Sentences with phrase «murder mystery novels»

Lisa is also the author of the well - received murder mystery novels «Death in a Wine Dark Sea» and «Vulture au Vin.»
If you love equine murder mystery novels, then meet Susan Schreyer, Author of The Thea Campbell Mysteries.
This is a great piece describing a four - act, two - body plot structure for murder mystery novels.
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.
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.
Jeff Mirus writes here on modern murder mystery novels.
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.
The film is based on Peter Ackroyd's murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and features a cast that includes Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, and Eddie Marsan; take a look below...
With its cast of sheep, instead of people, Swann's ovine murder mystery novel is witty and entertaining.
Are concepts such as character arc / progression rendered pointless in a circadian murder mystery novel?
«Not to brag, but my JoeDunnit murder mystery novel didn't cost me nothing, and it's selling like fire on Smashwords.»
Lisa is also the author of the well - received murder mystery novel «Death in a Wine Dark Sea.»
Lisa is also the author of the well - received murder mystery novel «Death in a Wine Dark Sea» and the recently released «Vulture au Vin.»

Not exact matches

(This blog may give you some clues, but I'd hope my novel would involve a bit more murder and mystery!)
The novel is a murder mystery set in an Italian Benedictine abbey in the year 1327.
The novel is a murder mystery set in an....
H.G. McKinnis is the author of the forthcoming novel A Justified Bitch: A Las Vegas Mystery (Imbrifex Books, August 8, 2017), a twisted tale of murder, hoarding, and redemption.
Whether it's a young adult novel or a classic murder mystery, grab a mug of hot chocolate and let your mind get lost in a story and your imagination run free because of it.
Based on a novel by Friedrich Duerrenmatt,» The Pledge» is a psychological murder mystery in which the central character is at once investigator, possible suspect, and angst ridden carrier of the world's woes, and damned if Penn doesn't draw you inside this labyrinth of existential murk.
Adapted straight from Agatha Christie's novel, actor / filmmaker Kenneth Branagh directs this updated version of the murder mystery, with a very impressive cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Olivia Colman, Miranda Raison, and Derek Jacobi.
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.
It's still a good novel, but the level of intrigue almost felt like the novel should have been part of a different series, since it was more reminiscent of espionage thriller than a murder mystery.
Recasting James M. Cain's rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all - American ambition is both unremittingly hard - boiled and sumptuously emotional.
The gothic murder mystery is written by Jane Goldman based on Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel Dan Leno And The Limeshouse Golem.
A former television film, based on Agatha Christie's most popular mystery novel, «Murder on the Orient Express» gets the big screen treatment with a cast as long as the train.
Walter's carefully ordered world spins out of control when Agatha gives him a book as a birthday present — a murder mystery entitled The Number 23 — A Novel Of Obsession by Topsy Kretts.
Based on the 2008 article True Crimes: A Postmodern Murder Mystery by David Grann, Carrey plays «a hard - boiled detective who becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner - workings of an unsolved murder.&rMurder Mystery by David Grann, Carrey plays «a hard - boiled detective who becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner - workings of an unsolved murder.&rmurder.».
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.
Set in the grounds of Hope's Peak Academy, Danganronpa is a murder mystery interactive novel that relishes in its own absurdity.
Other notable newly featured films include the better - than - you'd - expect noirish Nightmare Alley, a more than adequate adaptation of Virginia Woolf's difficult - to - film novel Mrs. Dalloway, Tommy Lee Jones's strong directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and the unjustly forgotten William Powell - led mystery The Kennel Murder Case.
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.
The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill (a.k.a Stephen King's son), «Horns» is a unique horror flick about the devil inside us all, and the film, adapted by one of the genre's true prankster geniuses (Alexandre Aja of «Piranha 3D» infamy), carries forth the same nutzo spirit of the book, which is equal parts love story, murder mystery, and supernatural, metaphysical nightmare.
The third - person shooter differs greatly from the original games, which are visual novels centered around murder mysteries.
William Giraldi's novel of the same name tells the story of an Alaska murder mystery blended with wolf survival story.
Murder on the Orient Express (20th Century - Fox Home Entertainment), adapted from Agatha Christie's 1934 mystery novel, is a stylish - looking, all - star drama directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.
The 10 - episode murder mystery series, adapted from Caleb Carr's bestselling novel, stars my husband, Daniel Brühl, my other husband, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning as a badass independent woman in Gilded Age New York City.
This chilling miniature from actor and some - time director Mathieu Amalric, adapted from a 1964 novel by Georges Simenon, dispenses with the screw - turning mechanics of the traditional murder mystery to ask one question: what is it like to feel guilty?
«From executive producer Eli Roth and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, Hemlock Grove is a riveting one - hour murder mystery that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town.
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-...]
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 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 murder mysteries, so promotion for the latest film adaptation of the novel began with reintroducing the strangers on a train.
It's a fast exhilarating murder mystery, based on the Sebastian Japrisot novel, with a cast that boasted many of the same actors as «Z ``: Montand, Trintignant, Perrin, and Denner.
In his 2008 article «True Crime: A Postmodern Murder Mystery,» The New Yorker's resident chronicler of deadly obsessions, David Grann, recounted the strange case of a Polish writer who became the prime suspect in an unsolved murder after a detective recognized details of the crime in his debut Murder Mystery,» The New Yorker's resident chronicler of deadly obsessions, David Grann, recounted the strange case of a Polish writer who became the prime suspect in an unsolved murder after a detective recognized details of the crime in his debut murder after a detective recognized details of the crime in his debut novel.
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.
When she wrote her first novel, a murder mystery, her husband read the manuscript and assured her that it was good — but still, she hesitated.
Lucretia Grindle's latest novel, Villa Triste, is an engaging blend of historical fiction and present day murder mystery.
This month, the Half Moon Bay Library celebrated its first year of its new Senior Mystery Book Club with our 13th book: Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery, a gritty, atmospheric novel tracking a string of unsolved murders in Botswana.
Being both a historic novel and a murder mystery, it combines elements that aren't in other fictions.
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