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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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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
Thrillers

“All That’s Bright and Gone” on the Hunt for a Killer

A bit more than confused, though. When we first meet Aoife Scott, age six, in All That’s Bright and Gone (Crooked Lane Books), she’s waiting to see a child therapist, because her mother’s just had a public breakdown, and now they’re keeping Mama someplace and won’t let her come home. Aoife doesn’t know…
Neil Nyren
November 27, 2019
Thrillers

Welcome to “The House of Brides,” a Modern Gothic

“There” is Barnsley House, a rambling estate turned into a hotel in the West Country of England, and the subject of an enormously bestselling book called The House of Brides. It chronicles the generations of women who married into the infamous Summer family. From crime novelist Gertrude, who threw herself…
Neil Nyren
September 25, 2019
Thrillers

The Boy in the Floor, the Whisper at the Window

One of the quotes for Alex North’s The Whisper Man (Celadon) calls it a “seamless blend of Harlan Coben, Stephen King, and Thomas Harris.” I’d say that’s just about right. Novelist Tom Kennedy and his seven-year-old son Jake are both still grieving the death of the boy’s mother, Rebecca. Everything…
Neil Nyren
July 29, 2019
Thrillers

Blood on the Page: Chanelle Benz’s “The Gone Dead”

In Chanelle Benz’s The Gone Dead (Ecco), the dead aren’t really gone. Billie James has returned to the dilapidated house in Greendale, Mississippi, where her father, a renowned black poet, lived. She hasn’t seen it in thirty years. “She had forgotten about the house, figured it’d been knocked down forever…
Neil Nyren
June 24, 2019