Ten Captivating Novels Set in Europe The Girl with a Pearl Earing, Tracey Chevalier Setting: Delft, Netherlands Chevalier writes with such evocative tones in this one of my favourite books. You can, when reading it, almost smell the river and the rotting vegetables and stale beer of the 17th century town where artist Johannes Vermeer […]
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Top Ten Tips for Writing a Page-Turner
Top Ten Tips for Writing a Page-Turner When I sat down to write my first thriller, I wanted to write something that moved really fast, a story that was so intense that you couldn’t look away. My goal was to write a page-turner that the reader could not put down. The Couple Next Door has […]
Top Ten Civil War Mysteries
Top Ten Civil War Mysteries The Civil War novel is a cottage industry unto itself: library and bookstore shelves sag under the weight of battlefield chronicles brimming with pageantry, gun smoke, valor, and carnage. But within the mystery and thriller genres, the War Between the States has received fairly scant treatment. Which is a shame, […]