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Neil Nyren

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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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 Nyren
August 25, 2023
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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 Nyren
April 28, 2023
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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 Nyren
January 27, 2023