Sentences with phrase «of thriller»

I'm now more of a thriller writer and I didn't want people to associate Everett Powers with horror.

Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide.

But if you can stick with the overt and implied brutality of The Killing Lessons this is, indeed, one hell of a thriller.

Described as a toxic shock of a thriller, this bijou slice of American noir, delivers a real punch to the reader, and I was mightily impressed how much well defined characterisation, and breadth of action, Ames crams into such a minimal page count.

35 % of thriller enthusiasts prefer to do some investigating before they commit, and preview a book before they purchase it

«Smoke is an addictive combination of thriller, fantasy, and historical novel, with a dash of horror.

Written with the pace and thrust of a thriller, this is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.

A gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an «electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller.»

This series of five books, plus two bonus books to readers who pay seven dollars or more, is a grouping of thriller titles under the name «The Second Degree Bundle.»

Lee Child is best known for his Jack Reacher series of thriller books; «Worth Dying For,» «61 Hours,» «Gone Tomorrow,» «Nothing to Lose,» «Bad Luck and Trouble» and «The Hard Way.»

This unrelentingly paced mix of thriller and straight - up horror (watch for friction burns on your page - turning finger) blends the cinematic delights of tough - guy noir with such smart - mouthed gore fests as Reanimator and Army of Darkness, seasoned by soupçons of Gaimanian romanticism and Koontzian sentiment.

Andrew Gross is an American author of thriller novels.

Here's the set - up for Lisa M. Lilly's The Awakening, just $ 3.99 on Kindle or Currently Free Via the Kindle Lending Library: THE AWAKENING — a «gem of a thriller with a huge concept that rivals Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code....»

This boxset was released in March of last year by The Twelve, a consortium of thriller authors who joined their marketing and promotion efforts and managed to sell over 100,000 copies in the first six weeks, hitting both NYT and USA Today bestsellers lists.

Read here about Joanna Penn's experiences with choosing a cover for the German translation of her thriller.

James Scott Bell is the best - selling and award - winning author of thriller novels, zombie legals, historical romance, and lots and lots of books on the craft of writing.

A sample of her thriller Instrument of the Devil is online until July 7.

Strong supporting characters, uniformly solid writing, occasionally too macho, but with enough heart to back it up, this was the sort of thriller that actually thrills.

Since I am a fan of mysteries, a fan of Mr. Koryta, and a northeast Ohioan, I was excited to get my hands on a copy of this thriller.

- The Observer «A rum beast that uses the cosy familiarity of the thriller form to buttress a fantastical supernatural plot... As fans of his Berlin - set Bernie Gunther novels will know, Kerr is a details man.

It was well written as a piece of literature, more than a thriller, yet had the components of a thriller.

The Library at Mount Char is also a very violent story, with the gore of a horror flick and the pace of a thriller.

British actor Crossley brings superior skill and diversity to his reading of this thriller, in which an automobile accident in Scotland sets off a road - rage incident, drawing four characters into the fray.

His books are designed to please those wanting a mixture of thriller and romance.

If you are a fan of the thriller genre, my books will be like dessert, fast and delicious.

Joanna Penn is the author of thriller novels Pentecost and Prophecy.

Lovers of thriller and mystery novels can now access all eight installments of the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace story in e-book format in the United States, making it easier than ever to dive in to this thrilling series.

Stephanie Chase, Library Director of Hillsboro (OR) Library said, «Awesome combination of thriller, science fiction, and speculative alternate - history style fiction.

Tess Gerritsen is a master of the thriller novel.

Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller.

Within the intersecting circles of thriller, medical drama and popular fiction, Carol Casse

And Sedgewick's book is at least as much of a thriller and a fast - paced mystery as it is a book about a visually impaired teen.

Sitting uneasily at the junction of thriller, mystery, horror, and literary fiction, Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl presents a world so closed off and self - contained it leaves no room for slow reveals or plot twists.

Combining the page - turning plot of a thriller with memorable characters, fascinating moral dilemmas and the painstakingly precise prose that Patchett is known for, State of Wonder is a novel that people will still be reading — and talking about — years from now.

Written with the taut urgency of a thriller, Danielle Trussoni's memoir of the disintegration of her marriage is...

Akuma No Riddle is a bit of a thriller with yuri leanings, while Certain Scientific Accelerator is another spin - off from the Certain Magical Index light novel series, and fits in with their popular Certain Scientific Railgun series.

After the eternal - youth drama The Age Of Adaline, Lively now stars in All I See Is You, a nebulously classifiable sort - of thriller - drama from director - cowriter Marc Forster.

«It's a period drama but it's kind of a thriller,» she told Ryan Tubridy.

With a blackmailing rape DVD, L - word steaminess, a «Star Wars» - ish twist, and plenty of lurid Ingmar Bergman atmosphere, «The Girl Who Played with Fire» smolders as a propulsively gripping firecracker of a thriller that'll satiate the appetite of Lisbeth fans in any country.

The movie has the minimal structure and trappings of a thriller, but it requires a different kind of engagement from the viewer; there's a different kind of contract being made with the viewer in this movie than in the traditional genre movie.

Oddly enough, instead of lifting up the lesser scenes, it just goes to show how problematic those actually are in this Jason Blum production (it's not a traditional Blumhouse horror picture though... much more of a thriller than anything else).

What some of us oldsters understood is that smartphones have rendered the classical who - knows - what - and - when - do - they - know - it construction of thriller plots inoperable.

Taylor may just be unfamiliar with the mechanics of the thriller genre, having directed the U.S. Civil Rights drama The Help (2011) and the James Brown biopic Get on Up (2014).

«Green Room» isn't a perfect film, but it's an exceptionally memorable one, a shock - rock bullet train of a thriller that's likely to grow in esteem even faster than «Blue Ruin» has.

A great deal of this thriller from actor / writer / director Joel Edgerton works, sometimes impeccably so, but a combination of plot holes and a slight aimlessness do weigh it down.

First Reformed A conflicted reverend (a superb Ethan Hawke) undergoes a profound crisis of faith in Paul Schrader's soul - searching, career - resurrecting drama, a tribute to the contemplative cinema of Robert Bresson and Yasujiro Ozu that nonetheless moves to the pulse of a thriller.

CASTINGS Stephen Rea, Colm Feore, and Zawe Ashton have joined the previously announced cast of the thriller «The Widow,» opposite Isabelle Huppert, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Maika -LSB-...]

And so, right in the set - up of this thriller / horror / monster movie that the most frightening, tense, and unsafe situation for a woman to be in is trapped with men.

One film that has poked through this listless drought is Match Point, a flick that saw Allen test the waters of the thriller genre, and most importantly, play homage to the godfather of suspense himself.

Evidently this is because the artful Halloween works on the «intended» level of a thriller.