They honor the best
in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
The biggest names
in mystery fiction share their favorite family recipes and detective - inspired dishes.
On January 19, the Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best
in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2017.
Acclaimed mystery writers Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart received the Grandmasters Award, and the Egdars also heralded the arrival of some exciting new voices
in mystery fiction.
From private eyes to police detectives to determined amateurs like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, there are many great women detectives
in mystery fiction.
The 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Award winners — honoring the very best
in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2013 — have been announced!
Edgar Award - winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals
in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of...
Here are some highlights from the 2009 awards for best
in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2008.
Not exact matches
The «
mystery thriller» is the basic template for his own
fiction, but
in his stories, the word «
mystery» takes on its arcane, almost its pre-Christian connotations of ritual and spiritual power.
J. R. R. Tolkien,
in On Fairy - Stories, coined a term for the way the redemptive
mystery is explored
in fiction: he called it the eucatastrophe.
The book is super cute, exactly the type of
mystery - meets - chick lit - meets foodie
fiction type of book I read when I am alone (if I'm
in public, it's War and Peace or something that makes me look smart, of course).
Knowing of my interest
in crime
fiction and detective stories my late father -
in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made
in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium
Mystery.
These books would appear
in full, so the reader of the novel would read the reading of the narrator —
mysteries, romances, westerns, sci fi, and «literary»
fiction, his taste would be catholic.
This year's books had something for everyone with
mysteries, historical
fiction and non-
fiction, books
in a series and books that have been made into films.
The stories, from an online repository of books
in the public domain called Project Gutenberg, fell into one of six genres:
mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science
fiction.
So I picked 3 that I really really loved — All The Missing Girls (a thriller), Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (quirky
fiction) and Party Girls Die
in Pearls (a
mystery).
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Fiction, A
Mystery
While my taste
in books ranges from YA to historical
fiction to chick lit, I've found myself gravitating toward
mysteries & thrillers lately.
We're interested
in a wide range of genres including romance, fantasy, YA,
mystery, women's
fiction and self - help and business non-
fiction.
We specialize
in genre
fiction: romance,
mystery, suspense, thrillers, horror, science
fiction, fantasy, contemporary, graphic and action novels.
And those novels, just like novels
in genres like science
fiction and
mystery, share common elements but vary
in quality, depending on how well they're written.
Adapted here by Alex Garland, riding on the modest success of his directorial debut, Ex Machina, as an infidelity
mystery wrapped
in big science
fiction ideas and a splicing of cinematic DNA of Andrei Tarkovsky and John Carpenter, among others.
A haunting and genuinely frightening, sci - fi
mystery that's as elliptical and unnerving as Tarkovsky's Stalker and as trippy as Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - with a plethora of other science
fiction influences thrown
in for good measure.
It may feature science
fiction tropes such as being set
in some alternate universe
in which human cloning existed since the 1960s as well as clones being harvested for their organs, hardly an original idea (see the 1979 movie The Clonus Horror, which was understandably spoofed by
Mystery Science Theater 3000).
A chase film with tinges of science
fiction in the margins, this is a thriller that does not burden its audience or overcomplicate its narrative with extraneous exposition, allowing you as the viewer to piece many of its
mysteries together yourself.
Paradise goes up
in flames
in The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, a stranger - than -
fiction murder
mystery in documentary form.
Science
Fiction always seems to work best when it goes all
in with the
mystery and intrigue that comes with the unknown.
Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes
in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog
mystery plot born of the director's love for detective
fiction.
A sublimely articulated mindbender, seductively crafted, steeped
in mystery, and one that teases the audience with numerous ambiguities, and needling puzzles, Blade Runner 2049 is one of speculative
fiction's crown jewels.
There isn't a bad film
in the bunch, and really, this is some of the greatest
mystery fiction ever written.
What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science
fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands
in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best
mystery / suspense films
in recent years («Lone Star»)?
A haunting and genuinely frightening, sci - fi
mystery that's as elliptical and unnerving as Tarkovsky's Stalker and as trippy as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey — with a plethora of other science
fiction influences thrown
in for good measure.
The books, we told them, can be
fiction, non-
fiction, humor,
mystery, biography, pedagogy; for teachers, about teachers, for children, for parents; long, short, old, new...
in other words, any book at all that you have enjoyed or learned from within the last few years.
I surrounded the octopus with titles of the genres that my students will be reading: fantasy,
mystery, adventure, science
fiction, realistic
fiction, historical
fiction, biography, and nonfiction (these large titles are hard to see
in this photograph).
For adult
fiction, she is most interested
in literary
fiction,
mystery, thriller, upmarket women's
fiction, science
fiction and fantasy, and horror.
Equity of Evil by Rudy Mazzocchi is the winner of the Gold Medal for the
Mystery / Suspense / Thriller category
in the 2011 eLIT Awards; a finalist
in the Suspense / Thriller category of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the winner
in the Suspense
Fiction category of the 2012 Global eBook Awards.
Founded by Robert Randisi and Ed Gorman
in the late 1980s to bring together professional
mystery authors
in a private forum to exchange ideas, the American Crime Writers League is still going strong
in the 21st century as a writing organization for serious and proven writers of
mystery fiction.
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.
Jill is interested
in: commercial
fiction, with an emphasis on
mysteries, thrillers, romantic suspense and horror, women's commercial
fiction and historical
fiction.
They are especially interested
in mysteries, women's
fiction, thrillers, horror, and science
fiction, but are always on the lookout for fine nonfiction (health, medicine, nature, how - to, parenting) and even young adult books.
In middle grade:, she loves adventure or survival stories,
mysteries, science
fiction, fantasy, contemporary, and light horror.
She is actively building her client list, and is interested
in adult and teen horror,
mystery novels, thriller novels, historical
fiction, science
fiction novels, fantasy novels, and general
fiction (both YA and adult).
Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial
fiction genres, primarily
in the areas of fantasy, science
fiction, romance,
mystery, suspense and erotica.
She is actively building her client list, and is interested
in adult and teen horror,
mystery novels, thrillers, historical
fiction, science
fiction novels, fantasy novels, and general
fiction (both YA and adult).
In fiction, she seeks women's
fiction, chick lit, psychological thriller, crime, commercial mainstream
fiction, literary
fiction,
mystery, historical, suspense, and romance.
With the frenetic speed of a start - up, Amazon Publishing had
in a few years launched a series of imprints devoted to different niches:
mystery, romance, historical
fiction, science
fiction, and more.
Allium Press was founded
in 2009 as a small, independent press and publishes literary
fiction, historical
fiction,
mysteries, thrillers, middle grade, and young adult
fiction — all with a Chicago connection.
He's actively seeking out new, diverse voices
in Young Adult (particularly sci - fi and fantasy), New Adult, and Literary and Commercial
Fiction (again, loves sci - fi and fantasy, but also thrillers and
mysteries).
For example,
in order for a book to appear
in the category «Teen & Young Adult
Mystery / Science
Fiction», you must use at least one of the keywords «science fiction» or «dystopian&
Fiction», you must use at least one of the keywords «science
fiction» or «dystopian&
fiction» or «dystopian».
In middle grade, she's seeking fantasy, contemporary, action / adventure, humor,
mystery, SciFi, and historical
fiction.