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THE JACK PATTERSON SERIES News!

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

Arkansas Review: Delta Themes in the Legal Thriller Fiction of Arkansas Native Webb Hubbell

To the ears of those who followed politics in the late 1990s, the name Webb Hubbell has a familiar ring. Many remember Hubbell as an associate of Bill and Hillary Clinton who forged a friendship with the Clintons in Little Rock when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, and who later rose to the position of the Associate Attorney General of the United States under the Clinton presidential administration. Others may remember the name Webb Hubbell from the subsequent Whitewater Scandal, in which Hubbell was caught up, leading ultimately to his conviction and an eighteen-month incarceration at a federal prison in Maryland. Still others might recall Hubbell as the author of the autobiographical expose of the Clinton circle titled Friends in High Places (1997), a conversational and controversial memoir of Hubbell’s interaction with the Clintons from early days when all three were lawyers in Little Rock during the early ’70s, to their roles in high political stakes while in Washington, DC, during the late ’90s.


Yet the Webb Hubbell of the 2000s is something quite other. Since 2014, Hubbell has emerged on the American literary landscape as an acclaimed novelist in the legal thriller genre. Hubbell is now the author of five bestsellers: When Men Betray (2014), Ginger Snaps (2015), A Game of Inches (2016), Eighteenth Green (2018), and East End (2019), all published by New York City-based Beaufort Books, an independent publisher. Several of Hubbell’s novels are set either wholly or partially in central Arkansas and the capital city of Little Rock, firmly rooting Hubbell’s claim to literary fame in fiction of the Mississippi Delta. All five Hubbell novels have received high marks from celebrities, politicians, and writers, including former US president Bill Clinton, Harry Thomason of Designing Women and Evening Shade fame, writer and actor Peter Coyote, and DC lobbyist Jack Abramoff. More icing on the cake: When Men Betray was rated a finalist in the 2014 Forward Review competition, Ginger Snaps captured the Gold Medal IPPY Award in 2016, and Eighteenth Green scored the same in the 2018 Forward Review Indies Book of the Year prize. The news has gotten around in Hubbell’s hometown of Little Rock, where the Central Arkansas Library System stocks a substantial collection of Hubbell’s fiction. His titles are always off the shelf and in the hands of readers. Hubbell, it might be said, appears to be on a bona fide literary roll.

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Delicious Reads 2020 – Author Talk with Webb Hubbell

Sunday, March 15th, 2020

An afternoon of lively conversation about books with twenty extraordinary American authors while enjoying delectable desserts and libations on Sunday, March 15, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the AC Marriott Hotel. Guests will have a unique opportunity to chat with a variety of writers about their work and all things literary in a relaxed, elegant setting.

Holiday Gift Guide 2019!

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

Holiday Gift Guide 2019!

The most wonderful time of the year is here once more! It’s around this time that we all begin rushing around town, shelling out too much money for gifts that will inevitably end up re-gifted. With all the decorating, shopping, and parties, the magic of the holidays gets lost behind sky-high price tags and busy schedules. This year, Beaufort wants to make your holidays a little more magical by recommending gifts for everyone on your list! Here you’ll find books that will satisfy even the most obscure tastes and interests. Not to mention, they’ll look stellar wrapped up under the tree or displayed on the shelf. Now order these finds online and get to sippin’ that eggnog by the fire!

For the Dedicated Churchgoer:

The Lord is My Strength by Eric Kampmann

In his introduction to The Lord Is My Strength, Eric Kampmann places the Psalms at the epicenter of the biblical narrative. Implicitly, the psalms weave all the way back to the creation story, forward to the advent of Jesus, and beyond to the end of times. And within this epic scope, the psalms tell the story of each one of us, our hopes, our dreams, our fears and conflicts in a way that ignites our imagination, providing a full and deep picture of who we are as we live day to day in our own time and place. The Lord Is My Strength was originally envisioned as a book of morning prayers posted on social media sites. But it quickly became more than that when Kampmann began posting a photograph and a short commentary along with the passage from the psalms. The result is a new book that will speak through words and pictures of the beauty, harmony and mystery that has been gifted to everyone who has the desire to see where they stand in God’s story.


For the Curious Middle-schooler:

The Adventures of Bubba Jones Series by Jeff Alt

The Adventures of Bubba Jones: Time Traveling Through the Great Smoky Mountains is the first book in the series.

Tommy “Bubba Jones” and his sister Jenny “Hug-a-Bug” learn more about the Great Smoky Mountain National Park than they ever thought they would when Papa Lewis lets them in on a family secret: The family has legendary time traveling skills! With these abilities, Bubba Jones and Hug-a-Bug travel back in time and meet the park’s founders, its earliest settlers, native Cherokee Indians, wild animals, extinct creatures, and what the park was like millions of years ago.

