Sentences with phrase «than a crime novel»

He adores both Kafka and Kerouac and had an urge to write something completely different than crime novels.

Not exact matches

Early versions of ransomware have lurked for more than a decade, but the latest ones are increasingly sophisticated, as are the cyber crime gangs that assiduously update their malignant programs and find novel ways to elude cybersecurity experts and law enforcement.

I'd become a writer of crime novels and thrillers and I was more interested in books than in football.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

The first trailer for Dark Places, an adaptation for Gillian Flynn's second novel — she didn't write the screenplay for this one, though — was released yesterday and it looks much darker and more true crime - y than Gone Girl.

The tangled, darkly comic plotting might smack of an assortment of crime movies from around the world, but the visual style has a distinctive character, closer to the static panels, crisp lines, and muted colors of modern graphic novels than to traditional animation.

He would seem to be much more at home as the main crony of James Bond than as anything one could remotely find in a tale about the scariness of a ring of online predators, and his plot, which would necessitate the world's most inept law enforcement to pull off (and we have that here), feels like something borne out of a trashy crime novel.

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 list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

by Walter Chaw It's probably not at all surprising that lock - step director Gary Fleder's Don't Say a Word, based on a by - the - numbers novel by fiction hack Andrew Klavan (True Crime), has less original material than Michael Jackson.

I touch on control issues, the joys of colonoscopies, and get to an overdue reading from my crime novel Higher Than Jesus.

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Of course, the focus is more on solving crimes than the nuts and bolts of writing (probably a good thing as far as entertainment value goes) but it's seeing a writer on TV that is, well, novel.

Completely devoid of supernatural story line (which I realize is not a requirement for a King novel, but it certainly does make it amazing), King's approach to crime fiction is more about a deranged mass murderer than any kind of horror plot.

I've been out of the biz for more than a decade (now I write crime novels), but I assume the industry has the same problem.

The variations on this theme are infinite, but it's often more than a little difficult to decide what's simply a suspenseful vampire novel and what's a true genre blend involving vampires and crime fiction.

More than a decade after winning the 1992 Best First Novel Edgar for Slow Motion Riot, Peter Blauner has returned from writing scripts for television to spin another noir crime fiction steeped in moral relativism and driven by a flawed, but empathetic, protagonist.

Bloodhound Books represents more than 70 authors and sells 1 million books a year, with a focus on discovering new crime thriller authors and publishing their novels within the digital sphere.

Unlike more straightforward historical mysteries (Lindsay Davis, et al.), the literary / historical thriller is only loosely tied to the crime that drives the surface action; the focus of the novel is likely to be internal rather than external, with the crime serving as a catalyst to thought, rather than thought providing a solution to the crime.

Find out what happens next as we come close to the end of the reading of the crime novel, Bigger Than Jesus by Robert Chazz Chute.

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- Booklist «Olshan (The Conversion), known for his literary fiction, delivers a crime novel more likely to satisfy mainstream than genre readers.»

Fortunately, many of them are very good indeed, which is why this year's compilation of our best crime novels and best crime debuts contains more than its share.

Do you think that Olly is the most egregious of thieves, or are there worse crimes than his committed in the novel?

We found that a crime novel by a man was seven times more likely to be reviewed than one by a woman, and that women's careers were derailed by this fact.

; the characters are engaging and well - written, especially Henrietta the pot - bellied pet pig; and the prose is much more literary than the run - of - the - mill crime novel — although, as is often my complaint when reading contemporary fiction, I don't see the need for the vulgar language.

Crime novelist JA Konrath has been very public about how much more money he earns on his self - published Kindle novels than he does on those released by his publishers, and Stephen R. Covey (the Seven Habits guy) has recently announced his plans to self - publish in 2010.

Continuing its year - long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion, the university welcomes the author of more than 40 books ranging from crime novels to political essays.

Nielsen Bookscan data at the London book fair has revealed that crime novels in 2017, for the first time since Nielsen's records began, sold more than the category rather vaguely labelled «general and literary fiction».

Jonathan Kellerman is the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than three dozen bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher's Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives.

He is a prolific writer of more than 40 books — ranging from crime novels to literary fiction — and is widely recognized for his Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins detective series based in Watts, which includes the first book in the series «Devil in the Blue Dress,» as well as «Little Scarlet.»

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