Sentences with phrase «for mystery novels»

Best known for his mystery novels about Dr. Siri Paiboun (including The Coroner's Lunch), today Colin Cotterill launches a new series with Killed at the Whim of a Hat, the story of a crime reporter based in rural Thailand who is surrounded by a kooky cast of characters.

Best known for his mystery novels, Walter Mosley takes a turn to literary fiction in this poignant story of an old man's final days.

I have a deep fondness for mystery novels written by English writers, many of them female.

If you think writing your mystery novel is hard, just wait until you try to come up with the perfect title for your mystery novel!

Considering how much work it has to do, it's no wonder finding the perfect title for your mystery novel is so much work itself!

But you can get a jeweler to make jewelry based on your book, aprons for your cookbook, a bottle of wine named for your mystery novel.

If you're looking for a mystery novel with wit, heart and class, get to know the books of Donna Leon.»

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Not exact matches

I'm not a good companion for languid hours on the beach reading diversionary mystery novels while sipping gin and tonics.

It may seem incongruous to review a book by a reigning Pope alongside a novel by a writer famed for her Vampire Chronicles, but both bring us face to face with the mystery of the Incarnation.

As Temecula's most famous resident for 35 years and known to many locals as «Uncle Erle,» Gardner is widely recognized for creating the character in the murder mystery novels made famous in the «Perry Mason» television series from the 1950s.

As for using cookbooks, I used to feel the same until i just started reading them straight through like mystery novels or «travel guides» if you will!

She usually stays up way too late reading at night and has a weakness for mysteries and graphic novels.

It is also mentioned in the novel «The Great Gatsby,» in which narrator Nick Carraway says, «The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.»

Author Robert Harris turns to the mysteries of the papal conclave for his new novel — ambition and intrigues are familiar ground to a former political journalist

For Blackboard Jungle he used the pseudonym Evan Hunter and for the police mystery novels he went under Ed McBaFor Blackboard Jungle he used the pseudonym Evan Hunter and for the police mystery novels he went under Ed McBafor the police mystery novels he went under Ed McBain.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel.

Embrace what others might deem as «predictable» or «boring,» by utilizing mystery novel cliches within your outfit: use each of the iconic characters as inspiration for each piece you wear!

entry into the Danganronpa Visual Novel series for the Sony platforms, D3 not only has shown the type of growth that i've come to expect from this series, but arguably sets the standard for all other Visual mystery novels going forward.

It certainly won't work to The Girl on the Train's advantage to be compared to David Fincher's Gone Girl but the proximity of the two properties — both feature strong female leads, are based on best selling novels and center on soapy surburian murder mysteries — make such comparisons as unavoidable as they may be unfavorable for director Tate Taylor.

With The Hippopotamus set to receive its North American premiere this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the first poster and trailer have arrived online for director John Jencks» upcoming adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1994 best - selling comedy novel of the same name; take a look below... A country manor mystery that's actually a deliciously -LSB-...]

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.

Nicole Holofcener, well - known for putting women front and center in numerous astute indies like Lovely & Amazing and Enough Said, adapted the screenplay from the novel by award - winning mystery writer Laura Lippman.

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.

It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.

The characters are good, no question it's a nice mystery and a good script of Franklin's adaptation of Mosley's novel, but the story is also a bit difficult to follow, and if you can't keep up with all the characters you'll end up not knowing or caring what happens for the last half of the film.

Official Premise: The world's two greatest masters of the art of deduction, Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud, meet for the first time in this delightful mystery adventure based on the best - selling novel by Nicholas Meyer.

With just two weeks to go until the release of Murder on the Orient Express, a behind the scenes featurette has arrived online for Kenneth Branagh's star - studded adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel which features interviews with Branagh, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Leslie Odom Jr., Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Penelope Cruz; take a look below...

With just two weeks to go until the release of Murder on the Orient Express, a behind the scenes featurette has arrived online for Kenneth Branagh's star - studded adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel which features interviews with Branagh, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Leslie Odom Jr., Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Penelope Cruz; take a -LSB-...]

Ahead of its release next month, a batch of new character posters have arrived online for Kenneth Branagh's star - studded adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express featuring Branagh, Olivia Colman, Penelope Cruz, Sergei Polunin, Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., Lucy -LSB-...]

Charlotte Rampling (Stardust Memories, The Verdict) stars as Sarah Morton, a best - selling author of a series of murder mystery novels, who takes up her publisher's offer to stay in his lavish home in France while she draws up inspiration for her next book.

Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express is one of the most famous murder mysteries, so promotion for the latest film adaptation of the novel began with reintroducing the strangers on a train.

Based on the seventh book in a series of popular mystery novels written by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, there is no reason on the face of the earth for The Snowman to be as inept or as flat - out awful as it proves to be.

Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock begins with a tantalizing note, a mystery within the mystery of the book itself: «Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves.

Not only do you have millions of fans that will demand the film be faithful, but with «The Da Vinci Code» you also have a mystery novel so meticulous and focussed that it leaves very little room for interpretation.

A textbook example on how to craft a successful murder mystery, the film's major twist - the sudden appearance of the supposedly deceased - also became a standard story template for several Universal TV series, including «Columbo» and «Magnum P.I.» «Laura» was also remade several times for TV, and Vera Casparay's novel enjoyed a long publishing legacy.

She is seeking: In fiction, she's currently looking for character - driven novels that fall under the following genres: historical fiction, mainstream fiction, literary fiction, mystery, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, middle grade, and young adult.

Her first mystery novel, Safe Harbor, was shortlisted for Britain's Debut Dagger in 2010.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

Some, such as the Minotaur Books / Mystery Writers First Crime Novel Competition for unpublished traditional mystery novels, have big Mystery Writers First Crime Novel Competition for unpublished traditional mystery novels, have big mystery novels, have big stakes.

His last novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, was hailed as «a relentlessly crackling mystery and adventure tale» (The Baltimore Sun) and «a new standard for war - based thrillers» (Los Angeles Times).

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.

Set in Britain just after World War II, the novel stars Flavia de Luce, a fiercely intelligent 11 - year - old with a talent for chemistry and a nose for mystery.

Ed McBain held the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, and received an Edgar Award nomination for his novel Money, Money, Money.

Heartstone, his first novel, was nominated for an Edgar for best original paperback mystery of 1978 by the Mystery Writers of Amystery of 1978 by the Mystery Writers of AMystery Writers of America.

Instead, you might want to consider adding a little more romance to your mystery novel to create some crossover appeal, or querying agents for a little longer before starting down the self - publishing route.

You will be spoiled for choice from the more than 1 million free ebooks available in 8 subjects including biographies, mystery novels, romance and religion.

This is the fifth consecutive time I've assembled, for Kirkus, a year - end list of my favorite crime, mystery, and thriller novels published in the United States during the preceding 12 months.