With this time traveling ability also comes a family mystery, but the only person who can help solve the mystery is a long lost relative who lives somewhere in the park.  Explore the Smokies with Bubba Jones and family in a whole new way.


For the Drama Lover:

The Woman in the Park by Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist

When Manhattanite Sarah Rock meets a mysterious and handsome stranger in the park, she is drawn to him. Sarah wants to get away from her daily routine, her cheating husband and his crazy mistress, her frequent sessions with her heartless therapist, and her moody children.

But nothing is as it seems. Her life begins to unravel when a woman from the park goes missing and Sarah becomes the prime suspect in the woman’s disappearance. Her lover is nowhere to be found, her husband is suspicious of her, and her therapist is talking to the police.

With no one to trust, Sarah must face her inner demons and uncover the truth to prove her innocence.

A thriller that questions what is real-with its shocking twists, secrets, and lies—The Woman in the Park will leave readers breathless.


For the Person Who Love Jane Austen:

The North of the Tension Line Series by J.F. Riordan

North of the Tension Line is the first book in the series

Fiona Campbell is a newcomer to tiny Ephraim, Wisconsin. Populated with artists and summer tourists, Ephraim has just enough going on to satisfy her city tastes. But she is fascinated and repelled by the furthest tip of Door County peninsula, Washington Island, utterly removed from the hubbub of modern life. Fiona’s visits there leave her refreshed in spirit, but convinced that only lunatics and hermits could survive a winter in its frigid isolation.

In a moment of weakness, Fiona is goaded into accepting a dare that she cannot survive the winter on the island in a decrepit, old house. Armed with some very fine single malt scotch and a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Fiona sets out to win the dare, and discovers that small town life is not nearly as dull as she had foreseen. Abandoning the things she has always thought important, she encounters the vicious politics of small town life, a ruthless neighbor, persistent animals, a haunted ferry captain, and the peculiar spiritual renewal of life “north of the tension line.”


For the Thrill Seeker:

The Jack Patterson Series by Webb Hubbell

When Men Betray is the first book in the series.

Why would Woody Cole, a peaceful, caring man, shoot a US Senator in cold blood on live television? That’s the mystery facing attorney Jack Patterson as he returns to Little Rock, Arkansas, a town he swore he would never step foot in again.

When Men Betray is the first book of fiction from author, lecturer, and political insider Webb Hubbell. A departure from his previous book, Friends in High Places, an account of his rise and fall in Little Rock, Hubbell crafts a deft narrative of mystery and political intrigue. Set in a fictionalized version of his home town of Little Rock, Arkansas, readers will be immersed into the steamy world behind the southern BBQ and antebellum facade—a seedy underbelly of secrets and betrayals. Clever readers may recognize the colorful personalities and locales of the Arkansas political scene.

Jack is supported by a motley but able crew; loyal assistant Maggie, college-aged daughter Beth, feisty lawyer Micki, and his bodyguard Clovis. Together, Jack and his rag-tag team are in a race against time to discover Woody’s hidden motive. All he has is a series of strange clues, hired thugs gunning for him, and the one man who knows everything isn’t talking. Alliances are tested, buried tensions surface, and painful memories are relived as he tries to clear the name of his old college friend. Jack Patterson will find that even the oldest friendships can be quickly destroyed when men betray.


For the Person Who Loves True Stories:

School Choice: A Legacy to Keep by Virginia Walden Ford

On a cold winter night in February of 1967, a large rock shattered a bedroom window in Virginia Walden Ford’s home in Little Rock, Arkansas, landing in her baby sister’s crib. Outside, members of the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on her family’s lawn. Faceless bigots were terrorizing Virginia, her parents, and her sisters–all because her father, Harry Fowler, dared to take a job as the assistant superintendent of personnel for the Little Rock School District. He was more than qualified, but he was black.

In her searing new memoir, legendary school choice advocate Virginia Walden Ford recounts the lessons she learned as a child in the segregated south. She drew on those experiences—and the legacies handed to her by her parents and ancestors—thirty years later, when she built an army of parents to fight for school choice in our nation’s capital. School Choice: A Legacy to Keep, tells the dramatic true story of how poor D.C. parents, with the support of unlikely allies, faced off against some of America’s most prominent politicians—and won a better future for children.


For the Professional or Entrepreneur:

Success Freak by Bruno Gralpois

Are you ready to get INSANELY MORE out of life? Success is acquired, not inherited. Take control of your destiny and join the “Success Freak 7-Day Challenge”: master 7 essential skills and transform your life in only one week. Combining helpful exercises and set-by-steps activities,Success Freak is a self-help book by French-American Entrepreneur Bruno Gralpois, that will show you how to unleash the amazing potential that, yes, already lies within you. You are about to become an unstoppable force of resolve and determination. Nothing short of the Success (Freak) you were always meant to be.


