A case with twists and turns like a crime novel
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CHICAGO — It had all the elements of a suspenseful crime novel.
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The list of misdeeds is like something out of a crime novel.
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The wrong kind of ambiguity in a crime novel can be fatal.
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His moody, literary 2010 crime novel Galveston was up for an Edgar Award.
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For sure, it's a heist story, whatever, crime novel, set on the moon.
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He had little hope his intellectual cousin would connect with a crime novel.
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Force of Nature is the kind of crime novel that will appeal to everyone.
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The prosecutor with something to hide is something out of a pulpy crime novel.
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But ultimately "The Butterfly Girl" is a crime novel with a murderer on the loose.
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Another essential ingredient of a great crime novel is a surprising solution to the mystery.
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"The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle," by Stuart Turton, a startlingly original debut crime novel.
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The film is based on Dennis Lehane's award winning crime novel set in the Prohibition Era.
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BOOK REVIEW A review last Sunday about Sara Blaedel's new crime novel misstated the book's title.
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Although Jordan's cultivated English narrator, Jonathan, is indeed a detective, it isn't really a crime novel either.
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"The Whites," Richard Price A sociological study disguised as a crime novel, set in New York City.
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"It sounds like a good crime novel," Hanson's former defense attorney Russell Babcock said in court last year.
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Visuals Los Angeles — superficially bright but, deep down, dark — has been the ultimate setting for the crime novel.
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I'm really enjoying Nathaniel Rich's "King Zeno," a historical crime novel set in New Orleans a century ago.
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Starring Octavia Spencer, this mystery drama is based on a crime novel with the same name by Kathleen Barber.
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Mr. Lin and Ms. Robbie are collaborating on "Barbed Wire Heart," a film adaptation of Tess Sharpe's crime novel.
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And he's the author of true crime novel, The Only Living Witness that details the events leading to Bundy's execution.
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The book tells six separate stories, each in a different genre (including historical fiction, pulp crime novel, and dystopian tale).
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Owen Hanson's life would make a good crime novel—which makes it even harder to believe that it's all real.
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Crime When a character in a crime novel snaps and kills a child, it's usually a mother stressed beyond endurance.
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One mystery, perhaps, ties the others together: How much inspiration for the crime was drawn from a Patricia Cornwell crime novel?
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Understanding how vertebrates transitioned from water to land is like following the plot of a crime novel, Fröbish and Witzman said.
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"Deacon King Kong" is many things: a mystery novel, a crime novel, an urban farce, a portrait of a project community.
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This is a crime novel that requires a level of concentration and engagement with international politics some readers may balk at.
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After firing Babcock, the attorney who had compared his case to a crime novel, Hanson hired a lawyer named Mark F. Adams.
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The Mueller report turns out to be a crime novel, philosophy of science text, logic game, and strategic maneuver all at once.
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The Chinese internet is like the small-town setting of a crime novel: Things are mysteriously disappearing from it all the time.
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But don't expect a crime novel full of detail about the assaults, and don't expect an excavation of the survivors' emotional experience.
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She recalled when, years ago — following the success of the Potter series — she sent around manuscripts for her crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling.
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That's the challenge Linwood Barclay throws down in PARTING SHOT (Doubleday Canada, $27), a tough-minded crime novel about the dangers of vigilantism.
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The New Yorker magazine writer Casey Cep will explore Ms. Lee's unfinished crime novel in a book for Alfred A. Knopf next year.
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It captures the unease of the central character within seemingly well-ordered Japan that the review suggests the crime novel conveys so well.
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The true crime novel is the true genesis of the genre, with books offering both an escape and an alternative look into frightening subjects.
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He points out a new Japanese crime novel, a recently published translation of a Uruguayan rapper's lyrics, and a popular cookbook of Basque cuisine.
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In 1995, he published Bone in the Throat, a crime novel set in the restaurant world, and in 1997 a follow-up, Gone Bamboo.
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Deep into Fuminori Nakamura's new crime novel, a woman is held at gunpoint, taunted by a man practiced in the art of slow torture.
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Lee did write at least four pages of a true crime novel to be called "The Reverend," confirmed by this fascinating New Yorker report.
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Perhaps an even better example of this kind of warning is Attica Locke's 22010 crime novel Pleasantville, her second featuring lawyer hero Jay Porter.
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His translation work includes Keigo Higashino's award-winning crime novel The Devotion of Suspect X, and multiple manga from famed Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.
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Based on the critically-acclaimed crime novel Sacred Games by Indian author Vikram Chandra, it will be made in partnership with Indian production house Phantom Films.
