Crime Novels

Is Your Psycho Killer Just...Psycho?

Dennis Palumbo | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Mystery, Ray Bradbury, Fever Dream, Mirror Image, Writing Tips, Crime Novels, Mystery Novels, Thriller Novels, Writing a Novel, Books News
Dennis Palumbo

The next time you begin conceptualizing your crime story's villain, don't be afraid to mine your own feelings. Down deep, below the surface. It's where the motherlode of characterization, and all the narrative gold that results, lies hidden.

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Writing a Muscular Mystery

Lev Raphael | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Book News, Authors, Health Clubs, Gyms, Crime Novels, Murder Mysteries, Joseph Heller, Book Publishing, Crime, Books, Pilates, Mysteries, Mystery Novels, Monty Python, Books News
Lev Raphael

I've always been making up stories about people I see, whether in restaurants, malls, parks, theaters, wherever. hat's just how I see the world, or the many worlds within this world. One of those is the enormous health club that I've belonged to for 20 years.

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Down the Darkest Road Is a Look at Crime in the Early 1990s

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Legal Rights of Victims, 1990's Criminal Procedures, Dna Testing, Criminal Abduction, Tami Hoag, Crime Novels, New Books, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

Down the Darkest Road is the latest in Tami Hoag's stories about Oak Knoll. It is also her latest book about a world before DNA testing, massive related computer intelligence, and other criminal techniques became common.

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Why Does It Matter If The Writer Is A Woman?

| By Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, Femicrime, Scandanavian Crime Novels, Genre, Womens Crime Novels, Chick Lit, Women Genre, Lisbeth Salander, Genre Problems, New Chick Lit, Books News

By Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis for Bookish: Lisbeth Salander, the rugged yet vulnerable hacker chick who powered Stieg Larsson's trilogy to the...

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Lights, Camera, Hide the Movie!

Lisa Gardner | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Crime Novels, Tnt Movies, Hide the Movie, Film Adaptations, Mystery Movie Night, Crime News
Lisa Gardner

A behind-the-scenes look of how a bestselling suspense novel becomes a feature movie.

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Kia Makarechi

Coming To A TV Near You: Mystery Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Carol Higgins Clark, Crime Novels, Movie Mystery Night, Video, Tnt, Sandra Brown, Scott Turow, Mary Higgins Clark, Mystery Novels, Marcia Gay Harding, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, Richard North Patterson, Lisa Gardner, April SMith, Books News

Fans of the nation's top mystery novelists received a treat Thursday when TNT invited them to a Manhattan sneak preview of the filmic adaptation of Sc...

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Was Jane Austen Murdered?

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, Jane Austen Novels, Jane-Austen-Murder, Jane Austen, Books We Love, Jane Austen Poisoned, Lindsay Ashford, The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen, Jane-Austen-Death, Armchair Detective, Books News

Until yesterday, Jane Austen was thought to have died of bovine tuberculosis or Hodgkin's lymphoma, a strain of cancer. But crime writer, Lindsay Ashf...

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Mystery, Clues, Suspense -- Just Another Day on the Job

Dennis Palumbo | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Crime Novels, Crime Fiction, Suspense Novels, Mysteries, Crime Writing, Mystery Novel, Mystery Writers, Writing Crime, Books News
Dennis Palumbo

As a mystery writer, I believe that crime stems from strong emotions, and strong emotions stem from conflict.

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Hard Print: Heralding the Return of Hard Case Crime

John Hood | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Charles Ardai, Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block, Hard Case Crime, New Crime Novels, Hard Case Crime Novels, Crime Novels, Favorite Crime Novels, Books News
John Hood

In 2010 there was a hiccup at Hard Case Crime, and its fans found themselves without a regular dose of the dark and lonely. Last week though, Hard Case Crime returned to the racks, with not one but two hard-boiled offerings from two Grandmasters of the form.

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Murder and Mayhem in a Parked Car

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mystery Novels, Books, Mystery Writers, Crime Novels, Thrillers, Murder Mystery, Novels, Mystery Books, Books News
Holly Robinson

What is it about mystery novels? I've never hit, kicked, stabbed, or shot anyone. I want to weep when I hear news stories of real beatings or murders. Yet I can't fit enough killings into my waking hours.

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Are The Best Crime Writers Prone To Violence?

Mulholland Books | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: True Crime Novels, Mario Puzo, True Crime Books, The Dark Arena, True Crime, Crime, Puzo, The Godfather, Harry Grey the Hoods, Crime Novels, Harry Grey, The Hoods, Studs Longians, James T Farrell, Crime Books, Books News

My favorite crime novel, "The Hoods" by Harry Grey, was written by a man who was serving time for manslaughter in Sing Sing. While it is true one of t...

