Sentences with phrase «crime novelist»

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 >

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.

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» murders that mesmerized London in the late 1800s.

Director Brad Furman (The Take) and screenwriter John Romano (TV's Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law) take a sinewy yarn by crime novelist Michael Connelly and make a crackling good thriller of it.

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.

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.

Ethan Hawke is a true crime novelist in the new horror / thriller, Sinister from Summit Entertainment, the producer of the Paranormal Activity franchise and the writer / director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

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.

Other posts contain interviews with evidence experts and crime novelists about their work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hugely popular Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo (Headhunters) takes his first stab at an original screenplay with Jackpot, a darkly humorous effort from director Magnus Martens that pits four friends against one another when they strike it rich.

You can blame a screenplay, by the best - selling crime novelist Gregg Hurwitz, that leans much too heavily on coincidence and contrivances, or you can blame the direction by Colin Trevorrow that lacks the fluky charm of his indie breakthrough «Safety Not Guaranteed» (2012) while embracing the plastic commercialism of his «Jurassic World» (2015).

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.

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.

Acclaimed crime novelist Walter Mosley has chronicled Easy's ups and downs in 14 novels, beginning in 1990 with «Devil in a Blue Dress.»

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.

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

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.

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

«The Singing Detective» (Paramount Classics) Based on the pitch - perfect BBC series, Robert Downey Jr. plays a bedridden crime novelist who hallucinates himself as the lead character in an imaginary screenplay.

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

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.

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

April 7, 2018 • The Norwegian crime novelist says he tries to avoid other people's ideas.

Based on crime novelist Daniel Woodrell's 2006 book, Winter's Bone centers on Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), a toughened 17 - year - old girl living in the Missouri Ozarks.

Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, the crime writer who boasts more screenplays based on his work than any other crime novelist, it follows Louis Mahé (Jean - Paul Belmondo), a rich tobacco plantation owner on the island of Réunion, who sends away for a bride named Julie Roussel he met in the newspaper personals column.

Konrath, a midlist crime novelist whose series featuring detective Jacqueline «Jack» Daniels has been published by Hyperion in paperback for years, is an active self - promoter who's repeatedly spoken of the financial success he's had self - publishing his backlist as Kindle editions.

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

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.

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.

Coming soon: Trust No One by Paul Cleave Cleave's new novel, coming August 4 from Atria Books, stars a well - known crime novelist, Jerry Grey, who has early - onset Alzheimer's.

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.

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

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.

The twelfth episode features noted crime novelist and also one of the men behind the creation of Black Pulp, Gary Phillips.

Crime novelist JA Konrath has been very public about how much more money he earns on his self - published Kindle novels than he does on those released by his publishers, and Stephen R. Covey (the Seven Habits guy) has recently announced his plans to self - publish in 2010.