New Zealand Listener

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Massachusetts author Peter Swanson has a bibliography packed with fiendish twists, strong characters and clear nods to past crime greats such as Patricia Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock. In his latest novel, RULES FOR PERFECT MURDERS (Faber & Faber, $

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Chicago Tribune

4 min de lectura

"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

The Threepenny Review

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The Witch Elm by Tana French. Viking/Penguin, 2018, $28.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. AT THE gates of the Underworld, wrote Virgil, rises an elm “of vast extent,” spreading its “branches and aged arms, around which false dreams cling and attach themselves

The Atlantic

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Over the last decade, female writers have come to dominate crime fiction, a genre traditionally associated with men. But their appeal goes beyond the byline.

The Millions

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I love stories told by the supposedly innocent bystander; the less charismatic best friend; the hapless fan or scholar whose own life recedes in the shadow of their subject of adoration. The post Observers, Bystanders, and Hangers On: Ten Novels with

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Writing Magazine

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Write to: Letters to the editor, Writing Magazine, Warners Group Publications plc, 5th Floor, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 5JD; email: letters@writersnews.co.uk. (Include your name and address when emailing letters. Ensure all letters, a maximum of 250

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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This is the third novel from Sydneysider Tania Blanchard inspired by her German grandmother’s tales, and we start in Australia in 2019 with a letter from Berlin. It’s about a deceased estate and its recipient is the biological daughter of the letter

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Chicago Tribune

4 min de lectura

"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

The Christian Science Monitor

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This clever work of meta-fiction is told by a writer named Anthony Horowitz, who has been asked by a former detective to look into a most unusual murder.

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

The Atlantic

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Many thrillers trace a strange or catastrophic event back to its surprising source. But what catalysts lead to those stories being written in the first place? Walter Mosley’s mystery-writing career was set off by a single simile from an older giant o

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

PC Gamer

1 min de lectura

There are lots of things I want to do in a Sherlock Holmes game. I want to recline indolently in an opioid haze; to steeple my fingers and examine shirt cuffs. What I never want, however, is to stop being Holmes and instead control a reeking urchin t

TIME

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“WHY IS IT THAT WE HAVE SUCH A NEED FOR murder mystery,” asks Susan Ryeland, the narrator of British author Anthony Horowitz’s new novel, Magpie Murders, “and what is it that attracts us—the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of blood

Writing Magazine

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Fashion plays a big part in writing, as it does in so many walks of life. I mean literary fashion, by the way – if writing success depended on having elegant dress sense, I’d have abandoned hope long ago. The harsh reality is that if the type of stor

The Millions

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I couldn’t help but feel that the narrator was wearing brass knuckles spelling out “postmodern” and trying, repeatedly, to punch me in the face. The post Where Randomness and Madness Reign appeared first on The Millions.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Our fascination with crime and mystery – most recently seen with the new TV adaptation of J.K. Rowling's 'Cormoran Strike' novels – reflects our cultural anxieties and desires, say experts.

Literary Hub

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I was, as usual, in my little writing studio at Reimersholme, one of the beautiful small islands that make up Stockholm’s inner city, when my private phone rang. A number I did not recognize. I did not answer. I never do when the caller is unknown be

The Paris Review

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Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Re

BBC History Magazine

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“Arthur Conan Doyle hadn’t practised for ten years due to the suc- cess of his Sherlock Holmes books, but was so keen to get out to the Boer War that he signed up with a field hospital as a surgeon. The war was also an excuse for him to leave his per

Writing Magazine

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The Book Folks has operated as an independent publisher of crime, mystery and thriller fiction since 2013. ‘We mostly publish British crime fiction,’ said publisher Erik Empson. ‘We especially like murder mystery series with a good sense of place, me

The Atlantic

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When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime.

The Paris Review

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I’ve been tempted to write more directly about my life, but the way I apprehended this book was as a work of imagination.

Fleurieu Living Magazine

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by Mark Laurie. by Hannah Kent Published by Picador ISBN 9781743534908 $32.99 The award-winning author of Burial Rites has transferred her imaginative power and luminous writing to Ireland in the 1820s, delivering a story located in the liminal world

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She is an Aucklander who has had international success with her paranormal romances, including the Psy-Changeling series. This is her first crime novel. I wanted to write a murder mystery because… “I was inspired by the West Coast and its stark, stun

Literary Hub

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There’s something reassuring about reading a story in which a heroic detective saves the day. Maybe it’s through tracking down a killer; maybe it’s finding a missing person. There’s that sense of closure, that sense that the protagonist has done the

TIME

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TWO MYSTERIES ARE AT THE HEART of Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four: the 14-year-old cold case of a young girl’s murder and the recent disappearance of protagonist Yoshinobu Mikami’s teenage daughter. Yet most of the suspense in this thriller has to do with