Ten of the Best Fictional Crime Novels Inspired by News Stories Megan Abbott, The Fever (2015) The inspiration for Abbott’s The Fever was a 2011 mass-hysteria case in LeRoy, New York, when Tourette-like symptoms afflicted a dozen high school girls. Abbott’s novel explores both communal hysteria and the fevered delusions of adolescence, which magnify everything […]
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Sandra Brown,“These eight books influenced me to become a writer.”
Sandra Brown,”These eight books influenced me to become a writer.” I was asked to guest blog about books that influenced me to become a writer. Hmm. Not as easy a request as it might seem. No doubt every book I’ve read, or that was read aloud to me before I acquired the skill, inched me […]
The Panama Canal Mystery…
The Panama Canal Mystery A few years ago, my friend Ivan told me that he’d seen a great documentary on the building of the Panama Canal, and that part of what made it successful was the benevolent dictatorship of Col. George Goethals, who oversaw the final third of the construction. His supervision brought the […]