Cleland, Jane K
Summary: "The key to keeping readers on the edge of their seats is filling your stories--from memoirs to thrillers and stage plays to screenplays--with unexpected twists and turns. By integrating Plot *T*wists, Plot *R*eversals, and Moments of Heightened *D*anger(TRDs) at crucial points, you can captivate your readers with I-can't-wait-to-see-what-happens-next intrigue. The quicker pace and focused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 CLEBoström, Mattias
Summary: "Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 BOSSummary: Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.087 LINWheat, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseverance Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3872 WHEFowler, Karen Joy.
Summary: What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWEwan, Chris
Summary: Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense novels for a living. To supplement his income--and keep his hand in--Charlie has a small side business: stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission. When a mysterious American offers Charlie 20,000 euros to steal two small monkey figurines to match the one he already has, Charlie is suspicious; the job seems too good to be true, and of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWAHill, Suzette A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILZackheim, Victoria
Summary: "In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she losther voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PRIEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: She is book editor, Louise Starr, a beautiful and scheming ghost from Amos Walker's past-- and she wants the Detroit private eye to find Eugene Booth, a missing paperback writer from the 1950's and ask him why he turned down his first book contract in 40 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTHillerman, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 HILDommermuth-Costa, Carol.
Summary: A biography of the English mystery writer who, after creating Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, became a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CHRISTIE DOMMichaels, Kasey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MICVanderwarker, Tony.
Summary: "The true story of an author mentored by John Grisham in the art of writing a thriller"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANDERWARKER, TONY VANSummary: The most successful mystery writers in the business present an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries--from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HOWBlackstock, Terri
Summary: A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder in another of the eccentric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAConant, Susan
Summary: The author of a popular series of cat mysteries, Felicity Pride turns sleuth when she finds a cat and a corpse on her doorstep, investigating suspects that range from an avid pet-hater and a highbrow professor to her primary rival in the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConant, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005