old lilac bush.
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10 years
This isn't Mia, but could be her cousin. http://t.co/BFWEMst7pV
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6 years
Spotted at the Jacksonville, FL airport @DuttonBooks
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8 years
Just got the final jacket for The Switch, and I love it. Check out the spine...clever, no? Pre-Order it here:
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6 years
From the JUDGMENT book launch last night at @booksmithtweets --me in conversation with my friend @williamlanday , author of the bestselling DEFENDING JACOB. We had a blast. (Thanks to @HankPRyan for the pic!)
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10 years
One inarguable advantage of print newspapers: no comments sections.
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8 years
Look at this -- a single, beautiful hydrangea -- in Boston, in December! (Passed this on Commonwealth Avenue this morning on way to work.)
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6 years
Got a great email from @LeeChildReacher about my new novel,out Jan. 29- "Loved Judgment-lean, mean, not a wasted word or scene. But still full of your trademark charm. Felt like a triple distillation of essential Finder-ism. Congrats. I hope you’re happy with it, you should be.”
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1 year
This year's crazy weather patterns meant I didn't get many Nikko Blue hydrangeas this year, but the ones I got are BLUE.
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9 years
Dude, everybody's on MySpace these days.
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9 years
My Palm Pilot has been losing emails. Better to reach me at my AltaVista account or on Friendster.
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9 years
Framing this. Thank you.
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9 years
A great film noir line in the new Joseph Finder novel, THE FIXER: "She had a body harder than Chinese arithmetic."
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5 years
Happy 2020!
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2 years
Tonight at 6:00 p.m. — excited to talk to @donwinslow at this event with @booksmithtweets !
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11 years
Okay, this is funny: the white noise of a coffee shop at the privacy of your own desk: http://t.co/dffWa4Jw4t
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8 years
Buying extra copies of today's @nytimesbooks . . .
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6 years
My new novel, JUDGMENT, is available now:
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3 years
The morning sky on Cape Cod today.
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8 years
Hey, my new book, THE SWITCH, has a cover! Check it out. Coming June 13, 2017:
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5 years
The New York Post lists the best books of the week, and HOUSE ON FIRE is among them!
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10 years
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1 year
No, #Thrillerfest is not filled exclusively with fabulous women, but I'm lucky (and proud) to call them friends. @LisaGardnerBks @HankPRyan @KarenDionne @LivConstantine2
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6 years
I know I'm not supposed to talk about anything other than JUDGMENT (publishing Jan. 29!), but I just got a new paperback edition of one of my favorites, KILLER INSTINCT. Out soon!
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5 years
Just one more day until HOUSE ON FIRE hits shelves and e-readers. I can’t wait for you all to read it! Out tomorrow, 1.21.20:
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8 years
Congratulations to @HarlanCoben for HOME debuting at #1 on the @nytimes bestseller list!
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5 years
I should be writing but I can't put down @robertcrais 's A DANGEROUS MAN. I think Crais is a hell of a writer.
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2 years
Last night's sky.
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8 years
Just opened the mail and found an advance copy of the UK paperback edition of GUILTY MINDS. A stylish cover, I think -- you?
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8 years
I get a lot of compliments on my Macbook Air skin. (Everyone thinks it's a real license plate -- it's just a photo.)
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9 years
If you tell me "I always wanted to write," but you're not actually writing, I don't believe you.
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6 years
Well, as of today, THE SWITCH is now available in paperback: @DuttonBooks
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5 years
I have the best readers. At the end of each year I get Christmas/Chanukah/holiday cards from lots of my readers. To those who sent a card, thank you.
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Met #LiamHemsworth on the elevator. Me: "You must be Adam." He: "I'm Liam." Me: "I know, I wrote PARANOIA." He: "Wow, well, that's awkward."
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5 years
From my family to yours, wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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6 years
In honor of my upcoming release, JUDGMENT, my first book w/a woman protagonist since HIGH CRIMES, I’m hosting a monthly newsletter giveaway w/ thrillers written by women. This month: THE WIFE by @alafairburke & a signed copy of HIGH CRIMES. Sign up here:
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5 years
Today @StephenKing 's THE INSTITUTE comes out, which I can't wait to read.
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8 years
Mia is touched and delighted to learn that it's #NationalDogDay .
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8 years
Big news! My new book THE SWITCH is coming out next June. Keep an eye out for more information soon!
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10 years
It's like they planned the weather just for this. National Readathon Day - January 24, 2015 http://t.co/PQLcJnqRHJ
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8 years
I was going through some old stuff and look what I dug up – the camera I had when I was a kid! Anyone remember these?
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5 years
I'm in the book! Excited about the publication this week of CRIME FICTION: A READER'S GUIDE by @BarryForshaw3 . (I'm in it with a lot of other writers.) Here's what the Times of London said about it: "...this labour of literary love belongs on every crime fan’s bookshelf."
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4 years
My dad died on Veteran’s day, so the day has extra meaning for my family. Sharing my post from a few years ago today:
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Throwback Thursday: I was a camera bug as a kid, and this was mine -- a Polaroid "Swinger." It cost $19.95. Took lousy black-and-white pictures, but it was really fun to use.
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9 years
Good morning from Arizona, where you can go to bed on Mountain Time and wake up on Pacific Time. #TFOB
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5 years
In case you missed the news, the House on Fire book tour schedule was announced and starts in just a few weeks. Hope to see you along the way!
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6 years
A book recommendation for those of you who read nonfiction and are interested in spy stories -- I just read THE BILLION DOLLAR SPY by @thedeadhandbook , and I thought it was one of the best true-life espionage tales I've read.
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9 years
Asking an author to stop using language that offends you is like asking a restaurant to stop cooking food you don't like.
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6 years
. @davidbaldacci says JUDGMENT is "An exquisite game of cat and mouse. Finder is truly in his groove here. JUDGMENT rocks." Coming 1/29/19: @DuttonBooks
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7 years
Rereading the brilliant STEPFORD WIVES by the great Ira Levin and remembering what a genius he was.
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11 years
Happy birthday to a national treasure. Harper Lee agrees to ebook version of To Kill a Mockingbird http://t.co/l2JHXhMxH3
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5 years
Wishing you all a very happy holiday season!
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