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«In Cold Blood» is Truman Capote's novel about the murders in 1959 of farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife and two of their children.
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A Pulitzer prize - winning journalist writes a first novel about a murder of three elderly men in the West Virginia hill country.
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Looking for some really dramatic story in hurry, Eddie overhears Morty talking about a murder novel he is reading... only its true!
Rachel Weisz stars in this adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier «s classic novel about an Englishman (Sam Claflin) who plots the murder of his cousin, only to fall for her charms.
St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) returns to her small Missouri hometown for a story about a murder of a young girl and the disappearance of another only to experience reminders of her past in this eight - part drama based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.
A revered fiction writer, Kozlow (Marton Csokas) has recently written a novel which outlines a similar murder, containing certain details about the slain businessman which were never released to the press.
In this chilling adaptation of the best - selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder.
THE LOWDOWN: Adaptation of James Ellroy's novel about the gruesome 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short that is the most famous unsolved crime in Los Angeles history
Sarah Polley writes and produces an adaption of Margaret Atwood's historical novel about a famous murder case in Canada.
Drama - Jim Carrey commands the screen in this spellbinding thriller about an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a novel.
Kill List (2011) was a dingy one - last - job crime picture that evolved into something wholly unexpected and creepy; Sightseers (2012) is the funniest movie ever made about a murder spree; High - Rise (2015) totally got J.G. Ballard's hermetic banality (even if that concept was never enough to sustain a whole novel in the first place).
Enter the town sheriff (Bruce Dern), whose purchase of a book serves as an opening to collaborate on a novel that he wants to write about the murder of a local girl.
«Queen of the South» is based on the best - selling novel «La Reina Del Sur» about a woman who escapes Mexico following the murder of her drug - dealing boyfriend.
is based on the best - selling novel «La Reina Del Sur» about a woman who escapes Mexico following the murder of her drug - dealing boyfriend.
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.
Dolores Claiborne (Blu - ray) Release date: Nov. 28 Details: 1995, Warner Archive Collection Rated: R, violence, language The lowdown: A spellbinding adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a Maine woman accused of murder and the estranged daughter who returns home to help sort things out.
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.
Sharp Objects is based on Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn's novel about a reporter (Adams) who returns to her small town home to cover a murder.
Next up will be Death On The Nile, which depending on how one feels about Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, is probably Christie's third or fourth most famous novel.
Film adaptation of the acclaimed 2002 novel of the same name by Alice Sebold about a murdered and raped young girl who watches over her friends, family, and her killer from the afterlife.
It was a work of non-fiction that played out like a full - fledged novel, about two convicted killers that brutally murdered a family of four in their home in a small Kansas town.
Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.
Crooked House (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic crime novel of the same name about a private eye (Max Irons) hired by an ex-lover (Stefanie Martini) to investigate the mysterious murder of her wealthy grandfather (Gino Picciano).
Matthew McConaughey sets down his bongos and returns to the world of legally themed film adaptations with «The Lincoln Lawyer,» inspired by the Michael Connelly novel about an attorney whose days of living in the back of his car seem to be over when he picks up a sweet gig defending a wealthy playboy accused of murder — but, of course, nothing is as it seems.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unrated) Action thriller, based on the Stieg Larsson novel, about a computer hacker (Noomi Rapace) who joins forces with a journalist (Michael Nyqvist) to try to crack a sex - trafficking ring, only to end up a fugitive after being accused of murder.
Moore, a 30 - year - old Columbia grad (where he studied religious history), began his screenwriting career with pal Ben Epstein, but first turned heads on his own with his best - selling novel «The Sherlockians,» about a Sherlock Holmes - obsessive trying to solve a real murder, while also investigating Arthur Conan Doyle's face - off against a real - life killer.
In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's film of the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver, a mother confronts the unspeakable fact that her teenage son has committed mass murder.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Brighton Rock (Unrated) Remake of the 1947 crime thriller based on Graham Greene's classic novel about a ruthless hoodlum (Sam Riley) who romances the gullible waitress (Rose Riseborough) scheduled to testify after witnessing him murder a rival mobster (Sean Ellis).
