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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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Ashley Audrain on the Dark Side of Motherhood in “The Push”

“One day you’ll understand, Blythe. The women in this family…we’re different.” The woman talking in Ashley Audrain’s scorching novel The Push (Pamela Dorman Books) is Blythe Connor’s mother, Cecilia. Cecilia’s mother, Etta, hung herself at the age of thirty-two. Cecilia herself left the family when Blythe was only eleven. “I don’t…
Neil Nyren
December 25, 2020
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Vigilante Seeks Justice in Native Author’s Crime Novel, “Winter Counts”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Winter-Counts.jpg "A propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book." — Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman “A marvel.  A thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth ... I couldn’t put it down.” — Tommy Orange, author of There There —∞— On South Dakota’s Rosebud Reservation, Virgil Wounded Horse waits…
Neil Nyren
August 28, 2020

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