Agatha Christie’s Tips for Avoiding Wrongful Arrest In Death in the Clouds (1935), Norman Gale says to Jane Grey: “Murder […] doesn’t concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don’t know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.” Hercule Poirot also […]
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Five Great Settings for Crime Thrillers Setting in a story is as important as ingredients in a recipe.
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How Do You Write a Novel with 14 Different Authors? Carefully. It started with After Party. Not an after party, but “The After Party,” as in the Apple TV show that turned heads in 2022. Bestselling thriller novelists Joe Finder and Gregg Hurwitz had watched it and liked the premise of a story about a murder at a high school reunion after party as told through […]
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Good Bad Guys: Tim Lebbon On Crafting Villains Creating a bad guy is good fun. It’s often said that the antagonists in novels are the most enjoyable to write and often the readers’ favourite characters, and maybe that’s because it’s a matter of extremes. A good guy can have hidden depths and troubles, but he/she/they are almost always fighting these troubles and ensuring […]
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The Environmental Anxiety of The Sisters Brothers This is probably too surface-level a claim with which to begin a review, but, anyway: despite its giggily title, the gold-rush-era Western The Sisters Brothers, which is based on the novel by Patrick deWitt, is not a comedy. It’s definitely not. It’s helpful to know this before seeing it, lest you become distractedly shocked by […]
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