Ten of the Best Modern Suspense Novels The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The Silence of The Lambs, which follows the tentative relationship between FBI trainee Clarice Starling and incarcerated serial murderer Hannibal Lecter, is the quintessential thriller. Lecter’s psychological manipulation of the young Starling is as chilling on the page as it […]
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Missing: Ten of the Most Notorious Kidnappings
Ten of the Most Notorious Kidnappings FRANK SINATRA JR. This sensational kidnapping had all the hallmarks of a classic noir thriller: the only son of a Hollywood star snatched at gunpoint from a nightclub dressing room. To arrange his son’s quarter-million-dollar ransom, the kidnappers forced Sinatra Sr. to race around Los Angeles calling from pay […]
Ten Ways to Break the Law in 16th Century Spain
Ten Ways to Break the Law in 16th Century Spain From the perspective of a twenty-first-century secular democracy that upholds religious pluralism, gender equality, and LBGT rights, sixteenth-century Spain was a harsh and unforgiving place. Though some crimes, such as murder and robbery, were crimes just as they are today, others were specific to a […]