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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.

Not exact matches

Famed former Manhattan sex - crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein, a best - selling novelist who in 2007 wrote a Vanity Fair column about wanting to make a movie with Weinstein, worked as a consultant for the mogul after he was accused of groping the Italian model.

Bursting with the same charismatic, comic book energy that skyrockets through most of his movies, old crime reporter, novelist, war hero, writer - director and sometime producer Samuel Fuller, almost 69, still moves and talks like his daffy action flicks — like the wild man from Borneo — in quick, short, blocky punches, like two - fisted slabs of socko headline type.»

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.

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.

In her episode of Adventures in Moviegoing, the award - winning novelist spoke with programmer Michael Sragow about films she loves, including ones that have influenced her approach to crime fiction.

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.

Writing would be Noah Hawley, a novelist and TV writer with a CV including crime comedy - drama Bones.

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.

Over its pages the killer has scrawled a diary of his own crimes, providing Kildare with four suspects; novelist George Gissing, philosopher Karl Marx, music hall favourite Dan Leno (Douglas Booth) and playwright John Cree (Sam Reid), whose music hall star wife Elizabeth (Olivia Cooke) had just been imprisoned for his poisoning.

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.»

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

Most of my TV - watching is done online these days, so maybe it's not surprising that I missed the March premiere of «Castle,» a new crime drama that stars Nathan Fillion as best - selling novelist Richard Castle, who teams up with a no - nonsense NYC cop to catch a killer who's copying the crimes from his books.

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.

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

South African novelist Lauren Beukes, author of last year's supernatural thriller The Shining Girls, returns this fall with a new violent mash - up of fantasy and crime fiction.

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.

The bestselling novelist, venturing into the true crime arena with 2002 ′ s «Portrait of a Killer,» accused William Sickert, an acclaimed English artist, of -LSB-...]

The bestselling novelist, venturing into the true crime arena with 2002 ′ s «Portrait of a Killer,» accused William Sickert, an acclaimed English artist, of committing the notorious Whitechapel murders of the late 1880s.

Years ago when I was at Doubleday I worked with crime novelist Robert Crais.

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

«[A] remarkably rich series... As it evolves, it becomes clear that Leon deserves her place not only with the finest international crime writers (Michael Dibdin and Henning Mankell, for example) but also with literary novelists who explore the agonies of the everyday (Margaret Drabble and Anne Tyler, among others).»

The author left in his wake, too, a stylistic legacy that has inspired successive generations of detective novelists; without Chandler (along with Hammett and Macdonald) having shown them the way, people such as Parker, Michael Connelly, Timothy Harris, Arthur Lyons, Max Allan Collins, Robert Crais, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Loren D. Estleman might never have found their way into writing crime fiction.

With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes.

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