Now that it’s officially summer—as of June 21—it’s time to plan not only your vacation but, and perhaps more importantly, your vacation reading. Whether you’re in the mood to settle in with new tales from old favorites like Stephen King and Don Winslow or branch out with German screenwriter Sascha Arango’s debut or the first […]
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Beyond the Walls: The Plusses and Perils of Setting a Novel Outdoors
Setting a Novel Outdoors…better get the mosquito spray… According to a story about Ian Fleming, he asked his friend William Plomer how you got smoke out of a girl. That’s when Plomer knew he was writing a novel—Casino Royale, it turned out, the first in the James Bond series. If memory serves me, Fleming had […]
Top Ten Country Mysteries
By Sarah Hilary Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Although it will never again have the impact it did when I was a teenager reading it for the first time (and innocent of the big twist), Rebecca has an insidious charm. Much like its narrator, who tells us so much when she herself seems […]