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It's a crime novel, an art history thesis, an LGBTQ coming-of-age story, and a meditation on toxic masculinity all wrapped up in 976 pages.
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The Wife arrived in the thick of the #MeToo revelations and their aftermath, and it was the crime novel I thought of most during the Kavanagh hearings.
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Earlier, it announced it was giving Indian comedian Vir Das his own special, and greenlit "Sacred Games," based on the Indian crime novel of the same name.
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Battisti, who became a successful crime novel writer, said last year that he feared he would be tortured and killed if he were sent back to Italy.
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The manuscript of a great first crime novel so that I could publish another author whose life is changed when he or she becomes a huge success.
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George Stade, a highbrow literary scholar who studied lowbrow fiction and who wrote the provocative 21945 satirical crime novel "Confessions of a Lady-Killer," died on Feb.
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Depp will star in the movie adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic 1934 crime novel alongside Stars Wars' Daisy Ridley, and Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children's Judi Dench.
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The book weighs in at a dense 600 pages, which requires more dedication (from the reader as well as the writer) than is usual for a crime novel.
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A Yi, who was a police officer in Jiangxi Province before writing thrillers, said in an interview that the crime novel might have exhausted its potential in China.
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Books News After he published his surreal epic, "The Underground Railroad," in the summer of 2016, Colson Whitehead was set to write a crime novel set in Harlem.
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Set in a Paris arrondissement of many hues and faiths, this enthralling début revels in tropes of the crime novel even as it careers cheekily beyond the genre.
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From that first scene to the end of its eight episodes, the series hews to its source: a sprawling, 900-page crime novel by Vikram Chandra, published in 2006.
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Today in stories that read like a true crime novel, a nun named Sister Holzman, who is involved in a lawsuit against singer Katy Perry, died in open court.
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But along the way, it spends a lot of time in the bleached deserts of the American Southwest, looking like a noir murder mystery or a pulp crime novel.
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The crime novel, in its most serious form, has always been used to reflect trends and lament losses and clang the bell of warning to the ills of society.
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Commissioned by, yes, a small film company to produce an installment of a French TV channel's series of crime novel adaptations, Mr. Godard instead created something almost wholly other.
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JOHN It is based on the crime novel "The Bone Collector," which was published in 1997 and made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in 1999.
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Now, nothing to do with cakes or ale, but I'm enjoying this dark, Australian crime novel, "Resurrection Bay," by Emma Viskic, with its deaf protagonist, Caleb Zelic. Hard-boiled!
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On this episode of Word to the Wise, Leah Carroll sits down with Abbott to discuss the art of the perfect crime novel (and trust us, this one is perfect).
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To promote "Batman v Superman," Mr. Affleck took a hiatus from postproduction work on "Live by Night," which he directed, stars in and adapted from Dennis Lehane's period crime novel.
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She earned her second Oscar nomination for a five-and-a-half-minute scene with Robert Mitchum in "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), based on a crime novel by Raymond Chandler.
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Based on Dashiell Hammett's crime novel of the same name, the movie follows the glamorous life of the couple as they pursue murder clues and drink a lot of martinis.
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The miniseries was written by Richard Price, prolific crime novel author and writer on The Wire, and Steven Zaillian, who wrote the screenplays for American Gangster and Schindler's List, among others.
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Using the hashtags #påskekrim and #eastercrime, Norwegians users post photos of their true crime novel of choice, usually accompanied by a mug of tea, glass of wine, or other cozy accoutrements.
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When both men are wandering around on their own, The Nice Guys resembles an Elmore Leonard crime novel, full of barely connected, colorful characters whose haplessness keeps them from greater things.
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Young Blood The teenage murder victims in Kwei Quartey's socially conscious crime novel "Children of the Street," the second Inspector Darko Dawson mystery, live on the bustling streets of Accra, Ghana.
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Twenty years in the making, "CoDex 1962" is made up of three sections, which were published as individual books in Iceland — a romance, a crime novel and a science fiction story.
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With items that range from a $10 true crime novel to a super-rare bottle of whiskey that tops out at $300, everything on this list should pass muster with your guy.
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Among Waters's works, which range from her delightful picaresque debut Tipping the Velvet (1998) to the slow-building crime novel The Paying Guests (2014), The Little Stranger is an anomaly on multiple fronts.
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"Instinct," created by Michael Rauch from the crime novel by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, is the first hourlong network drama with a gay lead and a bit of a risk for CBS.
