Neil Nyren

Little Deaths and Big Deaths: A Gothic Mystery Through a Modern Lens

“The way I see it, in any good life you need to die several times to really lead a life worth living. There are little deaths and there are big deaths. My tale has both – and the real tragedy would be if this story were to die with me.…

Neil NyrenApril 26, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Two Women Search for Justice – It’s Not What They Expect

I was on fire. I’d never felt this sort of rage before, the kind that blinds, the kind that was sinking itself into my skin, over and over and over. The speaker in Sara Koffi’s While We Were Burning (G.P. Putnam's Sons) is Elizabeth Smith, and her life is falling…

Neil NyrenMarch 29, 2024

Thrillers

A Local Newscaster Finds Her New Story Hits Too Close to Home

“When most people think of Larry Lemmon, they remember the guy who called for a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border long before Donald Trump did. When I think of Larry Lemmon, I remember a guy who cut my lunch – and nearly my life – short.” In Christina Estes’ Off…

Neil NyrenFebruary 23, 2024

Everyone who can Forgive me is Dead by Jenny Hollander

Thrillers

Which is Most Dangerous? What We Remember – Or What We Forget?

“Everyone who was there, or pretends they were, says the same thing: the tabloids got it wrong. But they didn’t, not really. “The articles said: Charlotte Colbert escaped unscathed. Which is true. While the others were in surgery or stretched out in the morgue, I was in the shower, scrubbing…

Neil NyrenJanuary 26, 2024

Thrillers

Crime Made Her Life a Spectacle — Then It Got Worse

“I had always thought of my memory as something like a historical record. Evidence. “Now, I’m not so sure. Now, I have a new appreciation for the unreliable narrator. Now, I understand how a normal person could go mad. It takes one tug at one thread, and the whole illusion…

Neil NyrenDecember 29, 2023

Thrillers

A Theater Critic in the Performance of Her Life – and Maybe Her Death

I know what happens when I involve myself. When I allow myself to feel without limit. Bad things. Dangerous things. In Alexis Soloski’s Here in the Dark (Flatiron), Vivian Parry is a former actress and now junior theater critic for a New York magazine. She has secrets in her past,…

Neil NyrenNovember 24, 2023

Thrillers

Female FBI Agent Faces the Challenge of a Lifetime in International Thriller

The pilot pointed. “See that hole in the wall behind you?” Alex turned to look. “One of those bullets must have hit the transmission fluid line.” “How much time do we have?” “I need to set down now.” “Not an option. Do you know what’s in the van?” “Yes, ma’am.…

Neil NyrenOctober 30, 2023

Fiction

Everyone is a Suspect at Isolated Hunting Lodge in Irresistible Murder Mystery

The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, concealing revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth. So begins Dann McDorman’s West Heart Kill, and it is a murder mystery like none other. All the classic ingredients are here: corpses…

Neil NyrenSeptember 29, 2023

Fiction

Three Generations of Women Unite to Find a Killer

Lana Rubicon lay sprawled on the dark slate floor of her kitchen, wondering how she got there. Her interest was not philosophical. She didn’t want to know how she’d arrived on this planet or which of her Greek ancestors had blessed her with wrinkle-proof skin. She wanted to know why…

Neil NyrenAugust 25, 2023

Thrillers

A Murder He Didn’t Commit – A Conspiracy He Couldn’t Imagine

I’m trying to piece together what my father was doing before he died – who he was seeing, what he was working on. I need to know who killed him. I have to prove it wasn’t me or Sami. In Megan Davis’s The Messenger, a young Parisian named Alex Giraud…

Neil NyrenJuly 28, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Debut Author Alex Hay Talks Heists, London Setting and Finding a Publisher

“I hope you’re watching from heaven, she said inwardly, looking at the portrait. Or wherever you’ve landed. I hope you see it all play out. I hope they pin your eyes open so you have to watch what I do to this house.” London, 1905. The woman talking in Alex…

Neil NyrenJune 30, 2023

Thrillers

A Chilling Tale of a Serial Killer Told by Those Closest to Him

He told me about her before we moved. A friend of a friend of a friend is what he said. Whatever…I wasn’t dying to make friends with some random woman anyway. But that wouldn’t have been nice. And my dad, he’s a nice person. No, he’s not. The girl speaking…

Neil NyrenMay 26, 2023

Thrillers

A Spy’s Last Tour Does Not Go As Expected

I had no marketable skills, no human attachment worth the name, no life alternatives. All I had to do was gut out the remainder of my tour the way I’d managed to gut out all my tours – quietly, neither glaringly successful nor unsuccessful, a near-invisible piece of flotsam carried…

Neil NyrenApril 28, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

A Survival Expert Gets More Than He Bargained For

I’m doing this for my family. I’m doing this to be with them again. I’m serving my country. But none of that may be enough to get Derek Harrington out of a very, very bad situation. In T. R. Hendricks’ The Instructor (Forge Books), Harrington is a retired 22-years-in Marine…

Neil NyrenMarch 31, 2023

Fiction

Three Women, Centuries Apart, Cast Their Spell

Footsteps. Then, the wrench of metal on metal as the bolt was drawn back … They had come to take me to trial. ~ Altha, 1619 ~ Kate is staring into the mirror when she hears it. The key scraping in the lock … Panic flutters in her, like…

Neil NyrenFebruary 24, 2023

Fiction

A Young, Tatted-Up Nun Takes On Murder

We’re always there, us nuns, to witness, to hold space for miracles in the terror, in the boredom, in the wretched gore of life. To take it in, watch your hands tremble, validate your questions, honor your pain. You never see us seeing you. Nuns are slippery like that. The…

Neil NyrenJanuary 27, 2023

Neil Nyren

Little Deaths and Big Deaths: A Gothic Mystery Through a Modern Lens

Debut Author Alex Hay Talks Heists, London Setting and Finding a Publisher

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