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NPR reviews the latest mystery novel by J.K. Rowling — published under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.
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At No. 2 was Only the Innocent, a mystery novel by Rachel Abbott, which had hogged the top spot on Amazon for a month early in the year, selling 100,000 copies at a price that earned Rachel the 70 % royalty rate.
Detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) was originally removed from a missing child case but is reassigned with a new partner, Detective Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), when the 13 - year - old's body is found in this Canadian crime drama based on the mystery novels by Giles Blunt.
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Not exact matches
The Lake House by Kate Morton:: I adore a big gorgeous gothic mystery novel set in England.
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.
Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.
Led by prolific junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes and a struggling defense, every game will be a mystery novel.
DRIVING through the baking landscape of Almería, it is no mystery why this Spanish province is home to a novel type of power station that generates electricity by harnessing the heat of the sun.
Researchers Nissim Benvenisty, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and principal co-author of the study, and Ido Sagi, a PhD student, said in a statement that their work also provides a novel way to study human development and may help solve mysteries like why we reproduce sexually, while some other creatures can create offspring by themselves.
Let me preface what I'm about to say by letting you all know that between Serial, Making a Murderer and the mystery novels I've been listening to on Audible during long runs, I am on a total true crime kick.
I have a deep fondness for mystery novels written by English writers, many of them female.
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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.
Based on the Walt Longmire Mystery series of novels by Craig Johnson, Longmire also is named after its central character, Walt Longmire, the local sheriff in rural Wyoming.
A baker's dozen of books featuring the character of Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins were penned by author Walter Mosley, and it's a shame the box office failure of Devil in a Blue Dress, the screen adaptation of the first Rawlins novel, prevented any more mysteries from making the leap from page to screen.
Adapting the novel by John Green, they were asked to translate the mystery so...
Actor turned director Tate Taylor proves to be even less adept crafting mystery thrillers than he does insincere period melodrama with his third feature, The Girl on the Train, an adaptation of the bestselling pulp novel by Paula Hawkins.
The gothic murder mystery is written by Jane Goldman based on Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel Dan Leno And The Limeshouse Golem.
Tomas Alfredson's The Snowman is based on a 2007 novel by Jo Nesbø, one of his gratifyingly tangled mystery thrillers featuring troubled cop Harry Hole.
Based on the 2006 novel by Naomi Alderman, Disobedience — like all meaningful movies about the mysteries of love — never tips its hand to indicate where it's going.
Kenneth Branagh directs and leads an all - star cast, including Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench and Leslie Odom, Jr., in this stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mystery based on the best selling novel by Agatha Christie.
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.».
«Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane» (39:38) is a condensed new cut of a 1998 documentary on author Mickey Spillane directed by mystery writer Max Allan Collins (the author of Road to Perdition's source graphic novel and assorted film novelizations).
We just mentioned The Girl on the Train earlier today when talking about the Liam Neeson movie The Commuter — Girl is based on the novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, and follows a woman whose problems haunt her after she is pulled into a mystery involving a couple that she imagines to enjoy the perfect marriage.
The passion, violence, mystery, and beauty of India are rapturously evoked in Merchant Ivory Productions» acclaimed Heat and Dust, based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and starring Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor and Greta Scacchi.
These riveting performances were followed by a starring role opposite John Travolta in the crime thriller The Forger, Paramount's horror comedy Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), in addition to Gilles Paquet - Brenner's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's mystery novel Dark Places (2015) alongside Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz and Nicholas Hoult.
Based on a novel by mystery writer Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh begins in flashback with pregnant Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penelope Cruz) giving birth on a Madrid city bus.
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.
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.
That's not to say that Mystery Men has nothing to offer: it features some nice comic book style production designs of a Gotham - like city that can be described as a mixture between the Batman movies and Metropolis, but reminded me more of the excellent Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Gibbons.
Such is the microcosm at the center of Jean Renoir's Night at the Crossroads, a stunning mystery thriller based on the novel by Georges Simenon, one of the greatest of all detective writers.
Adapting the novel by John Green, they were asked to translate the mystery so important to the book onto the big screen.
Based on the novel by Joe Gores, the story, which is set in the 1920s, centers on detective novelist Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest, well cast), who early in his career gets involved in a mystery that reportedly shaped his literary works and perhaps even his personal life.
An action - packed mystery western based on the best - selling novel by Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare), Breakheart Pass throws open the throttle...
Screenwriter Jane Anderson has adapted the novel by Meg Wolitzer with magnificent brilliance, with a striking nuance and wealth of subtle shadings that reveal the slow peeling onion of the film's core mystery.
Garland (adapting a novel by Jeff VanderMeer that is the first of a trilogy) does a masterful job of building the mystery, dropping plot hints like so many bread crumbs, jolting us with «gotcha!»
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 film, based on a novel by mystery novelist Karin Fossum won, 10 David di Donatella Awards (Italy's equivalent of the Oscar), including Best Film and Best Actor (Toni Servillo).
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.
It's also meticulously directed by David Fincher, who takes Gillian Flynn's adapted screenplay (from her own best selling novel), and crafts a moody intelligent mystery you could enjoy even after several screenings.
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?
by Walter Chaw Somewhere in the translation from Jeff Shaara's only so - so novel Gods and Generals to Ronald F. Maxwell's magnificently bad film Gods and Generals lies the mystery of why the younger Shaaras and the Maxwells of the world see fit to take a Pulitzer Prize - winning novel like Jeff Shaara's The Killer Angels and make a country - fried trilogy out of it.
MYSTERIES OF LISBON By Tony Pipolo Raúl Ruiz turns a classic 19th - century novel into a 21st - century masterpiece
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.
In the meantime she is filming the comedy / drama The English Teacher opposite Julianne Moore and then will segue into the lead role of «Clary Fray» in The Mortal Instruments a fantasy / mystery / romance based on the novel by Cassandra Clare.