Sentences with phrase «crime fiction novel»

I have done my share of deep and heavy reading this summer, so it was a great pleasure to read a crime fiction novel by an author new to me.

I always love finding out what an author's research process is, so when I learned that writer Ingrid Thoft actually attended and graduated from the University of Washington private investigator program, I simply had to see how that helped her pen her debut crime fiction novel, Loyalty.

Writing a crime fiction novel — or any novel — is no easy feat, and even successful published authors work to hone their craft and improve their skills.

Mark your calendars: The follow - up to J.K. Rowling's crime fiction novel, The Cuckoo's Calling (published under pseudonym Robert Galbraith), is coming from Little, Brown on June 24.

Britain's Crime Writers» Association is gearing up for another round of the Debut Dagger competition, its annual search for the best unpublished English - language crime fiction novel.

Instead they prefer men of mystery, with 19 % picking thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read, so any men palming through one of Benjamin Black's crime fiction novels (real name John Banville, he uses Black as a pseudonym - it just adds to his mystery!)

In a moment, I'll share the results of the freebee I did for one of my crime fiction novels: Natalie's Revenge.

He has since published crime fiction novels under his own name.

After the Simpson trial, she resigned as a prosecutor, wrote a book about the case, and penned a few crime fiction novels as well.

Laura is an avid reader of crime fiction novels.

About Blog The author reads crime fiction novels and reviews about them.

Not exact matches

IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction, «The Guilty Vicarage,» W.H. Auden argued that the appeal of crime novels lies in their «dialectic of innocence and guilt.»

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jon Breen makes the bold claim that Christian crime fiction has come of age in the novels of J. Mark Bertrand.

On holiday I usually alternate between fiction - light thrillers by Dan Brown or Robert Goddard or crime novels along with some nonfi ction.

Henning Mankell's crime novels featuring the Swedish detective Kurt Wallander were extremely significant because it got me hooked on fiction again!

I also enjoy a good crime mystery, as well as an obtimistic science fiction novel.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

by Walter Chaw It's probably not at all surprising that lock - step director Gary Fleder's Don't Say a Word, based on a by - the - numbers novel by fiction hack Andrew Klavan (True Crime), has less original material than Michael Jackson.

This fabulous contest closes on Feb. 2, so crime fiction writers from anywhere in the world who haven't had a novel published still have a few weeks to submit the first 3,000 words of their manuscripts.

His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work (currently 99 cents on Amazon).

She also represents a range of women's fiction, from literary to upmarket commercial, to romance, as well as crime fiction (mysteries, thrillers), and the occasional literary or commercial novel not aimed at a female market.

Many readers will come to this novel wanting Price to walk a fine line, hoping to find either a masterful work of crime fiction that transcends the genre or a finely crafted novel shot through with a thrilling dose of crime drama.

Fans of «CSI» or forensic - centric crime novels might not realize that the person who started the craze for forensic fiction is still one of today's most popular authors: Patricia Cornwell, the creator of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

After A Year in Provence, Mayle wrote a number of other books, both nonfiction and fiction, including French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork and Corkscrew (2001), Provence A-Z (2006), and a series of crime novels.

Completely devoid of supernatural story line (which I realize is not a requirement for a King novel, but it certainly does make it amazing), King's approach to crime fiction is more about a deranged mass murderer than any kind of horror plot.

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Last week my debut novel ranked as high as # 11 on Amazon's Best Selling Fiction in the Thriller / Crime category.

Imagine you're the best - selling author of a highly regarded crime fiction series published by one of the world's largest publishers, and you notice that most of the sales of your novels are as e-books.

For instance, if you wrote a crime novel set in the 1700s, you would want your website to appear high on the first page of Google search results when readers search for «crime novels,» «historical fiction crime» or «historical fiction 1700s,» and similar terms.

Louise writes: Back in the early Noughties before I started publishing crime thrillers with Mark, I had four contemporary women's fiction novels published by Transworld / Black Swan (chicklit, I suppose, although that has fluffy connotations, and I don't consider them at all fluffy).

Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency novels are routinely classified as mysteries, yet their strength lies not in the conventions of crime fiction, but rather in their astute depiction of human nature at its best and worst.

Widely known and widely praised for his best - selling Easy Rawlins series of crime novels, Mosley restlessly delved into speculative fiction with Blue Light (1998), wrote two books featuring his urban philosopher, Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always...

Comic caper novels, psychological thrillers, and history - mystery blends dominate the best crime fiction reviewed in Booklist from May 1, 2015, through April 15, 2016.

That's because the tenth entry in our top 10, Bill Beverly's Dodgers, forms a kind of bridge, it being the only title to appear on both the year's top 10 crime novels and our top 10 crime fiction debuts — a rare double, as those who follow these annual lists will know.

Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story.

She, like her character Meg, turned into a workaday writer, producing three mystery novels: Dead Clever, In Your Face, and Seaside (all three links go to the full text at Google), featuring the sassy sleuth, Lily Pascale, an English professor who just happens to specialize in horror and crime fiction as well as creative writing.

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on, but if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!

Posted October 30, 2014 by Joel Goldman & filed under Crime Fiction, Crime fiction fun, halloween, holidays, horror novels, suspense Fiction, Crime fiction fun, halloween, holidays, horror novels, suspense fiction fun, halloween, holidays, horror novels, suspense novels.

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Joe McKinney is the San Antonio - based author of several horror, crime and science fiction novels.

His longer works include the four part Dead World series, made up of Dead City, Apocalypse of the Dead, Flesh Eaters and The Zombie King; the science fiction disaster tale, Quarantined, which was nominated for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a novel, 2009; and the crime novel, Dodging Bullets.

But my crime fiction author acquaintance is seeing $ 7,000 — $ 10,000 per month for 8 novels or so, and this will grow as new material gets added.

Posted September 11, 2014 by Joel Goldman & filed under Crime Fiction, Crime Novels, Reading fiction, Writing Crime Fiction, Writing Crime ThrFiction, Crime Novels, Reading fiction, Writing Crime Fiction, Writing Crime Thrfiction, Writing Crime Fiction, Writing Crime ThrFiction, Writing Crime Thrillers.

The variations on this theme are infinite, but it's often more than a little difficult to decide what's simply a suspenseful vampire novel and what's a true genre blend involving vampires and crime fiction.

With the conclusion of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series, the Harry Hole novels now assume the top spot in the Scandinavian crime - fiction universe.

His breakout novel, Motherless Brooklyn (1999), proved to be a far more successful blending of his literary aspirations and crime - fiction influences.

Hamilton s five Eve Diamond crime novels have been short - listed for many awards, including the Edgar Award in mystery, Willa Cather award in literary fiction and the UK's Creasey Dagger Award.

Lippman's latest standalone novel of crime fiction, Wilde Lake, is perhaps her most personal, and certainly one of her best.

More than a decade after winning the 1992 Best First Novel Edgar for Slow Motion Riot, Peter Blauner has returned from writing scripts for television to spin another noir crime fiction steeped in moral relativism and driven by a flawed, but empathetic, protagonist.