Woman's Day

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Make some room in your viewing schedule for another NCIS spin-off. Vanessa Lachey stars as Jane Tennant, the first female special agent in the top job at the Pearl Harbor Field Office. The single mum has overcome barriers at every turn as she’s risen

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Woman's Day

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One of the hotel’s most notorious visitors was Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia” after her gruesome death in 1947. She was reportedly seen at the hotel’s bar in the days before her murder, which remains unsolved. Her mutilat

New Zealand Listener

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Massachusetts author Peter Swanson has a bibliography packed with fiendish twists, strong characters and clear nods to past crime greats such as Patricia Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock. In his latest novel, RULES FOR PERFECT MURDERS (Faber & Faber, $

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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This is the third novel from Sydneysider Tania Blanchard inspired by her German grandmother’s tales, and we start in Australia in 2019 with a letter from Berlin. It’s about a deceased estate and its recipient is the biological daughter of the letter

Writing Magazine

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Write to: Letters to the editor, Writing Magazine, Warners Group Publications plc, 5th Floor, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 5JD; email: letters@writersnews.co.uk. (Include your name and address when emailing letters. Ensure all letters, a maximum of 250

The Rake

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We at The Rake have always had a soft spot for Plein Soleil, the 1960 French film by René Clément that starred a mesmerising young Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, in the first (and arguably best) cinematic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel

Writer's Digest

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“It can be lonely. … And there have been times when I’ve retreated to my hotel room, emotionally exhausted from being visibly invisible all day.” That’s a line from Rachel Howzell Hall’s 2015 essay, “Colored and Invisible”—the inspiration for this ar

Writing Magazine

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The Book Folks has operated as an independent publisher of crime, mystery and thriller fiction since 2013. ‘We mostly publish British crime fiction,’ said publisher Erik Empson. ‘We especially like murder mystery series with a good sense of place, me

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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One of the hotel’s most notorious visitors was Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia” after her gruesome death in 1947. She was reportedly seen at the hotel’s bar in the days before her murder, which remains unsolved. Her mutilat

The Australian Women's Weekly

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This is the third novel from Sydneysider Tania Blanchard inspired by her German grandmother’s tales, and we start in Australia in 2019 with a letter from Berlin. It’s about a deceased estate and its recipient is the biological daughter of the letter

New Zealand Listener

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It’s a moment that would bring smiles to most: families roaming the beach, sun high in the sky, an old man helping a delighted young girl put seashells on the walls of their sandcastle. But for Charlie Deravin, “paedophile” springs to mind before “lo

The Atlantic

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Many thrillers trace a strange or catastrophic event back to its surprising source. But what catalysts lead to those stories being written in the first place? Walter Mosley’s mystery-writing career was set off by a single simile from an older giant o

TIME

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TWO MYSTERIES ARE AT THE HEART of Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four: the 14-year-old cold case of a young girl’s murder and the recent disappearance of protagonist Yoshinobu Mikami’s teenage daughter. Yet most of the suspense in this thriller has to do with

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She is an Aucklander who has had international success with her paranormal romances, including the Psy-Changeling series. This is her first crime novel. I wanted to write a murder mystery because… “I was inspired by the West Coast and its stark, stun

PLAY

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 12 MAY PUB SQUARE ENIX / DEV HAND INC. PLAYERS 1 If the words ‘live-action game’ and ‘Square Enix’ make you think of the The Quiet Man, know that the publisher has been involved with FMV games much longer, and much more successf

Little White Lies

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Blu-ray/DVD Released 17 MAY You can smell the fuggy vapours emanating from Richard Burton as the morally conflicted/emotionally detached spymaster Alec Leamas in Martin Ritt’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, still one of the great screen adaptaion

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Chicago Tribune

4 min read

"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Writing Magazine

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HEAD SHOT New indie Head Shot Press is dedicated to crime fiction. They are open for submissions of ‘crime novels that are predominantly neo-noir or hard-boiled’. Don’t send ‘murder mysteries, cosy mysteries, or crimes are solved by cats’. Query firs

The Atlantic

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Works that critique police brutality, racism, and our obsession with true crime: Your weekly guide to the best in books

Writing Magazine

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With no better provenance than the coming together of the writer of an awarding winning thriller series and a TV writer/producer who is also a bestselling author it was Joel Goldman and Lee Goldberg’s shared passion for crime novels that inspired the

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Literary Hub

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I once tried to write a crime novel—a gritty noir that I hoped would be fast, pulpy, and fun. But I had trouble making all the pieces come together, and each revision seemed to add complications without solving any of the story’s problems. After five

Woman & Home

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Hare’s bestselling debut novel This Lovely City, set in the aftermath of the Second World War, was a touching love story and enthralling mystery. Her new book,  Miss Aldridge Regrets, is another compelling historical murder mystery set aboard the Que

Chicago Tribune

4 min read

"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Chicago Tribune

4 min read

"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu

Woman's Day

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The latest star-studded adaptation of an Agatha Christie murder mystery sees Kenneth Branagh return as Hercule Poirot alongside Gal Gadot, Russell Brand, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, to name a few. When someone is killed onboard a luxury river

The Atlantic

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Why literary novels about wrenching events are taking more and more cues from crime writing

Chicago Tribune

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"Knives Out," one of the more interesting and entertaining movies of 2019, attempts something that has never really been done before: adapting the classic murder mystery, an inherently conservative genre, to modern progressive discourse rebuking casu