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Caleb Carr's best-selling 1994 historical crime novel and its protagonist, the pioneering proto-forensic psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, languished in development hell for decades before this long-awaited limited series finally arrived.
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The "Saturday Night Live" and "Friends" alumni are cast as a New York City police detective and his crime-novel-loving wife who become suspects in a murder while on a European vacation.
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"Her characters are mostly black women or brown people living in a world that is deeply problematic, and it's a different underbelly than you would get in the typical L.A. crime novel," Meltzer said.
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And if you're looking for a very smart, very funny, very dark crime novel that's more literary than pulp, pull up Edward Conlon's "Red on Red," which I missed when it came out in 2011.
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Now, it's nothing to do with black cake or pan pizza, but Marilyn Stasio turned me on to Attica Locke's second crime novel about the Texas Ranger Darren Mathews, "Heaven, My Home," which I'd missed.
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But "Six Four" is a crime novel, set right here in our world — a world that this story's hero, a middle-aged prefectural policeman named Yoshinobu Mikami, comes to find nearly unrecognizable, a world gone mute.
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In 1998, before he established himself as a cable news superstar, Mr. O'Reilly's wrote "Those Who Trespass," a violent crime novel about an unhinged broadcast journalist who murders the network executives and correspondents who have slighted him.
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You don't often meet a woman of Patience's age in a crime novel unless she is a background character or a victim, but Cayre's middle-aged protagonist delivers her darkly comic adventure in the underworld with sardonic intelligence.
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Broken River Books, who published his latest, Coyote Songs, barely has a website, but that hasn't stopped this book — a hybrid horror/crime novel set in the American Southwest — from being noticed, including ranking in Amazon best-seller categories.
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"This story is endlessly fascinating and as in any good crime novel we find the truth piece by piece," said Lone Theils, the author of "Fatal Crossing," a novel about two young girls who go missing on a ferry.
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Ace Attorney was designed as a portable game, and it's best experienced that way, as if you were playing through a great crime novel — one that involves ancient spirits, clueless judges, and a never-ending supply of inexplicable plot twists.
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We find out that the man in the first video is called Dr. Elias Cunningham, and that he moved into the house in the 1997 to write a true crime novel based on two murderous nurses who killed their elderly patients.
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Streaming service: Apple TV+Premiere date: Late Fall 2019Cast: Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, Michael Beach, Ron Cephas Jones, Mekhi Phifer, Tracie Thoms, and Haneefah WoodPremise: Based on Kathleen Barber's best-selling crime novel Are You Sleeping?
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In particular, the debut season features everything from a rumination on how the spirit of the '60s faded away to a femme fatale performance by Christina Hendricks to a pair of weirdo assassins straight out of a pulp crime novel.
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Joe King Oliver, a New York private eye who makes his debut in Walter Mosley's new crime novel, DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $27), went into prison with a love of classic jazz masters like Fats Waller.
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Among the highlights is Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955), a noir — adapted from a Mickey Spillane crime novel — whose tangled plotting, unexplained character entrances and themes of nuclear apocalypse could easily have set the template for the current season.
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No "silly wee lassie" like some of the clueless young characters she writes about so sympathetically, McDermid applies her formidable intelligence and muscular style to the kind of urban crime novel that gives Scotland its tough rep and vigorous lingo.
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Not only is Fresh off the Boat a warm show, it's also a deeply weird one that's unafraid to have fun and let the Huangs indulge their quirkier habits (see: Jessica's crime novel, and her son Evan's vice hold on the neighborhood council).
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Listening to Oxbow, for me, is akin to being trapped inside of the grimiest crime novel ever written so the choice to present the video in monochrome, with the spliced footage of burning film (evidence?) was a deliberate nod to 40s film noir.
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With these and other clichés so close to hand, it's actually refreshing to pick up THE SECOND GIRL (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $26), a sweaty crime novel by the veteran police detective David Swinson, and come across a protagonist with a cocaine addiction.
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"Are You Sleeping?" a Mystery Starring Octavia Spencer A drama featuring the prolific Academy Award winner in the lead role, "Are You Sleeping?" is based on a crime novel by Kathleen Barber that featured a cold case and a sleuth with a podcast.
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As with "The Executioner's Song," Mailer's true-crime novel about the life and death of Gary Gilmore, at its best "On God" is about how we negotiate our place in the universe, as well as our tendency toward both good and evil.
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As with "The Executioner's Song," Mailer's true-crime novel about the life and death of Gary Gilmore, at its best "On God" is about how we negotiate our place in the universe, as well as our tendency toward both good and evil.
