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Host Derek Waters and comedian Alison Rich dive into the troubling disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie, with Dunst as Christie and Plemons as the constable who looks into her vanishing act.

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The Marxist - Leninist vision of the future — what Czech novelist Milan Kundera described as «organized forgetting» — is now supplanted by a leader who knows that remembering is redemptive, that human dignity is finally an expression of the inexpressible mystery.

Wong Kar Wai wrote the script alongside best - selling crime mystery novelist Lawrence Block, adding to the uniqueness of the cast and crew that come together for this odd drama.

For those who loved the twisty and twisted narrative of last year's «Gone Girl,» «Dark Places,» also from the mind of novelist Gillian Flynn, just might scratch that itch for mystery.

Guided by astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin, viewers journey to the weirdest places in the cosmos to explore the profound mysteries of these gravitational monsters.

Veiled in mystery, the last the world has heard of Forrester was more than 40 years ago, when he was a brilliant Pulitzer - winning novelist.

The movie was adapted from the best seller of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the New England novelist known for his Boston - based murder mysteries like Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone.

The adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø «s novel by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (of Let the Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy fame) promises to be more than just a typical murder mystery set in a desolate snowscape, which is beginning to become a startlingly popular genre lately.

The film, based on a novel by mystery novelist Karin Fossum won, 10 David di Donatella Awards (Italy's equivalent of the Oscar), including Best Film and Best Actor (Toni Servillo).

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Of the remaining 9, though, there is only one first novelist, Alice LaPlante, who garners the treasured Mystery Showcase daily double by landing on both our top 10 and best crime - fiction debut lists.

Molesworth rescues Harlem Renaissance poet and novelist Countée Cullen from obscurity in this scrupulous and vivid biography, celebrating his work and pondering the mysteries of his life.

In this compact and delightful murder mystery, New York Times bestselling suspense novelist Nelson DeMille returns to one of his most beloved characters — the hard - boiled NYPD Detective John Corey.

Most people know Emma Donoghue (no relation, unless you go way back to the roots buried in the bog) as the author of Room, but she has been a prolific novelist and writer of short stories, mysteries, literary history and much more.

So much mystery surrounds the life of once - celebrated Ojibwe and African Haitian sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1844 — 1907), it's a wonder novelist Atkins managed to piece together a cohesive narrative, much less such a splendid one.

James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as «America's best novelist,» «the Graham Greene of the bayou,» and «a poet of the mystery novel,» returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke a consistent New York Times best - selling author.

For both a therapist and a crime novelist, it's the mystery of character itself that intrigues, puzzles and continually surprises.

I'm now getting into my stride as a novelist, and am a quarter of the way into the second of a series of cosy mystery novels that will be published next year, the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries.

One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her Tess Monaghan p.i. series and her New York Times bestselling standalone novels (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, I'd Know You Anywhere, etc.).

Any writer, from the multi-bestselling novelist to the scratcher of sixth grade book reports, can share the frustration of losing pages of valuable work to the mystery chasm inside the universe of a computer.

As a novelist, he is perhaps best known for his Burke series of mysteries.

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough Readers on both sides of the Atlantic are buzzing about Behind Her Eyes, BBC writer and novelist Sarah Pinborough's love - triangle mystery with a mind - blowing twist that you definitely won't see coming.

Now she keeps involved in collection development and readers» advisory (her two loves) by reviewing for Reference Books Bulletin, writing reviews and articles on mysteries for NoveList, working as a consultant for publishers on marketing to libraries, and working on the Executive Board of the Adult Reading Round Table.

Linda Castillo's Kate Burkholder series Former romance novelist Castillo's debut mystery, Sworn to Silence (2009), transported readers to Amish country, where Chief of Police Burkholder — a lapsed Amish woman — dredges up old secrets and solves a string of grisly murders.

As an avid mystery reader, you undoubtedly know there are countless wonderful women crime novelists, most of whom have equal male - female audiences.

MYSTERY OF THE MONTH South African novelist Malla Nunn is back with the second book in her Emmanuel Cooper series, Let the Dead Lie, set in 1950s Durban.

In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

Mystery novelist Donna Leon continues the long tradition of foreigners writing about Venice.

Award - winning novelist Frédérique Molay, author of the Paris Homicide mystery series, discusses the challenges of rewriting at the blog Mystery Fmystery series, discusses the challenges of rewriting at the blog Mystery FMystery Fanfare.

«The greatest mystery of all is the human heart, and that is the mystery with which all good novelists are concerned.»

dark horse Mario Vargas Llosa, a 74 - year - old Peruvian novelist whose work runs the gamut from plays to literary fiction to essays to mysteries (our Whodunit columnist, Bruce Tierney, reviewed his 2001 thriller The Feast of the Goat).

Today Ruth brings us a great pep talk from screenwriter and mystery novelist Michael Brandman, who this year was asked to take over the Jesse Stone novels of the legendary mystery writer, the late Robert B. Parker.

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The Black Cat Knocks on Wood A Bad Luck Cat Mystery, Book # 2 By Kay Finch ISBN 9780425275252 Author's website: http://www.kayfinch.com/ Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: The author of Black Cat Crossing is back as mystery novelist Sabrina Tate and her cat Hitchcock find themselves roped... Continue reMystery, Book # 2 By Kay Finch ISBN 9780425275252 Author's website: http://www.kayfinch.com/ Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: The author of Black Cat Crossing is back as mystery novelist Sabrina Tate and her cat Hitchcock find themselves roped... Continue remystery novelist Sabrina Tate and her cat Hitchcock find themselves roped... Continue reading →

The group has doled out awards to crime and mystery novelists since 1946, but few writers collect multiple awards in major categories during the course of their careers.

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Being at the death's door, a mystery novelist Adora Graves was obsessed of finishing her last detective story, The Rite of Resurrection.

As novelist David Lodge observes about the satisfactions provided by solved mystery stories in both fiction and in law: «A solved mystery is ultimately reassuring to readers, asserting the triumph of reason over instinct, of order over anarchy.»

Indeed, the entire narrative arc of our constitutional law saga is full of surprise, mystery and plot reversals worthy of a great novelist.