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Top Ten Mystery Novels
Top Ten Mystery Novels (Compiling a list of the top ten mystery novels was not an easy feat, I’d rather have compiled a list of the top 50 mystery novels and even then I’d be […]
Month: January 2016
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THE POWER OF PLACE: PERFECT SETTINGS FOR NOVELS…
When I’m writing I consider the setting as a character. After all, places have distinct personalities. Think of a small, honky-tonk amusement park. Or a hospital. A university. A large corporation. Each one has (sometimes […]
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Murder in the Fjords…
Murder in the Fjords…I have enjoyed telling creepy stories since I was a child. I’ve always had this voice in my head that asks, “What if …”When you write a crime novel series with a […]
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Top Ten favorite fictional mystery series characters that haven’t made it to American Television
Top Ten favorite fictional mystery series characters that haven’t made it to American Television I split my time between writing books and writing for television, so I’m always on the prowl for a thriller or […]
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Mystery Books To Read in January
A new year means new books, though it’s perfectly acceptable to still work through your 2015 to-read pile in your spare time, too. Even if your official New Year’s resolution wasn’t to read more books […]
Film/DVD Reviews
DVD Review: The Guilty
Upon its release, The Guilty was frequently compared, usuallynegatively, to the far more celebrated and honored television seriesBroadchurch. There are several reasons for this. Both series focuson the investigation of the murder of a young boy. Both […]
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From Gone Girl to Girl on a Train: The Unreliable Narrator
From Gone Girl to Girl on a Train: The Unreliable NarratorTo Know or Not To Know? That is the question…the challenge of writing from the perspective of an unreliable narrator. Unreliable narrators – those slippery customers […]
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Top Ten Mysteries Set in Asia
Top Ten Mysteries Set in Asia Two decades ago, I was waylaid by Asia. My original travel plan called for a lengthy stay in either London or Paris, but I stopped in Tokyo “on the […]
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Top Ten Serial Killer Novels
Serial killers have long been a favorite villain in suspense novels, for readers and writers alike (including myself – the debut book in my Profiler series has my heroine hunting down the Bakersville Burier, a […]