There’s a reason Joseph Finder is an award-winning, best-selling author: he knows how to tell a deeply compelling story. Despite his proclivity toward writing standalone novels—a relative rarity among career thriller or mystery authors—Finder is adept at delivering a brand-new cast of believable characters for his adventures, and his latest is no exception. The Fixer […]
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Top Ten Scottish Mysteries and Thrillers
Top Ten Scottish Mysteries and Thrillers from Doyle to Ian Rankin… 1. The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Because of the London-centric nature of the Holmes stories, readers easily forget that Conan Doyle was a Scotsman, and that his violin-playing genius-detective, Sherlock, was originally inspired by an Edinburgh physician. But so it […]
Dr. Watson’s Five Greatest Moments
Dr. Watson’s Five Greatest Moments When you write a book about Sherlock Holmes—as I just did, in the form of The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, which explores the whole history of mystery fiction’s most famous character—you soon discover something surprising: you’re actually writing a book about John H. […]