Chomp by Carl Hiaasen is a kid-friendly crime novel that’s fun for adults, too (available March 27, 2012). When Wahoo Cray’s animal-wrangler dad takes a job with a reality TV show called “Expedition Survival!”, Wahoo figures he’ll have to do a bit of wrangling himself—to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show’s boneheaded…
Recently, I’ve noticed a genre label being used, and I don’t understand what it means. I’m hoping CE readers can help define this slippery term: “literary thriller.” It’s in use by authors, agents, marketing departments, reviewers, bloggers, tweeters and a host of others. However, its usage is also inconsistent, confusing, and mystifying. I think it’s…
This is the third installment in our Death Brackets: Toughest Dicks vs Baddest Thriller Heroes. In the intro, you learned the rules and met the contestants. In Part 1 of the First Round, we gave you the first four matches of our Savage Sixteen. Today, the last four. And then the competition gets really stiff!
Mysteries and thrillers, by nature, are populated by tough guys. Detectives who hunt down serial killers. Spies who uncover dangerous traitors. Assassins who take out the worst bad guys on the planet — and anti-heroes like Dexter and Hannibal Lecter with enough goodness in their dark hearts that they sometimes turn their characters around and…
