Sentences with phrase «mystery novel in»

This is the sixth mystery novel in the series.

There is little I can say to add to the legend that is Ruth Rendell: today's doyenne of the mystery novel in the British Isles, check; multiple Edgar Award winner, check; spiritual heir to Dame Agatha Christie, check.

Plume, the division of Penguin who has published O'Donohue's other titles, is releasing Streak of Lightning as a stand - alone ebook - only title, a short, fun read to tide fans over until the author's next full - length mystery novel in the series is released mid-fall of this year.

Although Anne Perry is not the only contemporary author to set mystery novels in the foggy, charming days of Sherlock Holmes, nonetheless, she has made the era her own.

Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top - ten - best mystery novels of the year.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

She then began adding new indie novels, a young adult dark fantasy novel, a chicklit novel, and several cozy momlit mystery novels in a new Secret Shopper Mom series.

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The Lake House by Kate Morton:: I adore a big gorgeous gothic mystery novel set in England.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

The novel is a murder mystery set in an Italian Benedictine abbey in the year 1327.

A mystery novel offers us a glimpse of the fulfillment of that hope: in the context of a story we observe the convergence of human and divine justice.

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.

In the shadowy world of the mystery novel, nothing is ever quite what it appears to be, including...

The novel is a murder mystery set in an....

- go to football games - attend an opera - play cards - watch any kind of movie at the theater or in your home - own a television - listen to rock, country western, or Mozart - invest in the stock market - observe Christmas with a decorated tree - decorate and hide Easter eggs - read mystery novels

In O'Connor's words, what one finds is that «the characters in these novels... have an inner coherence... their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.&raquIn O'Connor's words, what one finds is that «the characters in these novels... have an inner coherence... their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.&raquin these novels... have an inner coherence... their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.»

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

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.

This recipe was included in a preview review copy of a coming - soon novel entitled Criminal Confections (A Chocolate Whisperer Mystery).

She is the creator of anengaging, soft - boiled series of golf - themed mystery novels, making her the rarefemale in a mostly male discipline.

Which leads to the final point: in each novel, the central character finds himself in a game in which he suddenly plays beyond himself, in which basketball ceases to be a game to be won or lost and becomes a private ballet of beauty and mystery.

Avoid reading tense novels, mysteries, or scary books if that upsets you in any way.

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.

In the days after Trump stormed into the oval office, the former Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, says she drank Australian chardonnay, practised alternate nostril - breathing and read mystery novels because «the bad guy usually gets it in the end»In the days after Trump stormed into the oval office, the former Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, says she drank Australian chardonnay, practised alternate nostril - breathing and read mystery novels because «the bad guy usually gets it in the end»in the end».

It is also mentioned in the novel «The Great Gatsby,» in which narrator Nick Carraway says, «The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.»

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.

Now, to crack the mystery of why and how people around the world came to believe in moralizing gods, researchers are using a novel tool in religious studies: the scientific method.

Now, as in any good mystery novel, it's time to bring the two threads together, to show how the ancient Greeks» golden ratio and the 13th - century Fibonacci sequence are connected.

In mystery novels, a «cold stare» felt on the back of her neck routinely alarms the heroine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Originally an episodic game in Japan, this newly localized release offers the complete story as one cohesive package that most closely resembles the likes of Ace Attorney or other visual novel mystery - solving games.

THE MONKEY»S MASK (Grade: B --RRB-: Director Samantha Lang has taken an impossible task — a mystery novel written in narrative verse — and half succeeded with it.

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

While the film does center around two detectives trying to determine who drained the blood and removed the reproductive organs of some young wayward girl, the real mystery is why someone drained the intelligence out of Ellroy's novel, ripping out its soul in favor of glossy, empty - headed vacuousness.

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.

Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky's mystery / drama focuses heavily on the torture and recovery themes in Eric Lomax's 1995 autobiographical novel.

Kurosawa shares writing credits with quirky indie helmer Chihiro Ikeda in this adaptation of Yutaka Maekawa's award - winning mystery novel.

In my case, the reason might have something to do with the fact that having seen and remembered Sidney Lumet's equally star - driven 1974 film of Agatha Christie's best - known mystery novel, I already knew whodunit.

The greatest mystery in this adaptation of Dan Brown's once - ubiquitous novel is whose idea it was to style Tom Hanks» hair that way.

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.».

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.

James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams star as the dynamic title duo in a 6 - episode adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's East Texas mystery novels.