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If you're looking for a mystery novel with wit, heart and class, get to know the books of Donna Leon.»
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I can understand why people are often confused about this, but consider the readers point of view; if they select a mystery novel with an image of the protagonist on the cover there is no room for their own creativity or imagination, as the story has already been illustrated for them.
Imagine you've written a mystery novel with strong romantic overtones.
Larger and deeper in scope, Publishers Weekly wrote of L. A. Requiem, «Crais has stretched himself the way another Southern California writer — Ross Macdonald — always tried to do, to write a mystery novel with a solid literary base.»
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareThe other day, I received this email: Dear Writer Beware, A couple of years ago, I published my mystery novel with [insert name of well - known deadbeat publisher here].
This is a great one for that terrific beach read — the biography of that Olympic - medalist athlete, or the mystery novel with just a touch of decadent smut!
We also have: Lisa Silverthorne's Isabel's Tears, a novel about a magical inn; Dayle A. Dermatis» Waking the Witch, a gothic mystery novel with some paranormal elements and a light romance; Kelly Washington's The Pale Waters, the first novella in a four - part epic journey; Erica Lyon's Hot Waters, a steamy sea adventure novel; and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The War and After, five historical fantasy stories of magic and revenge.
Bill Clinton is going to be co-writing a mystery novel with James Patterson.
Not exact matches
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.
- 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
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.
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.
This is a science book that reads like a mystery novel, with vividly drawn characters (both human and odoriferous) and chemical clues (the formation of mercury droplets, the olfactory illusion of caraway).
Instead they prefer men of mystery, with 19 % picking thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read, so any men palming through one of Benjamin Black's crime fiction novels (real name John Banville, he uses Black as a pseudonym - it just adds to his mystery!)
A young girl who aspires to write mystery novels, along with her friend, attempt to find a missing girl.
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.
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.
With The Hippopotamus set to receive its North American premiere this weekend at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the first poster and trailer have arrived online for director John Jencks» upcoming adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1994 best - selling comedy novel of the same name; take a look below... A country manor mystery that's actually a deliciously -LSB-...]
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.
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 success of Gillian Flynn's mystery novel Gone Girl, filmed with Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck, has now given us this middling screen adaptation of her cold - case thriller Dark Places.
The first, «A Military Mystery», is an interview with gracious subject Joe Finder, author of the novel upon which the film is based.
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.
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.
After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.
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.
Whether you've read the novel or simply are familiar with mystery as a genre, you just know that there's a big twist around the corner.
Alternately humorous and grotesque — and always surreal — the film mingles aspects of Burroughs's novel with incidents from the writer's own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self - reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.
William Giraldi's novel of the same name tells the story of an Alaska murder mystery blended with wolf survival story.
A version of this archives appears in print on May 30, 1963, on Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: The Screen: «Dr. No,» Mystery Spoof; Film Is First Made of Ian Fleming Novels Sean Connery Stars as Agent James Bond.
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!»
The characters are good, no question it's a nice mystery and a good script of Franklin's adaptation of Mosley's novel, but the story is also a bit difficult to follow, and if you can't keep up with all the characters you'll end up not knowing or caring what happens for the last half of the film.
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?
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 beloWith 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 belowith 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-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-with Branagh, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Leslie Odom Jr., Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Penelope Cruz; take a -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 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.
When she's not writing about film and the industry, she's drinking coffee, reading mystery novels or hanging out with her husband and stinking - cute puppy.
Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock begins with a tantalizing note, a mystery within the mystery of the book itself: «Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves.
Not only do you have millions of fans that will demand the film be faithful, but with «The Da Vinci Code» you also have a mystery novel so meticulous and focussed that it leaves very little room for interpretation.
Later, in seeming apposition, I learned that he wrote mystery and detective novels under a pseudonym with a life - long friend, Wendell Taylor, the head of the school's science department.
He is the author of The Dead Times, a mystery novel, and co-author with Nick Pron of Crime Story and author of ORNGE: The Star Investigation That Broke the Story.
Forty years later, when I reached a point where I was writing novels, this subject seemed a natural, particularly considering all of the mystery associated with the third secret.
Starring an antihero detective with no fixed identity, Hobbs» debut thriller is «what the mystery novel would look like if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had decided that Moriarty was his central character.»
Set in Britain just after World War II, the novel stars Flavia de Luce, a fiercely intelligent 11 - year - old with a talent for chemistry and a nose for mystery.
Readers of Oke's previous books, which include the best - selling Love Comes Softly series, will find much to enjoy in this new novel, filled with her familiar balance of just the right amount of romance and mystery.
This suspenseful novel follows a forensic artist as she uncovers a 100 - year - old mystery with present - day repercussions.