Neil Nyren

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

Fiction Thrillers

A Māori Cop and Murders That Are All Too Personal

“If you want to achieve mental clarity, if you seek nothingness, become a Buddhist monk. For fuck sake don’t decide to be a career cop.” Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman knows this all too well. In Michael Bennett’s Better the Blood (Atlantic Monthly Press), Westerman, a Māori cop in Auckland,…

Neil NyrenJanuary 3, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

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

Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

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

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

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