Sentences with phrase «literary thriller»

It's a smart, literary thriller with a supernatural twist.

The list below brings together some of the most memorable literary thrillers of recent years.

A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town.

Dobyns is an award - winning poet and the author of the wonderful Saratoga mystery series; occasionally, he combines both his poetic and popular sides in literary thrillers that plumb depths far below the surface of the crimes they describe.

This cunning literary thriller from Roman Polanski intrigues rather than wows at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

A trio of fine actors animates Egan's intriguing characters and enlivens this vividly realized mix of literary thriller and historical fiction.

However, it is also a deliciously complicated literary thriller set in two time periods with three narrative perspectives, which also serves as a fine cautionary tale.

A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town.

In the surreal and paranoid underworld of wartime Prague, a man of God seeks the woman he once loved... Experience what readers have called «A deliciously dark tale»...» Hauntingly real»... and «A beautifully written literary thriller.»

I reviewed The Swimming Pool for BookPage's August debut roundup, and I suppose you would describe the story as a sexy literary thriller filled with lots of family drama — perfect for a winter weekend when you want to disappear for a few hours with a good read.

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Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

Miller's (technically an expat living in Oslo) debut literary thriller is an expert blend of humor and questions of race, memory and time.

It's the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe's glossy update of Graham Greene's canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock.

Lake, who won in 2013 for In Darkness, offers a new literary thriller that was inspired by a haunting moment in his own life: A coyote ran across his path in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this image resonated through his mind and life until coming to rest within the pages of There Will Be Lies (Bloomsbury).

A taut literary thriller with fierce characters, a breathtaking setting, and nuanced, beautiful prose?

Love literary thrillers: The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer It seems fitting that the author and narrator of this book have the same name; it is, after all, a mystery about writers and writing.

- Kirkus «This playful literary thriller from Langer (The Thieves of Manhattan) about the imperiled state of writers and books in the 21st century suggests Paul Auster's New York Trilogy with a lighter touch.»

For fans of Paul Auster, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene comes this bold, prize - winning literary thriller.

Stone's take on millennial apocalypse is a quintessential literary thriller.

When a woman accepts a job at a prestigious publishing house, she must deal with hostile coworkers, an overbearing boss, and an anonymous manuscript that begins to eerily mimic her real life in this cleverly plotted literary thriller.

Three female - led literary thrillers explore the ways in which love (both romantic and familial) can nurture or destroy, and how devastating the consequences can be when it does the latter.

«Allende does an amazing job of developing characters in this taut, suspenseful literary thriller.

Sexy and fast - paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years.

Finally, Louise Doughty's 2016 - released Black Water is a fantastic literary thriller set on the island in 1965 and 1998, as well as in Jakarta and California in the 1960s, following the life of a Dutch - Indonesian man born in a Japanese internment camp.

The second variety of literary thriller is the contemporary novel that hits the crime - filled mean streets hard but, again, abandons formula in favor of a more wide - sweeping approach to social issues and interpersonal dynamics.

A tribute to horror - story master Shirley Jackson, this novel weaves events from the writer's life into a hypnotic story that will please Jackson fans as well as anyone in search of a solidly written literary thriller.

-- Clyde EdgertonIn his phenomenal debut novel — a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town — author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling.

In a live conversation that covered her career at this year's Telluride film festival, the Oscar nominated actor spoke of the 16 - hour days during production of the literary thriller and «laughing between takes» to help ease the tension.

New England White BY STEPHEN CARTER At nearly 600 pages, this isn't a quick beach read but a literary thriller focused on wealth, race, politics, and a murder, set on the campus of the country's most prestigious university.

For its debut this month, Rooster offers Herman Melville's «Billy Budd» and a literary thriller called «I Was Here,» written specifically for Rooster's serialized format by Rachel Kadish.

Fiction interests: Commercial literary fiction with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice (such as Burial Rites by Hannah Kent and The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman); mystery (particularly cozy, historical, and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), psychological suspense, and literary thriller.

Fiction interests: commercial literary fiction with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice (such as The Light Between Oceans); mystery (particularly cozy, historical, and crossover literary), psychological suspense, and literary thriller.

Fiction interests: women's fiction with an emotionally charged hook (think Jojo Moyes or The Light We Lost); book club fiction; psychological suspense and literary thriller; and mystery (particularly cozy and crossover literary).

As a literary agent, she is looking for new voices, character - driven fiction or nonfiction works that reflect an engagement with the world around us, literary thrillers, memoirs, YA literature and graphic novels.

A coming - of - age novel and a literary thriller that weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an unforgettable story about the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.

Many of you expressed interest in this literary thriller set in Mississippi... and if you're signed up for XTRA, tomorrow just might be your lucky day!

The gallery heist in the book is real, and B.A. Shapiro's extensive research of the event adds a realistic quality to this literary thriller.

Lake describes this literary thriller about a family taken hostage by Somali pirates as a fairy tale.

Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.

I reviewed this book for BookPage back in 2004 and said it was «more than a literary thriller,» if you read it, let me know if you agree!

The author, whose 2007 debut, Special Topics In Calamity Physics was structured around a syllabus for a college literature course, switches focus to a different art form in a literary thriller about a reclusive movie director.

BookPage reviewer Stephenie Harrison calls this literary thriller «gorgeous and gut - wrenching.»

For fans of Denis Johnson and Peter Matthiessen, a literary thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction.

A literary thriller (quite literally) which is smart enough to get the mental cogs whirring, with a depth of characterization rare in a thriller, but with an action quotient more than high enough to keep one up late into the night.

It is a literary thriller in the tradition of The Name of the Rose, Possession and The Secret History.

She primarily works on fiction and is especially interested in dark, literary thrillers and suspense.

Bringing werewolves back into horror, Benjamin Percy has written a literary thriller with a complex world.

This month's Whodunit column features a newly translated Scandinavian hit, a spy - filled thriller, a Hitchcockian story set in Boston and a tension - filled literary thriller.