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The directors and the design team worked to create a distinct style for each of the five parts, keyed to the radically different literary genres Mr. Bolaño drew on: fairy tale, hard-boiled crime novel, academic satire, lyrical short story, "Don Quixote"-style picaresque.
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For the most part, the residents of Winstead are the sort of people you'd expect to find in a quiet rural village in 1942, even 12-year-old Lilly Martin, who spies on the neighbors in hopes of collecting material for a crime novel.
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"Her characters are mostly black women or brown people living in a world that is deeply problematic, and it's a different underbelly than you would get in the typical L.A. crime novel," said Julia Meltzer, founder and director of Los Angeles arts organization Clockshop.
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That audience was presumably much better-versed on the scandal that inspired the series (and the John Preston true-crime novel it was adapted from), which involved a closeted gay member of Parliament named Jeremy Thorpe, a male model, blackmail and a murder plot.
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The film's screenwriter, Matthew Wilder, and director, Paul Schrader, have loosely adapted Edward Bunker's grim, earnest 1997 crime novel (which is flecked with genuine social commentary about mass incarceration, corporate malfeasance and other issues) into a purposefully coarse, giddy-approaching-giggly, pulp-Pop Art cartoon.
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" Too often, though, he seems to lose interest in his own narrative, slouching into how Martin wants "the golden, Hollywood-bright destiny that all Americans seemed to believe was their due," while Francis feels his adventures "all sounded like something out of a true-crime novel.
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The 1992 true crime novel Forever and Five Days, by Lowell Cauffiel, is based on their story, and, in yet another parallel with the show, Graham and Wood appeared in two episodes of a TV series called The Serial Killers, in which they recounted the details of their crimes.
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He was a prolific writer, famous, among other things, for inventing the true crime novel and for writing a serialized roman à clef so scandalous that he had to abandon it halfway through or risk being dropped by his wealthy friends after he revealed all their sordid secrets.
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Caleb Carr's 1994 crime novel The Alienist — about the titular character, an early psychologist, and his pals attempting to solve a series of gruesome murders in 1890s New York — is one of those books that prompts almost immediate fan casting of the big-screen adaptation once it's over.
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Crime They may look like soul brothers, but Joe King Oliver, a New York private eye who makes his first appearance in Walter Mosley's new crime novel, DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $27), parts company with the author's previous detectives, Easy Rawlins and Leonid McGill.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%Summary: Based on the crime novel by Thomas Harris, "The Silence of the Lambs" is a psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme that focuses on the chilling rapport between FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and psychopathic cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).
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Directors Mario Martone and Roberto Faenza, who directed, respectively, the movie adaptations of Troubling Love and Days of Abandonment, explain how Ferrante's works have a screenplay-like quality and read "like a crime novel," with "a strong scaffolding" in their narrative structure, while still making good use of minute details.
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The writer Gabriel Cohen, who went to the island to research his crime novel, "The Graving Dock," back when it first opened to civilians in 233, remembers the remnants of the Coast Guard era: the bowling alley, the Burger King, the schools, the movie theater — all hastily abandoned like Pompeii.
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Currently I have the new Penguin Classics collection of Richard Matheson short stories, some zines of very funny essays by the comedian April Richardson that I got in the mail, and the newly reissued crime novel "Breakout," featuring the great, emotionless thief, Parker, which is also what I'm reading on my phone.
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In recent years, before constructing puzzles again, I wrote two futuristic, hard-boiled crime novel e-books (inspired by stories written by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett) and created two more e-books of cartoons (inspired by my fondness for Hallowe'en and the artistic works of Charles Addams in "The Addams Family").
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This is the most special element of the book, the way it balances on the fence between genres—there is suspense that comes from wanting to solve the murders, and then another layer of suspense hovering above that, that comes from wanting to know which type of book it will turn out you have been reading: a crime novel or a fairy tale.
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While the charges against Mr. Guzmán read like the sort of pulp-crime novel that Gabriel García Márquez might have written, detailing the defendant's rise from a lowly teenage marijuana farmer to a global kingpin who earned billions of dollars and liked to walk around with a gold-plated AK-47, the case, as it has played out so far, has been mired in legal details.
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Novels released this year include Mr. Ibrahim's "Season of Crimson Blossoms;" Ms. Ladipo Manyika's novel, "Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun," which centers on a 74-year-old Nigerian woman living in San Francisco, and Leye Adenle's crime novel "Easy Motion Tourist," a dark noir tale that unfolds in Lagos, where a British journalist who comes to cover the elections ends up investigating a series of gruesome murders targeting prostitutes.
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