In 1995 she won the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year for The Mermaids Singing, which first introduced her readership to Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, and went on to become an international bestseller. Fever of the Bone is the sixth novel of this series which inspired the po...
“the greatesthistorical novelever,” she decided to try her hand at mysteries. According to Penny, she stopped writing for an imagined reader and instead focused on what she would like to read. She thus created characters whom she would befriend, andArmand Gamache was largely inspired by her...
“We show that the bias of self-normalizedimportance sampling is of orderN−1, and we obtain new bounds on the moments of the error in importancesampling.We then consider IMH, and show that the common random numbers coupling isoptimal. Using this coupling,we show that the total variation ...
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Among FBI thriller recommendations, this book is definitely lighter fare. However, look no further than the legion of five-star reader reviews to make its case on this list. Farrah Higgins started high school with one thing on her mind: ditching the math geek image that earned her the name...
This was a small book inspired by Sarah’s obsession with presidential assassinations. In it she travels to every site, every museum, and every expert on the first 3 presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley). I found this book both fascinating and really boring all at the...
There was yet another Palahniuk book I had yet to indulge in (review coming soon), A book that inspired a Jennifer Lawrence movie that is about killing kids, but not as a national sport, and then there was Hemingway’s Girl. I could tell right away she was trying to tell me something...
Lately we’ve shared some particularly unnerving true crime stories running the gamut from calculated killings to crimes of passion. In case you missed them, we’ve sifted through all of the murder and mayhem to bring you the creepiest books that fascinated us most. Take a peek. If you dar...
A masterful classic of European literature that inspired Elena Ferrante’s depiction of Naples in her bestselling novels... from Italy The Animal Gazer The hypnotic tale of a masterful sculptor increasingly obsessed with animals as he and Europe teeter on the brink of the World War One. from...
The technophilic tenor of the times, as well as 19th-century laissez-faire capitalism, also inspired a reaction from those who longed for a return to a preindustrial life.William Morris’sNews from Nowhere(1890)envisioneda 21st-century pastoralutopiathat combined theauthor’ssocialist theories with...