Once again, their histories attracting the writer, and ultimately the reader, more than the crime itself.Article content The trend won’t be dissipating anytime soon, because we’ll always have criminals to root against and the innocent to root for. Take, for example, Canad...
not only intelligent in their own right, but extremely familiar with all the tropes and tricks a mystery writer might think to pull. So in the interest
When he was 8 years old, his father gave him a novel written by early 20th-century Italian writer Emilio Salgari, which aroused (激起) his passion(热情) for writing. “I dream of winning an international prize. I’m sure I can realize my dream as long as I go on with it,”he ...
if they go to trial. Being inside a courtroom and seeing what the jury sees, and hearing how the judges and attorneys conduct the trial, is invaluable experience for giving one's work the ring of authenticity. It can also help a writer sharpen and improve his or her basic writing skills...
According tohis website, ‘Harlan was the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write fiction for the New York Times op-ed page.’ Our next writer is a master of mystery novels and thrillers. Harlan Coben has sold in excess of 80 million books and is the author of the...
But then my friend, writer Jen Cowan Parsons, mentioned she’d entered a few contests. I had no idea that there were contests for unpublished works. Well, I knew of one, but they didn’t have a horror genre entry, and while you could conceivably call it a thriller and/or mystery, th...
Not only have I been trying to discover why I got writer’s block in the first place, but I’ve also discovered how I got out of it. So now I don’t write every single day, and I do still have to make myself write some days. But other days—they’re becoming more frequent—I...
doesn’t know where to turn. Eventually, the wife is charged with murder. Sam is appointed to represent her and can’t figure out where she’s lying and where she’s telling the truth. Sam must hyper-focus on the case at hand—not his struggles—to get to the bottom of the mystery...
” Mohammed bin Salman, famously a fan of the army-building strategy gameAge of Empires, is likely more personally invested in this venture than others. But it is borne from the same cold-hearted rationale that saw his kingdom murderWashington Postcolumnist Jamal Khashoggi, and cause mass ...
The originalMurder, She Wrote, which ran for a slightly mind-boggling 264 episodes (plus several TV movies) from 1984 to 1996 starredAngela Lansburyas Jessica Fletcher, a writer of mystery novels and an amateur sleuth who winds up solving murder cases in her spare time. The show was one of...