I’ve found myself quitting more books recently or getting frustrated. I’ve been re-reading more and more books. And you know what? That’s okay. I’ve been reading thrillers because I want to improve my own writing and storytelling and I think quitting books that aren’t helping me with that is a better recipe for success. Read a lot. Quit a lot. Read the best ones twice.

Okay, let’s get to it.

Here are 3 crime fiction links, 2 quotes, and 1 question for this week:

3 LINKS

• THE PLOT is building to be the first big “It” book of the summer. Most of the reviews have been gushing positive. If you want one that offers a different perspective then NPR finds that the many grace notes of THE PLOT can’t overcome the accompanying pedestrian passages.
  
  
• Not an angle I’ve come across before: the lust for property as primary plot driver in Tana French mystery novels.
  
  
• If you haven’t been following along to the long and twisting tale of both novel and film, EW has a timeline on the history of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW.

2 QUOTES

Two from Tana French this week:

• “I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.”
• “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this — two things: I crave truth. And I lie.”

1 QUESTION

• Do you have a favorite thriller or mystery adaptation that made you actually love the book or series more? No Country for Old Men comes to mind for me.

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Until next Thursday, happy reading,

Mike

Author the Max Strong thriller series