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Thomas Harris

A Brit’s 400-mile Road Trip Hunting American Crime

By A.D. Garrett

July 30, 2015

Road trip – had to be a winner, right? As a kid growing up in the narrow streets of northern England, I knew America as surely as I knew the grey concrete of my own back yard. For years, I had a recurring dream; I was driving along a winding coast road – steep rocky…

Hannibal 3.05: “Contorno” Means Accompaniment

By Clare Toohey

July 3, 2015

Casually, contorno is a “side dish,” but that phrase isn't reverent enough for Hannibal 3.05's ode to accompanying women. I've pointed out other instances in which the women in this show just won't go along, and instead run on their own tracks. In this episode, we're reminded how each acts from her own motivational center,…

A Taste of Hannibal’s Season 3!

By Clare Toohey

May 27, 2015

Get a taste of the Season 3 trailer for Hannibal!  Purely from later events, Thomas Harris fans already know Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) must have survived the bloodbath at Hannibal's to catch Dr. Lecter later, and we also know for sure that Dr. Chilton (Raúl Esparza) will be a future obstacle. But if you've forgotten…

Fresh Meat: The Winter Foundlings by Kate Rhodes

By Kate Lincoln

February 22, 2015

The Winter Foundlings by Kate Rhodes is the third book starring forensic psychologist Alice Quentin who heads to a psychiatric prison to interview an inmate (available February 24, 2015). It’s hard not to draw comparisons to Silence of the Lambs when reading Kate Rhodes’ third novel, The Winter Foundlings, which continues the story of forensic…

Villains in Fact and Fiction

By Jon Land

October 3, 2014

The world changed seismically for thrillers on 9/11.  All of a sudden, the dastardly plots and cunning villains that had been a staple of the genre dating back to Ian Fleming had been outdone by reality. Although both Thomas Harris and Tom Clancy had written books foreshadowing that fateful day, nothing could prepare for us…

Before Hannibal Lecter, There was Thomas Bishop: Shane Stevens’ Forgotten Killer

By Chad Eagleton

August 26, 2014

Credit for the serial killer subgenre usually goes to Thomas Harris. However, two years before Harris introduced us to Hannibal Lecter, Shane Stevens wrote about Thomas Bishop in By Reason of Insanity, a serial killer thriller that predates the term serial killer. Thomas Bishop’s mother, Sarah, resented him from birth. He robbed her of her…

Opening scene of Hannibal

Hannibal Pilot: “Apértif”

By Amber Keller

April 6, 2013

I eagerly awaited Hannibal with the hopefulness of a child at Christmas. And did I get what I wanted? Let’s see… Let me speak about the opening scene for a moment, if you will. The introduction to Will Graham, played brilliantly by Hugh Dancy, is an attention-grabber. We see a crime scene through his eyes,…

Our First Taste of NBC’s Hannibal

By Crime HQ

April 2, 2013

At CrimeHQ, we got an early chance to see the premiere of the new crime series Hannibal, premiering Thursday, April 4. The series is positioned as a prequel, set much earlier than when we joined retired FBI profiler Will Graham and the already-imprisoned Dr. Lecter in the movie Manhunter, which was based on Thomas Harris’s…

Criminal Minds

Criminal Profiling and the Art of Fictioning the Facts

By Jamie Mason

March 16, 2013

As far as I can tell, most stories are crime stories. Sure, there are some romances where nothing but hearts are stolen, and you can get a good way through the picture book section of the library before somebody does something bad, but crime as the catalyst for an interesting tale is the shortest distance…

Mads Mikkelsen will play the murderous Dr. Lecter on NBC's Hannibal

Is NBC’s Hannibal “Following” the Leader?

By Crime HQ

February 19, 2013

Watch this trailer and see! Okay, okay—it’s not a completely fair question, since both NBC’s Hannibal and Fox’s The Following (which we’re currently recapping) were announced last year. And of course, Dr. Lecter’s a notorious character from way back. However, both new shows do center on serial killing by multiple killers, as well as intricate…

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