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Neil Nyren

Neil Nyren is the former evp, associate publisher, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and the winner of the 2017 Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Among the writers of crime and suspense he has edited are Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, John Sandford, C. J. Box, Robert Crais, Carl Hiaasen, Daniel Silva, Jack Higgins, Frederick Forsyth, Ken Follett, Jonathan Kellerman, Ed McBain and Ace Atkins. He now writes about crime fiction and publishing for CrimeReads, BookTrib, The Big Thrill, and The Third Degree, among others, and is a contributing writer to the Anthony/Agatha/Macavity-winning How to Write a Mystery.

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Neil Nyren

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Uncover Dark Secrets in Chilling Crime Novel

“When everything was drenched in sleep, Ava knew it was time. She eased out of bed, and when her feet touched the floor she became still … The trick at night was to banish all thoughts and let instincts govern. She must be stealthy and quick: the Small Hours were…
Neil Nyren
October 25, 2024
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A Girl Disappears. The Aftershocks Do Not.

“People don’t just disappear. Of course they don’t. They take up too much space in the world. They are pounds of flesh, gallons of blood. Teeth, bones, fingernails. It all has to go somewhere.” In Sarah Sawyer’s The Undercurrent, it is 2011, but it might as well be 1987. That…
Neil Nyren
September 27, 2024
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She’s Not a Killer – She’s Karma

“Serial killer. I loathed those words. They weren’t fair – not when used against me. Had I made those men disappear? Okay. Yes – but I dealt in karma – not murder. It wasn’t like I skulked around, killing randos.” As Emma C. Wells’ This Girl’s a Killer opens, Cordelia…
Neil Nyren
August 30, 2024
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A Comet Brings Secrets, Love, Obsession, Death

“The woman I was back then could never have foreseen what was coming, and I can’t reach back into the past to warn her.” Sylvia Knight, 32, the narrator of Ruby Todd’s Bright Objects, finally thinks she knows what to do. The funeral home she works for in a small…
Neil Nyren
June 28, 2024