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Linda Blair’s Dark JourneyThroughout the shooting of The Exorcist and into postproduction and publicity, a half-dozen crew members would insist that Linda Blair had...
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The 81 Best, Worst, and Strangest Dr. Watson Portrayals of All-Time, RankedThree years ago, when I ranked 100 Sherlock Holmes performances in an article for this very website , I had thought that I had landed upon the...
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My First Thriller: Hank Phillippi Ryan“I’m a firm believer that things happen when the time is right,” says USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. She should know. Her time...
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Leopold and Loeb, 100 Years After“What a rotten writer of detective stories Life is!” By the time he wrote these words, Nathan Leopold, Jr. was middle-aged and balding. But in...
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Writing Is Hard. Grieving Is Harder.Here is a short list of things that are easy: –Brunch. –Turning on the television for your children instead of reading to them. –Looking at...
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On Writing A Modern Thriller About the Wives of Henry VIIIDivorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. That’s the easy way to remember what happened to Henry VIII’s six wives, and even...
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Henriette Lazaridis on the Magic of Discovering Detective Fiction in Her Grandmother’s House in AthensIn my teenaged years, when I traveled to my parents’ native Greece for the summers, I brought with me an entire duffel bag full of books. In...
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Rena Pederson on Dallas’s Elusive, High Society Jewel ThiefOne night in 1970, Rena Pederson, a young wire-service reporter organizing news bulletins printed by the Dallas office’s teletype machines, came...
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How Sarah Langan Took Her Deepest Fears as a New Mother and Built Them Into a NovelA better world is a near future story told through the perspective of a doctor, mother, and wife, who moves with her family to a protected...
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‘Bad Neighbor’ Thrillers That Are Must-ReadsMost of us have experienced a bad neighbor or two in our lifetimes. From dorm life to 20-something apartment life, I remember a lot of neighbors...
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Charlie Huston On Writing His Way To SobrietyOn August 10th, 2023 I was given a small metal chip to celebrate a year of sobriety. It was the first full year of sobriety I’d experienced since...
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Ian Fleming, Special Correspondent to a Moscow Show TrialIn the late 1960s, the screenwriter Jack Whittingham, who had collaborated on the writing of Thunderball , started to write a screenplay...
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The True Crime Writer’s Favorite True CrimeSome books take longer than others. In my case, I first heard about Dr. Paul Volkman – a med-school classmate of my dad who was charged...
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9 Novels About Grand Homes Brimming with SecretsI’ve always loved reading books set in mysterious houses. A great mystery is filled with ambiance, and some of my favorite novels are ones where...
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How McKenna Jordan Became the Owner of A Mystery Bookstore Like No OtherMcKenna Jordan is the owner of Murder By The Book in Houston, Texas, and a consultant for Minotaur Books at Macmillan Publishers....
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Lindy Ryan on Setting a Vampire Novel in a Small Texas TownWhen I first started writing Bless Your Heart and the Evans women, it was a goodbye letter, not the start of a new series. I’d recently lost my...
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5 YA Crime Fiction Reads With Magical ElementsNothing keeps me flipping pages late into the night like a twisty who-done-it mystery or a fast-paced thriller, but my absolute favorite genre...
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Netflix’s New Ripley Series has Many TalentsThe thing about the new Ripley limited series, which premiered on Netflix this week, is that its leading actor, Andrew Scott, is incredibly...
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The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2024April is the cruelest month, so perhaps that’s why all the thrillers coming out this month are so delightfully vicious. In the list below,...
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The Jake Gyllenhaal Noir CanonDoug Liman’s “Road House” remake spends most of its runtime keeping things as sunny and breezy as its Florida Keys setting. Elwood Dalton (Jake...
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12 Thrillers That Prove “Blood Is Thicker Than Water”There is no stronger bond in this world than family, and a caring, loving parent will do just about anything to keep his or her loved ones safe....
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The Allure of Jewelry HeistsAs a society we are not just interested in jewelry heists: you might even say we are obsessed with them. Books, films, TV shows abound decade...
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Mysteries About Translators: A Reading ListOver the past few years, there’s been quite a few novels popping up featuring translators solving crimes. Some of the books are by authors...
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Six of the Best Campus Crime NovelsWhat makes an academic institution the perfect setting for fictional crime? Perhaps it’s because there is so much at stake when a child or young...
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Teresa Dovalpage On Capturing Havana’s Past and Present Through FictionLast Seen in Havana , a suspenseful addition to Teresa Dovalpage’s Havana Mystery series, was released by Soho Press in February 2024. The...
