In “What Never Happened,” Hall’s latest thriller, an obituary writer from Los Angeles returns to the island 20 years after her family had been brutally murdered there. See also: Sign up for our free Book Pages newsletter about bestsellers, authors and more
“I wanted to explore what paradise actually is.”
“As she’s taking us everywhere, she’s spilling the tea on what’s going on on the island,” the L.A.-based crime writer, who took the private tour twice, recalls. But it was years later, during a visit with her husband and daughter, that Hall says a private tour guide provided her with an eye-opening glimpse of the island.
Growing up in Los Angeles, Rachel Howzell Hall remembers taking a school field trip to Catalina Island.