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The Gamble And The Payoff: Don Winslow On Pushing Boundaries

Jason Pinter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime Fiction, Literature, New York Times, Publishing, Don Winslow, Books, Don Winslow Interviw, Thrillers, Crime Novels, Jason Pinter, Books News
Jason Pinter

If I thought that a reader might experience a scene better as a film than as a novel, then I wrote it in screenplay form; if I thought that a scene would read better as poetry than as narrative prose, then I wrote it as poetry.

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Ridley Pearson's Character Model: A Sun Valley, Idaho Sheriff

NPR | Ridley Pearson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, Ridley Pearson, Walt Femling, Books, Writing, Fiction, Killer View, Sun Valley, Sheriff, Reading, Books News

Writer Ridley Pearson, who has written four thrillers starring the sheriff, says he based his hero on Walt Femling, the real sheriff of Sun Valley and...

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How Not To Pitch A Crime Novel

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Books, Writing, Crime Novel Festival, Books News

Crime, once the Cinderella of literary fiction, is continuing to grow in popularity, as was clear last week in Harrogate, at the Theakston Old Peculie...

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Another Kind Of Paper Trail: Books Might Hold Key To Connecticut Killings

New York Times | William Glaberson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Hayes, Murder, In Cold Blood, Capote, Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Books, Fiction, Criminal Trial, Crime Novels, Reading, Books News

The defense lawyers' suggestion that prison library books could have shaped the crime, or that knowing Mr. Hayes read them could turn jurors against h...

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Sweden's Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg's Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ingrid Bergman, Camilla Lackberg, Stieg Larsson, Agatha Christie, Crime Novels, Swedish Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Nine million people live in Sweden. Camilla Läckberg has sold three million books there. She is, her publisher boasts, "the most profitable native author in Swedish history."

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P.D. James On The Enduring Appeal Of Detective Fiction

Telegraph | Sarah Crompton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, Detective Fiction, Detectives, P.D. James, Books, Mystery Novels, Agatha Christie, Books News

The greatest mystery of detective fiction is why generations of readers have continued to read it in such huge numbers. Obviously, it is partly to do ...

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James Patterson Founds International Crime Novel Franchise

The Wall Street Journal | Alexandra Alter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Detective Novels, Private London, International Franchise, Books, Writing, James Patterson, Collaboration, Crime Novels, Co-Authors, Steig Larsson, Books News

Mr. Patterson plans to partner on his new "Private" series with writers in Germany, Italy, England and Australia. Mr. Patterson has long relied on co-...

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After Stieg Larsson's Huge Success, Publishers Look For Next Big Foreign Crime Novel

The Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Crime Fiction, Books, Foreign Books, Books News

Spurred by the popularity of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's trilogy, which has sold more than 40 million copies world-wide, U.S. publishers are combin...

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Top 10 African Crime Novels

The Guardian | Michael Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Deon Meyer, African Fiction, Africa, Writing, John Le Carre, African Crime Novels, Crime Novels, Robert Wilson, Reading, Agatha Christie, Books News

The African crime writing duo pick the best books in their field, from established greats Agatha Christie and John Le Carré to newer names on the sce...

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Could A Crime Novel Ever Win The Booker Prize?

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crime Novels, Miles Franklin Award, Peter Temple, Miles Franklin, Literary Prizes, Books, Peter Temple Truth, Booker Prize, Books News

Literary awards have been one of the last bastions of high culture, but in the week when the crime writer Peter Temple took Australia's top literary p...

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Henning Mankell, Swedish Crime Writer, Held In Custody In Israel

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henning Mankell, Crime Novels, Sweden, Gaza, Israel, Books, Henning Mankell Israel, Books News

Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, author of the Wallander detective series, is one of nine Swedes held in Israel Monday after landing from a Gaza-...

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The 11 Best Male Movie Adaptions (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fight Club, James Bond, Crime Novels, The Godfather, Thrillers, Book to Movie, Movie Adaptations, Books, Slidepoll, Guys Books, Bourne Identity, The Ghost Writer, Books News

Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" premiered last week, and became just the most recent blockbuster thriller to be based on a book -- Robert Harris's...

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Patricia Cornwell On "The Scarpetta Factor" (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Cornwell was on Good Morning America this morning to talk about her new book, "The Scarpetta Factor." She spoke about the "CSI effect" in cou...

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