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The next Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel will be 1937’s Death on the Nile. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Justice League) has been tapped to star and the project is moving full steam ahead with release planned for late 2019….
When Dietrich Kalteis’ Zero Avenue came out in 2017, I remarked on The Rap Sheet that I’d once heard author Owen Laukannen describe Kalteis’ writing as being like “jazz on the page.” If you want to boil Kalteis’ work down very tightly,…
Last year, I waxed poetic about Sam Wiebe’s sophomore novel, Invisible Dead, in The Rap Sheet’s Best of the Year feature. As I said then, in that book Wiebe worked with just about all of the tropes of crime fiction and…
In a New York Times “By the Book” feature, George Pelecanos (The Man Who Came Uptown, The Sweet Forever) admits that his favorite fictional detective is C. W. Sughrue, from James Crumley’s “The Last Good Kiss.“ And that, while he loves fiction…
A core of sadness runs through It All Falls Down (Morrow), Sheena Kamal’s dark and thoughtful followup to her debut novel, 2017’s The Lost Ones (published in the UK as Eyes Like Mine). It All Falls Down continues the back story sketched…
In the tradition of the very best of overnight sensations, Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland Island and Vera Stanhope novels, was an overnight sensation. It’s just that it took 20 years. labored away in relative obscurity for a long time before…
Netflix and Mark Wahlberg have made a deal based on the character of Spenser by the “dean of American crime fiction” Robert B. Parker, who died in 2011. Deadline Hollywood carries news of the deal here: Netflix has made a deal with…
Just can’t get enough crime fiction? The Rap Sheet, January Magazine’s sister publication, offers up a selection of more than 220 works of mystery, crime, and thriller fiction from both sides of the Atlantic scheduled to reach bookstores between now and the…
So sad to lose two crime fiction notables last week: Australian novelist Peter Temple, who died Thursday at age 71; and American mystery and science-fiction writer Kate Wilhelm, who expired on that very same day at age 89. The Rap Sheet reports…
Nicole Kidman will star in a HBO series based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2014 novel, You Should Have Known. The series will be called “Big Little Lies.” From Deadline Hollywood: HBO is re-teaming with key auspices behind its breakout Big Little Lies,…