Neil Nyren

Con Jobs and Falling Bodies in “Fake Money, Blue Smoke”

“So, I have a business proposition for you.” The speaker in Josh Haven’s Fake Money, Blue Smoke (Mysterious Press) is Kelly Haggerty, and she’s just picked up a man named Matt Kubelsky from the Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution in upstate New York. Matt’s been in there for killing an unarmed…

Neil NyrenNovember 28, 2022

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A Reality Survival Show Becomes a Little Too Real in “Small Game”

Ashley wanted to be famous. That’s not an insult, it’s the truth … Kyle was an Eagle Scout, which meant a lot to him, although none of the others pretended to care … Bullfrog was a real anarchist type, old-school. The kind who wouldn’t call it anarchy, just country living…

Neil NyrenOctober 28, 2022

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The Devil’s in the Details in This Psychological Thriller Meets Heart-Wrenching Family Drama

"You already have a lot of ideas about Hell. It’s amazing what Dante and thousands of years of folklore can do to a place’s reputation… On the top floors... it’s not the fire and brimstone thing you think it might be. It’s music that’s too loud, food that’s too rubbery,…

Neil NyrenSeptember 30, 2022

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A Lesson in Fear From Someone Who Knows

In Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher and the Wren (Zando), a man named Jeremy knows all of that very well. A second-year medical student at Tulane University, his interests in experimentation go way beyond anything he’s been taught in class. His father’s advice echoes in his mind: “You want to learn…

Neil NyrenAugust 26, 2022

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Crime, Character, the Supernatural – a Navajo Takes Back Her Story

Souls don’t scatter like the rest of the body. They latch on for as long as they can, their legs pulled to the sky, fingertips white in desperation. Souls are grasping for us, for the ones they left behind, and for the truth only they can see. They are the…

Neil NyrenJuly 29, 2022

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A Private Detective in a Real-Life Noir

In movies and even in books lawyers are always warning people not to confess to them, but in real life it doesn’t work that way. In real life you want to hear everything you can and later on you’ll make whatever compromises you have to, or you won’t. That’s the…

Neil NyrenJune 24, 2022

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An Affair Becomes a Marriage, Becomes a Murder in “More Than You’ll Ever Know”

For every story told out loud, there is the story we only tell ourselves. And behind that – somewhere, out of reach – is the truth. The trick is telling them apart. The speaker in Katie Gutierrez’s More Than You’ll Ever Know is Cassie Bowman, a writer who grew up…

Neil NyrenMay 27, 2022

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Priest, Bride, Haunted Hacienda Sweep Readers Into Spellbinding 19th-Century Mexico

The speaker in Isabel Cañas’ remarkable blend of suspense, horror, romance and supernatural gothic, The Hacienda (Berkley), is Beatriz, 20, the new bride of a rich Mexican landowner named Don Rodolfo. The year is 1823, shortly after the bloody Mexican War of Independence, and Beatriz’s family had the misfortune of…

Neil NyrenApril 29, 2022

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Don’t Call Her a Sociopath: Emmy-Nominated Screenwriter on Her Very Reasonable Murderess

One murder every ten years seemed extremely reasonable. We all encounter bad people all the time. Backstabbing coworkers. Assholes who litter. Fathers who hit. Mothers who neglect. People who run puppy mills. And on and on. But I was not in the business of killing off every jerk who crossed…

Neil NyrenMarch 25, 2022

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Clearly We “Don’t Know Tough”, Because “Friday Night Lights” Was Never Like This

In Eli Cranor’s searing Southern Gothic Don’t Know Tough (Soho Crime), three people at the ends of their ropes form an uneasy alliance – until it all blows up. Trent Powers is the new coach of the high school football team in Denton, Arkansas, “a small town nestled in the…

Neil NyrenFebruary 25, 2022

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In Glittering Berlin, Thrilling Obsessions Make Fiction and Reality Collide

The young woman speaking in Calla Henkel’s Other People’s Clothes (Doubleday) is Zoe Beech, an American art student who has fled to Berlin in 2008 for any number of reasons. She doesn’t know who she is and she hates the school she’s in now, which revolves around toxic masculinity: “In…

Neil NyrenJanuary 28, 2022

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Father’s Murderous Mementos Haunt Psychologist as Suspected Copycat Emerges

I thought I knew what monsters were. monsters didn’t hide in the woods; they weren’t shadows in the trees or invisible things lurking in darkened corners. No, the real monsters moved in plain sight. The speaker in Stacy Willingham’s A Flicker in the Dark (Minotaur Books) is Chloe Davis. She…

Neil NyrenDecember 31, 2021

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A Police Transcriber Finds the Real Thing Too Close to Home

“This job is violent and graphic in nature. You’ll have to listen to accounts of things that are … traumatic … to say the least. It’s not for everyone.” “Good thing I’m not everyone.” In Hannah Morrissey’s Hello, Transcriber (Minotaur Books), Hazel Greenlee, 26, has just been hired as a…

Neil NyrenNovember 26, 2021

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A Young Surrogate Mother Has Last-Minute Second Thoughts

“Hold on, just hold on,” I said to the duffel bag, willing it not to jiggle, not to whimper. In my head I called her Nell, even though the contract said the intended parents would have sole naming rights...” In Toni Halleen’s The Surrogate, (Harper Collins) it is the middle…

Neil NyrenOctober 29, 2021

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Former CIA Analyst Integrates Espionage, Love and Betrayal in Gripping Thriller “Damascus Station”

He was midway through a cup of booza, an elastic Levantine ice cream, and nursing a bottle of water when the mind games started. He’d executed the tradecraft perfectly, he thought. Or had he? Had the woman buying ice cream been the same woman from the jewelry store? Had the…

Neil NyrenSeptember 24, 2021

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Nightmares Follow Her Halfway Around the World in “My Sweet Girl”

My hands were trembling slightly… I hate how they do that when I’m angry. I hate it when I’m angry. It makes it hard to think straight. And I needed to think straight right now. I couldn’t have that cunning, two-faced soon-to-be-ex-roommate of mine getting in my head … I…

Neil NyrenAugust 27, 2021

Neil Nyren

A Reality Survival Show Becomes a Little Too Real in “Small Game”

The Devil’s in the Details in This Psychological Thriller Meets Heart-Wrenching Family Drama

A Lesson in Fear From Someone Who Knows

Crime, Character, the Supernatural – a Navajo Takes Back Her Story

A Private Detective in a Real-Life Noir

An Affair Becomes a Marriage, Becomes a Murder in “More Than You’ll Ever Know”

Priest, Bride, Haunted Hacienda Sweep Readers Into Spellbinding 19th-Century Mexico

Don’t Call Her a Sociopath: Emmy-Nominated Screenwriter on Her Very Reasonable Murderess

Clearly We “Don’t Know Tough”, Because “Friday Night Lights” Was Never Like This

In Glittering Berlin, Thrilling Obsessions Make Fiction and Reality Collide

Father’s Murderous Mementos Haunt Psychologist as Suspected Copycat Emerges

A Police Transcriber Finds the Real Thing Too Close to Home

A Young Surrogate Mother Has Last-Minute Second Thoughts

Former CIA Analyst Integrates Espionage, Love and Betrayal in Gripping Thriller “Damascus Station”

Nightmares Follow Her Halfway Around the World in “My Sweet Girl”

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