Sentences with phrase «many crime novelists»

Crime novelist Don Winslow — who adamantly discourages people from using any type of drug — has spent much of his career studying Mexican drug cartels.

Recently, three outstanding crime novelists have turned directly to the church for inspiration, presenting amateur detectives who are, in vocation as well as in spirit, priests.

Dreda Say Mitchell is an award - winning crime novelist.

Bunch of good stuff in the Riverdale Press this week, including this story about 50th Precinct cop Matthew Delaney who moonlights as a crime novelist and this story about the complicated battle for control of the 15 - building, 234 - unit Sholem Aleichem housing complex in Van Cortlandt Village.

When it came to offing her characters, iconic crime novelist Christie preferred poison.

Her book is a lively, eclectic Platonic discussion between a publisher, a crime novelist, a scientist, a lawyer, an environmental activist and a banker.

Simon Pegg stars as a children's author turned crime novelist whose research makes him a paranoid mess in A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

Based on the character created by legendary crime novelist Elmore Leonard, and raising the stakes of the electrifying debut season, Raylan faces his most daunting adversaries yet.

Meanwhile, the film is based on the first Mickey Haller novel by ace crime novelist Michael Connelly, who literally reinvented the L.A. noir novel with his realistic procedural series starring iconoclastic police detective Harry Bosch and now his Lincoln Lawyer series featuring attorney - at - law Michael «Mick» Haller.

The story (adapted by Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse, Rafe Newhouse) is based on «The Hunter» from acclaimed crime novelist Donald Westlake (as Richard Stark).

Based on the works of crime novelist Elmore Leonard and developed for television by showrunner Graham Yost, the FX drama series Justified is wrapping up its fifth season and looking ahead to its sixth and final season.

Lee, whose most recent credit includes the screenplay for A Beautiful Lie about crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, recently attended the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive and spoke with us about her creative origins, inspiration culled from the Hong Kong New Wave, and how she hopes to balance the scales when it comes to women on screen.

The film which was written by master crime novelist James Ellroy will star Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Sigourney Weaver, and Robin Wright.

Director David Ayer and crime novelist James Ellroy have cooked up a parable of the dangers of corruption that offers up exactly what you would expect from the writer of «Training Day» and «L.A. Confidential.»

His latest effort reunites him with actors Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster for this gritty police drama co-written by popular crime novelist James Elroy.

For Olivia Dejazet (Marina Foïs), a famous crime novelist teaching writing to a group of small - town teens in Laurent Cantet's The Workshop, that student is Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), an angry young man with an unhealthy interest in stories of mass murder.

The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.

Directed by Colin Trevorrow and written by the crime novelist and comic - book writer Gregg Hurwitz, the movie follows Susan Carpenter (Watts), a small - town waitress and single mother who endures a bizarre crucible of suffering set in motion by her elder son, an 11 - year - old prodigy named Henry (Jaeden Lieberher).

Of the reviews I've seen, only Michael Wilmington's at moviecitynews.com makes any connection to noir with this film, which is odd, considering Wong's co-writer is the crime novelist Lawrence Block.

In Dark Crimes, the comedian dons a Polish accent and the scraggly beard of a man obsessed to play Tadek, a homicide detective who goes a little too deep while investigating a murder that eerily resembles a scene in the latest book from crime novelist Kozlow (Marton Csokas), who sure looks like a sadistic killer.

Crime novelist Olivia (Marina Foïs) from Paris goes to the Mediterranean countryside to lead a writing workshop for high schoolers.

The script, co-written by Wong with American crime novelist Lawrence Block, is more a suggestion of stories than actual drama, and it almost unravels in the tinny, emotionally tone deaf (and fortunately brief) tale of a brassy baby - faced gambler, that Portman clomps through with little conviction.

Ellison Oswalt is a well renown true crime novelist who made it big with his book, «Kentucky Blood.»

In 2001, # 1 New York Times bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell was pulled into a real - life investigation of her own — the long - unsolved and deeply unsettling «Jack the Ripper» murd... Read More >

Such is the case with two new Ripper - themed books by celebrated historical crime novelists Stephen Hunter (Hot Springs) and Alex Grecian (The Yard).

Now the «compulsively readable» (Publishers Weekly) John Connolly confirms his position as one of our leading crime novelists with a story of superb menace and style.

Calista Langley's private introduction agency for lonely socialites arouses the suspicions of reclusive crime novelist Trent Hastings when he discovers his sister is using the service.

Brookmyre, who is a popular crime novelist in Scotland with 18 previous novels and multiple awards to show for it, brings his longtime investigative reporter Jack Parlabane into the mix when Peter's sister, Lucy, implores him to find the truth behind Peter's death.

The crime novelist made international headlines when she disappeared for 11 days after her husband admitted to an affair.

So too the crime novelist must create and endow his or her characters with out - sized passions, hopes and dreams.

Crime novelist Laura Lippman has a good anecdote — a hilarious Mad Libs - style game in which she re-writes Franzen's Time cover story to feature herself, instead.

He scouted gritty urban locations that would capture that moody darkness within Rory Flynn, crime novelist.

For both a therapist and a crime novelist, it's the mystery of character itself that intrigues, puzzles and continually surprises.

Before this book, Atkinson was known mostly as a crime novelist, but this is an absolutely brilliant work of literature.

Like the therapist, the crime novelist swims in an ocean of envy, greed, regret and desire.

Denise Hamilton is an American crime novelist, journalist and editor of the Edgar - award winning anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics.

Although Easy Rawlins is a reluctant sleuth, agreeing to search for a white woman only after being fired from his job as a machinist, he would go on to become one of the genre's legends, guaranteeing his author's reputation as the most important black crime novelist since Chester Himes.

Just in time for summer and that all - important decision on vacation reading come new offerings from five well - established crime novelists.

Crime novelist Elmore Leonard once said writers should «try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.»

When the police prove to be useless, she enlists the help of one of her client's brothers, the reclusive crime novelist Trent Hastings, as a last - ditch effort.

As an avid mystery reader, you undoubtedly know there are countless wonderful women crime novelists, most of whom have equal male - female audiences.

Many crime novelists are known best by their pseudonyms — Bruce Alexander, Ellis Peters, Edward Marston, Ross Macdonald and Ellery Queen, to name just a few.

We talked with the best - selling crime novelist about what it's like to be a millionaire, her theories on Jack the Ripper and Princess Diana, and writing your own role models as a woman.

If this were his first novel, we'd anoint him the next great crime novelist of the new century.

Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, 58, is author of 32 books, including her latest, «Flesh and Blood» (William Morrow).

Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has reiterated to Sky News her claim to know the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

Acclaimed crime novelist Peter May is famous for a trilogy of novels set on the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides, but in his latest outing, Coffin Road, he has moved his sights south, to the harder, rockier terrain of the Isle of Harris.

Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell opened up about her sexuality in a HuffPost Live appearance this week.

Best - selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell is writing an original drama pilot for CBS through ABC Studios.

Another must read Hellblazer arc was created by celebrated crime novelist, Ian Rankin, for Vertigo's crime imprint called Dark Entries in 2009.