by Cole Salao | Oct 1, 2021 | Book Recommendations, Thriller Genres
Consider this: A man is left alone in a windowless room with only one exit. When the door is opened, the man is found dead in a way that’s unmistakably murder, yet no weapon or culprit is found and no signs of forced entry are seen. This is the locked-room...
by Cole Salao | Sep 17, 2021 | Book Recommendations, Thriller Genres
If you love crime dramas, then you’ve probably read the occasional police procedural. It’s a subgenre of detective fiction where the focus of the story is the investigative process of the police. This subgenre...
by Kaelyn Barron | Sep 2, 2021 | Film and TV, Thriller Genres
“Giallo” is the Italian word for the color yellow. However, it is also used to describe many crime and mystery thrillers. Starting in the late 1920s, Mondadori, an Italian publisher, began publishing a series of crime-mystery pulp novels,...
by Cole Salao | Aug 20, 2021 | Thriller Genres
“The butler did it!” is one of the most recognizable cliches in mystery literature. This trope takes one of the least likely suspects, who is usually dismissed throughout the narrative, and presents them as the antagonist in the big reveal. Here’s a...
by Kaelyn Barron | Aug 12, 2021 | Thriller Genres
In both film and literature, the terms “thriller” and “horror” are often used interchangeably. Sometimes the difference is obvious, but once in a while, you’ll come across an example that seems to contain elements of both. In this post,...
by Kaelyn Barron | Jul 31, 2021 | Thriller Genres
As a reader, you rely on the narrator of a story to guide you through the story’s events. That’s placing a lot of responsibility and power in their hands, because the narrator essentially shapes the whole story! But should you believe everything they tell...
by Kaelyn Barron | Jul 12, 2021 | Thriller Genres
According to 2018 statistics, thrillers are the most popular genre among U.S. adult book sales. And although thrillers aren’t for everyone, if you happened to love your first thriller, chances are you couldn’t wait to pick up the next. What makes thrillers so...
by Kaelyn Barron | Jul 10, 2021 | Thriller Genres
Good thrillers are a lot like bad romances: they pull you in from the very start, take you on a wild ride filled with rising tension, and keep you guessing until the very end. But is there more to thrillers than just the thrills? As one of the most popular fiction...
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