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A boxed set of four supernatural, suspense, and mystery novels from an international bestselling author.
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Or they're reading obscure pulp fiction and mystery novels from the 1920s whose copyright had expired.
12 cozy mystery novels from best - selling authors to get your blood racing on a cold winter's eve.
The whole series is a must - read for fans of historical mystery novels from authors like Agatha Christie.
The rest of the story feels like a good, sometimes far - fetched, mystery novel from the likes of James Patterson, Lee Child, or Vince Flynn.
Not exact matches
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.»
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.
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.
Unlike authors of best - selling novels, when Mother Nature writes a mystery, she often keeps us from finding the whole answer.
That Stanley Kubrick colossus, you may recall, was drawn from an Arthur C. Clarke novel that later spawned several sequels, the implications of which scarcely diminished the movie's looming sense of mystery.
entry into the Danganronpa Visual Novel series for the Sony platforms, D3 not only has shown the type of growth that i've come to expect from this series, but arguably sets the standard for all other Visual mystery novels going forward.
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.
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.
Yet parts of this idea are competently cribbed from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a mystery novel I loved as a kid (three stars).
Still, it holds up as a fascinating look at 1950s culture, from pulp mystery novels to Cold War nuclear fears.
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.
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.
It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.
The third - person shooter differs greatly from the original games, which are visual novels centered around murder mysteries.
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.
Operating much like H.G. Wells» three - time adapted novel «The Island of Dr. Moreau», this twisted import from Anders Thomas Jensen tangles elements of slapstick physical comedy among chilling social horrors to create a psychosexual mystery circling the inescapable ideas of heritage and homecoming.
The mystery useselements from many of Hammett's real - life novels, and true fans will beable to spot them, but the film is sure - footed and gloriously moody inits own right.
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.
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?
«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.
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.
Is this adaptation from the Gillian Flynn novel as chilling and unpredictable as Gone Girl, or is it a mystery not worth solving?
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She also represents a range of women's fiction, from literary to upmarket commercial, to romance, as well as crime fiction (mysteries, thrillers), and the occasional literary or commercial novel not aimed at a female market.
Galloway weaves many known facts and real people from Houdini's life into his novel, bringing to life historical facts and anecdotes whilst constructing his mystery.
May brings a new Sookie Stackhouse mystery from Charlaine Harris; June, the anticipated vampire / apocalyptic novel The Passage by Justin Cronin (see an earlier post on Cronin here)... shall I go on?
There's a wide range of genres in this year's best first novels, from fantasy and mystery to social realism, and many new writers open up the old formulas and break boundaries in form and subject.
You will be spoiled for choice from the more than 1 million free ebooks available in 8 subjects including biographies, mystery novels, romance and religion.
From names and occupations to crimes and traits, our generator will give you all the basics needed to start your very own mystery novel!
In fiction, she represents a range of women's fiction, from literary to romance, including mystery, and romantic suspense, and the occasional novel not aimed at chicks.
Carolyn McCray, a writer of paranormal romance novels, historical thrillers and mysteries, earned $ 8,250 from the KDP Select fund in December.
Tintin, the plucky little reporter who spent more time investigating mysteries and running away from bad guys than doing any actual reporting, has made it to the small screen: Idboox reports that Moulinsart, the company that controls the rights to the works of Herge, Tintin's creator, has released an iPad app that contains all 24 of the Tintin graphic novels.
The Murder Room is a powerful work of mystery and psychological intricacy from a master of the modern novel.
Comic caper novels, psychological thrillers, and history - mystery blends dominate the best crime fiction reviewed in Booklist from May 1, 2015, through April 15, 2016.
While this new novel solves some of Dune's most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad «Dib Atreides will walk.
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce This middle grade novel unpacks the mystery of two young boys who immigrated from Mongolia to London.
The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense.
Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth - century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an amazing historical novel that has it all — mystery, romance, adventure, betrayal and scenes with so much intensity, complexity and historical detail that you'll wonder if Mitchell was reincarnated from an earlier life.
This month's best new mysteries include a Hollywood heist gone awry, an adrenaline - fueled novel from Matthew Quirk, a postwar case featuring Bernie Gunther and a gritty look at the Los Angeles drug rings.