For the Skeptics and History Buffs:  

Occam’s Razor by T.R. Ryden

When ancient artifacts discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza shed new light on a DNA pattern identified by a world-renowned molecular biologist, venture capitalist, James Anderson, is thrust into an action-packed road of scientific exploration and discovery. An unlikely participant in the events that begin to unfold, Anderson and his team, pursued by those who don’t want this new information out, realize they have stumbled upon the greatest and most terrifying cover-up in the history of the human race.

Occam’s Razor is a chilling speculative fiction thriller which ties together several well-known, and some not so famous controversial theories concerning alien visitation, human evolution, ancient legends, and the cosmos. The novel explains how it could be very plausible to imagine that the powers that be may already know about an impending disaster and caught between all this are the novel’s unfortunate characters as they struggle to figure out what to do in the face of unstoppable catastrophe.

Happy Holidays! May all your shopping be done early!

-Captain Beaumerica

“THE EAST END” Reading and Signing

Monday, October 7th, 2019

Webb Hubbell presents The East End. More information to follow.

Book Signing – “The East End”

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Jack Patterson returns to Little Rock at the request of his boyhood friend Sam Pagano, but when Jack arrives, he’s abducted and taken to a remote swamp where he’s beaten and lynched by men set on revenge. Clovis Jones, his friend and bodyguard, finds Jack near death and gets him to a hospital.

As Jack recovers, he learns Sam’s college sweetheart, Jana Hall, is now a doctor who established and ran Arkansas’s health clinics for the poor including one in Little Rock’s East End. Jana’s efforts stepped on the toes of some powerful people, including someone who wants her clinics shut down, her medical practice ended, and for her to spend the rest of her life in prison. Meanwhile, someone has killed the men who tried to lynch Jack, and Jack is the prime suspect in the murders.

To make matters worse, Jack must defend Jana without the aid of his trusted assistant, Maggie, and his usual co-counsel, Micki Lawrence. Jack faces an unethical special prosecutor, a judge on the take, and the shadowy power broker bent on destroying Dr. Hall and her health clinics. Why Jana has become such a target, no one seems to know. Every time Jack thinks he has caught a break or sees a way to exonerate Dr. Hall, his adversaries or his client put a new obstacle in his path, including a second killer bent on settling an old score.

Jack’s courtroom tactics fail, his client wants to plead guilty to protect her patients, and in a last-ditch effort to overcome the long odds against his client he resorts to a complicated and dangerous strategy. The strategy will either save Jana’s life and reputation, or get Jack disbarred, his client put away for life, or worse—get Jack killed.


The East End is a powerful, authentic thriller set in a real place, with a story about the real health care needs of people who can’t afford it, and the real danger to good people when public corruption threatens the rule of law and respect for facts. It’s a great read and an important warning.”

Bill Clinton42nd President of the United States and co-author of “The President Is Missing”

THE EAST END News!

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

FEATURE: WEBB HUBBELL, AUTHOR OF THE EAST END, IS FEATURED ON THE BECKER GROUP C-SUITE REPORTS PODCAST

This episode features Webb Hubbell. Webb is the author of the new book “The East End (A Jack Patterson Thriller Book 5)”. He is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including the inhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.

Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.

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THE EAST END News!

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019

WKPT Radio: “New Books for July 2019

Radio station (WKPT) will be broadcasting an upcoming show entitled “New books for July 2019”.  They are planning a review of the latest release from Webb Hubbell entitled The East End.

Tune in on Tuesday, July 16th @ 10:04 AM. 4 copies will be given away as part of the mid-morning radio contest!

WKPT Radio Network (and ESPN) broadcasts in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina via AM 1400, AM 1490, AM 1590, FM 94.3, FM 97.7, and FM 98.1.

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THE EAST END News!

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

The Charlotte Observer: Summer books: Murder, mischief and West Mills”

Author Webb Hubbell‘s upcoming political thriller, The East End, was featured in The Charlotte Observer‘s Summer Book reading guide!

“Hubbell gives you warm peach pie with ice cream to drool over in the same novel where four men lay a trap for Jack when he arrives at the Little Rock airport, string him up in a tree in a swampy wood and leave him to die. Bam. Hubbell is off to a rollicking start in this one about a widowed doctor who runs health clinics for the poor in Little Rock’s East End neighborhood. Somewhere Dr. Jana Hall has stepped on some powerful toes and someone wants her clinics shut down. Jack to the rescue. But can he succeed without ruining the good doctor’s reputation? Will she be ‘grist for easy gossip’? Court room scenes to keep you up late, but as with any ‘Jack Patterson’ tale, don’t let your breath out too soon.”

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