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Top Ten Literary Detective Novels

April 29, 2016 Christopher Charles 0

Top Ten Literary Detective Novels…has Hammett keeping company with Chandler and contemporary master Lauren Beukes jazzing with James Ellroy… A couple of quick notes about how I put this list together: First, by literary, I mean […]

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April Reads… Books to read this spring

April 28, 2016 Jordan Foster 0

Books to read this spring The days are getting longer, which might make you think you should be spending more time outside, but just consider it more daylight hours to read. If you’re adventurous—and live […]

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DVD Review– The American Friend

April 27, 2016 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

DVD Review– The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund)  (DVD Review– The American Friend by Christopher Chan who looks at Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper) Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game, the 1977 movie The American Friend is an […]

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How to research exotic cultures…

April 26, 2016 Lyndsay Faye 0

How to research exotic cultures…plus some recipes for life and the dinner table… I’ve experienced a number of scary things in my life, and here’s a sample: Watched a man tear my purse out of […]

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Top Ten Western Novels

April 25, 2016 Michael McGarrity 0

Top Ten Western Novels The discovery of the Americas and the mysterious, unexplored West fired the imagination of Spanish conquistadors, English pilgrims, French fur traders, and the legions that have followed over the centuries. In […]

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Giving Characters Their Own Voice

April 22, 2016 Brian Freeman 0

Giving Characters Their Own Voice As long as there have been creative writing classes, aspiring authors have received the same advice: Write what you know. Unfortunately, unless you know a lot — and even if […]

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Seven of the best Canadian Mysteries

April 21, 2016 Amy Stuart 0

Seven of the best Canadian Mysteries Here in Canada, there’s no shortage of excellent settings for thrillers and mystery novels. Need your protagonist to get lost? We have millions of acres of dense forest and […]

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DVD Review– True Detective: The Complete Second Season

April 20, 2016 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

DVD Review– True Detective: The Complete Second Season The first season of True Detective was a critical smash, with its fans bandying about praises like “best series ever,” and declaring that it deserved every award available. I had […]

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The true story of a spree of bank robberies that shook Sweden

April 19, 2016 Stefan Thunberg and Anders Roslund 0

The true story of a spree of bank robberies that shook Sweden is finally told in a new book titled The Father… Q: STEFAN, WHEN DID YOU FIGURE OUT THAT YOUR BROTHERS WERE BANK ROBBERS? A: […]

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Hardboiled Detectives and Psychology: Paging Dr. Freud

April 16, 2016 Karen Karydes 0

On a February weeknight in Santa Barbara, California in 1956, Linda Millar, only sixteen and already chronically sad, sat alone in a car and steadily drank nearly two quarts of wine. Then she started driving. […]

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