The Lovely Bones finds Peter Jackson regressing into his worst instincts and a newfound squeamishness in a film about, ick, a fourteen - year - old girl's rape and murder, leaving the most unsavoury details of Alice Sebold's revered source novel to the golden - lit imagination.
Based on the novel «The Brisk Foxhole» by the young Richard Brooks and directed by Edward Dmytryk in what many feel was the best period of his career, this is the famous postwar thriller about an anti-Semitic murder and the returning American soldiers mixed up in it.
And about five minutes into a tedious prologue that features a novel's worth of voiceover, blather about a virus that makes people dangerously embrace their emotions, and a sloppy action scene of murder and fucking that included a pair of bare tits disturbingly distorting in slow - motion, I thought only, «Fuck me.»
Sitting on the metal bunk in his jail cell, Tommy flips through the final pages of a «Star Wars» book and then picks up A Time to Kill, a novel about rape and murder in a small Mississippi town.
Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves (1997) is a finely crafted novel about a girl whose affair with an adult suits her purposes until a murder intervenes.
In addition to «putting the finishing touches» on a Room screenplay, she's completed a book of short stories about migration and is working on a novel «about a murder among lowlifes in 1870s San Francisco.
A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it.
His first novel, Child 44, about a series of child murders in Stalinist Russia, appeared in early 2008.
He completed 12 novels during his life, published various poetry collections and left behind an almost completed 1,000 page novel, 2666, about the unsolved murders of 300 women in Mexico over the past 10 years.
In Seattle, he wrote copy for ad agencies, a well - paid freelancer supported by creative directors who liked his (dreadful) first novel, Your Day in the Barrel, published by Atheneum - a book by a writer who wrote well but had nothing to write about, so he wrote a murder mystery.
With my nonfiction hat on, I wrote a book on 19th - century murder and how real - life crimes were used for entertainment purposes: Where today we have films about the Boston strangler or whatever, they had plays and novels and even puppet shows.
Bohjalian's 1997 book about a midwife accused of murder (by performing an emergency c - section) is one of my favorite courtroom novels of recent memory, pitting doctors against midwives and townspeople against one another — all the while raising plenty of ethical dilemmas.
Read our interview with David Morrell for Murder as a Fine Art, where I picked his brain about 19th - century novels, murder as an art form, drug use andMurder as a Fine Art, where I picked his brain about 19th - century novels, murder as an art form, drug use andmurder as an art form, drug use and more.
In The Broken Girls, author Simone St. James has created an intense, genuinely creepy novel that links the ghostly, gothic strands of a 60 - year - old murder with secrets about to be unearthed in the present day.
This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 worNovel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 wornovel of about 74,000 words...
Border Line is about, to borrow a quote from the novel's Amazon page, «[t] he dangers facing U.S. Border Patrol Agents while policing our frontier... brought to life in this story of murder, kidnapping and the footprints that drug trafficking leave on the lives of those brave people locked in the battle to protect us.»
«My last novel was called Fallen Woman, which was about the murder of a prostitute in Denver in 1885,» said Sandra.
Patricia McLinn is the author of about 45 novels, including her ongoing murder mystery series, Caught Dead in Wyoming.
Most pages on EelKat.com are either sample chapters from these Dark Fantasy Yaoi novels or how - to advice and Q&A s about writing Dark Fantasy Bizarro Yaoi, and thus many pages feature mention of suicide, drug use, cutting, depression, BDSM fetishes especially CBT, schizophrenia, ritual murder, and thus many pages are probably NSFW.
Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his most riveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant psychologist - detective to confront his own fallibility.
Joanna: That's what I was about to say: your first novel, «First Blood,» became the Rambo franchise, and your latest novel is «Murder as a Fine Art,» a historical thriller, and today we're also talking about your latest book for writers, «The Successful Novelist,» recently updated.
About the Novel Price's novel is set in the contemporary Lower East Side and, through a murder investigation, exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered Novel Price's novel is set in the contemporary Lower East Side and, through a murder investigation, exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered novel is set in the contemporary Lower East Side and, through a murder investigation, exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past.