Sentences with phrase «modern crime novels»

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I love, love books set in modern day Japan, especially crime ones — the local culture just provides such a fascinating twist to the «normal» American crime novels I usually read.

The tangled, darkly comic plotting might smack of an assortment of crime movies from around the world, but the visual style has a distinctive character, closer to the static panels, crisp lines, and muted colors of modern graphic novels than to traditional animation.

Based on James Ellroy's novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public image, strange bedfellows, and the allure of the Hollywood glamour industry.

Crime novels are a dime a dozen, but The Shadow Walker stands apart for both its exotic setting in modern - day Mongolia and its intriguing investigator Nergui.

Michael Walters is the author of the Nergui novels - a series of crime thrillers set in modern - day Mongolia.

His first attempt at a novel, titled «The Lure,» was a crime drama centered on the modern - day surfacing of a 110 - carat yellow diamond lost during the French Revolution.

These crime novels follow intriguing mysteries with great detectives from renowned authors like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to newer authors continuing the genre into the modern area.

Ranging from London clubs to teeming prisons, from a lost century to the modern age, this novel is a panoramic revelation of things we thought we knew or else had no clue of, as well as a gripping exploration of what goals drive us toward whatever lies in wait — an experience resounding with issues, no less relevant today, of crime and spirituality; of identity and nationality; of what we think, what we believe and what we can prove.

Only Benjamin Black, a modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as today's best crime fiction.

A noir - style crime drama with a graphic novel aesthetic, each choice made changes the game you end up experiencing, and Episode 3 picks up where we left off, unraveling a deep murder mystery in a modern American city.