Sentences with phrase «mystery writer in»

From the mind of the man GQ has called «the best mystery writer in the world,» The Closers is a masterpiece of thriller writing that is as sharp and immediate as the greatest fiction.

Putting «Fifty Shades» and your unnamed mystery writer in a separate store than indie titles wouldn't have changed that.

With deadpan humor and skeptical eye, the determined detective is on the case, and everyone who has the misfortune to be connected to Parker is a suspect — the failing mystery writer in town to sign books; the beautiful young wife, and the bookstore employee who appears to be more nervous than aggrieved.

As a member of the mystery writers group Sister in Crime (SinC, for short), I receive a monthly email update called Sinc Links, a kind of round - up of things that affect the publishing and writing world in general, and mystery writers in particular.

The Mystery Writers of America, along with editor Brad Meltzer, have brought together 21 original stories from 21 contemporary mystery writers in The Mystery Box.

Mid-Atlantic About Blog A crime fiction blog with news, tips, interviews, book and author profiles, and over 3,000 links chosen with both mystery readers and mystery writers in mind.

Not exact matches

Laura Winter is a freelance writer from Market Force, one of the leading mystery shopping providers in Spain and across Europe.

Todd Van Luling — Huffington Post: Promoted to Senior Staff Writer in October 2015, Van Luling writes «all about pop culture mysteries,» according to his Tumblr.

He is an elegant and efficient writer and sets lovely scenes and characters, creating a murder mystery with twists and engaging characters,» wrote Samantha Power in Vue Weekly.

I was in line at the local dry cleaners once and realized that I was sandwiched between two bestselling mystery writers, Nevada Barr and Terri Blackstock; between the three of us, we had sold something like 10.001 million books.

Russell Kirk, a mystery writer and «Bohemian Tory man of letters,» in one variation of his «canons of conservatism»:

Catholic priest and writer Henri Nouwen names this new opportunity well: «I am also getting in touch with the mystery that leadership, for a large part, means to be led.»

In one of her previous mysteries, A Fountain Filled with Blood, she succeeded at a feat that's been the ruin of many lesser writers, plunging headfirst into a current social issue (homophobia) without being swept away by it.

I have found that to be really true with my experience as a writer — that even going into a project like Moxie, which had a pretty decent structure already, there is an element of mystery in every writing project where sometimes the process of writing leads my thoughts and my heart and my soul into territory that I didn't plan for.

One of the epigraphs in Paul Mariani's book is from Flannery O'Connor:»... if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself.

In place of knowledge of future mysteries, the writer invites readers to participate in the present mystery of growing up «to the measure of the full stature of Christ» (4:13In place of knowledge of future mysteries, the writer invites readers to participate in the present mystery of growing up «to the measure of the full stature of Christ» (4:13in the present mystery of growing up «to the measure of the full stature of Christ» (4:13).

The writer of Ephesians uses the language of courtship and marriage to convey the passion and mystery of Christ's union with the church.12 Yet anticipation of full union with Christ does not deny the reality of inevitable daily conflict between the «old» and the «new» in the life of believers.

Paul likens the love between a man and a woman to the mystery of Christ's love for the Church, the writer of Proverbs to the inscrutable way of an eagle in the sky.

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 a science writer I deal in fact, but in my off hours, I grapple with mystery, and the Higgs is a potent one.

I'm not quite ready to assign Robert Galbraith / JK Rowling to the ranks of my fave mystery writers, but only because I want to read the other books in the Cormoran Strike series and see how things pan out.

In Dark Places, writer / director Gilles Paquet - Brenner has gotten the first part right (kind of) but totally bungled the second, resulting in a boring, soulless, paint - by - numbers mystery that never clicks or finds its footinIn Dark Places, writer / director Gilles Paquet - Brenner has gotten the first part right (kind of) but totally bungled the second, resulting in a boring, soulless, paint - by - numbers mystery that never clicks or finds its footinin a boring, soulless, paint - by - numbers mystery that never clicks or finds its footing.

While there's now a lot of answers, the writers are pushing on the mystery of «Croatan», which by the quick search on Google reveal is a Native American tribe that may or may not have been in alliance with the Roanokans.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.

In Three Billboards, plot twists are equated with the mysteries of human impulse, accounting for the fact that a person's life can change in an instant and it doesn't have to feel like a clever - clever writer casually nudging chess pieces around a boarIn Three Billboards, plot twists are equated with the mysteries of human impulse, accounting for the fact that a person's life can change in an instant and it doesn't have to feel like a clever - clever writer casually nudging chess pieces around a boarin an instant and it doesn't have to feel like a clever - clever writer casually nudging chess pieces around a board.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

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.

In real life, Winslet's character grew up to be mystery writer Anne Perry.

Sure it has one of the most amazing casts assembled in recent years (Branagh, Cruz, Depp, Dafoe, Dench, Gad, Pfeiffer and Ridley) and a lush production, but ultimately the story gets bogged down as a mystery, as it is arrogantly solved by writer / director / star Kenneth Branagh.

Rabin states that the MPDG is «that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

Movies, best seen in a big dark room full of strangers, are uniquely suited for creating and sustaining a sense of captivating mystery, and few films have done it better this year than Midnight Special, the latest from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud).

The page - to - screen journey of a modern sci - fi classic, in the words of the writer that helped unpack an unsolvable mystery.

Yet it also goes deeper: as in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to like a writer to appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave in peace.

The Coen Brothers are directors / writers that have proven to be atop their craft in most circles with their trademark humor and mystery style story telling and this looks no different as they assemble an all star cast for their latest, Hail, Caesar!

The film sets true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) in the house of a murdered family where he begins to unravel the mystery surround their deaths and other related murders.

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

In his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase «Manic Pixie Dream Girl» to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that «exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.&raquIn his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase «Manic Pixie Dream Girl» to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that «exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.&raquin the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

A quiet rural town in the English countryside includes among it's inhabitants Nicholas, an author famous for his murder mystery series who, with his long - suffering wife, open their house to other writers as an idyllic retreat.

The macabre writer is pitted against a serial killer who utilises the inventive murder methods described in Poe's mystery stories.

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.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

Akerman is currently in negotiations to join this hard - boiled crime iteration of mystery writer Agatha Christie's «Ten Little Indians,» with the film set to follow the tale of an elite DEA task force who rob an underground drug cartel while operating under the guise of a warranted raid.

The central mystery of Winter Soldier's identity would be known to any modern Marvel comic fan worth his or her salt, so the writers make the smart decision to make that conflict more of a B plot in the overall tapestry of the proceedings.

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.

As lush and atmospheric a film as the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's heart.

Also New This Week Murder on the Orient Express Mystery writer Agatha Christie's most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, is on the big screen again in director Kenneth Branagh's (who also plays Poirot) «Murder on the Orient Express.»

«The Madness, Misery, and Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe» (9:50) focuses on the real author, with biographical remarks from Poe museum curator Chris Semtner and St. Christopher's School writer in residence Ron Smith complemented by old photographs and documents, abundant clips from the film, and brief remarks from the screenwriters.

Well, he has delivered us a gem with «Broken Embraces,» which is a mystery set in the world of filmmaking — sort of — with a blind writer / director, Mateo (Lluís Homar), leading a double life, brought face to face with his past and Lena (Cruz), a woman he and his producer fell in love with on a past production.

Arnold Schwarzenegger gets savage in the trailer for «Sabotage», a DEA task force mystery / thriller from co - writer / director David Ayer (End of Watch).