sentences:  He is also an author with eight novels published, all in the crime and thriller genre.Hall worked for BBC South West Television's regional news programme, Spotlight, and also broadcast on BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Cornwall.Hall has covered many high-profile stories, including the attempt to detonate a bomb in the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter, the grounding of the container ship MSC "Napoli" in east Devon, and the flooding of the Cornish village of Boscastle.