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Frederick Forsyth: An Editor’s Remembrance

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Neil Nyren

I became Frederick Forsyth’s editor late in his career; his sales had dipped a bit since the brilliant successes of books like The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File; and his agent hoped we could pep them up. Article continues after advertisementFor our first manuscript, The Afghan, in 2006, Freddie had a request: Could I fly to London and meet with him and his British editor? That way, we could not only meet, but he would end up with just one set of notes.
Chris Chibnall’s “Death at the White Hart” Delivers a Killer Debut

4 weeks ago | booktrib.com | Neil Nyren

Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall "Death at the White Hart is an extraordinary debut novel, filled with atmosphere and layered mystery and characters that live and breathe and leap off the page." “His eyes drifted back to the road, a shocking state of panic –— something in the middle of the road —— you’re going to hit it!…Slam. Jolt. Stop. Breathe. The bodywork ticked and creaked in protest at the emergency halt.
Sue Hincenbergs’ Debut Novel Isn’t Your Everyday Retirement Plan

2 months ago | booktrib.com | Neil Nyren

The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs “Watching, Pam sensed something shift in the night air. As she cleared the dishes, she looked around the table at her husband and the friends they’d made three decades ago, and wondered again, which of them would die first.
Coram House by Bailey Seybolt

Mar 28, 2025 | booktrib.com | Neil Nyren

Coram House by Bailey Seybolt "Coram House is a haunted — and haunting — novel, with an ending you will not see coming." “That’s the thing you have to understand. The years we spent there. You can leave Coram House, but you can’t leave it behind. Not all of it. The worst of it you carry with you. It becomes part of you.
A Debut Author with “Killer Potential” Talks Writing Process and Getting Published

Feb 28, 2025 | booktrib.com | Neil Nyren

Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch “I was once a famous murderess. I killed a wealthy family, Manson-style, and then I went on the run. But my thing wasn’t about starting a race war to reach the land of milk and honey or secretly wanting to be a Beatle. According to the news, I was just another fame-hungry killer, desperate to carve my face on the Mount Rushmore of great American psychopaths. “It isn’t true, but still: the former-murderess thing is a fun line.
Booktrib Spotlight: Kristin Koval

Feb 14, 2025 | thebigthrill.org | Neil Nyren |Elizabeth Crowens |Tracey Devlyn |Laura McCluskey

By Neil Nyren“Nora Sheehan sits in a jail cell in Lodgepole, Colorado, surrounded by three cinderblock walls and the kind of steel bars she’s only seen on television, gray and cold. She’s thirteen, the woman she might become still a shadow even though she’s ready to discard her childhood.
Murder, Secrets and the Long Road Back in Snowy Legal Novel

Jan 31, 2025 | booktrib.com | Neil Nyren

Penitence by Kristin Koval “Nora Sheehan sits in a jail cell in Lodgepole, Colorado, surrounded by three cinderblock walls and the kind of steel bars she’s only seen on television, gray and cold. She’s thirteen, the woman she might become still a shadow even though she’s ready to discard her childhood.
In the search for lost women, a marshal finds herself

Jan 27, 2025 | thebrunswicknews.com | Neil Nyren

In Laurie L. Dove's "Mask of the Deer Woman," Carrie Starr has hit rock bottom. A former Chicago police officer, she lost her job after her daughter was murdered and she emptied her gun into the back of the fleeing man she held responsible. Now, drinking and toking just to get through the day, she's started the only job she could find, as tribal marshal on the reservation where her father once lived.
In the search for lost women, a marshal finds herself

Jan 27, 2025 | mahoningmatters.com | Neil Nyren

In Laurie L. Dove's "Mask of the Deer Woman," Carrie Starr has hit rock bottom. A former Chicago police officer, she lost her job after her daughter was murdered and she emptied her gun into the back of the fleeing man she held responsible. Now, drinking and toking just to get through the day, she's started the only job she could find, as tribal marshal on the reservation where her father once lived.
In the search for lost women, a marshal finds herself

Jan 27, 2025 | sacbee.com | Neil Nyren

In Laurie L. Dove's "Mask of the Deer Woman," Carrie Starr has hit rock bottom. A former Chicago police officer, she lost her job after her daughter was murdered and she emptied her gun into the back of the fleeing man she held responsible. Now, drinking and toking just to get through the day, she's started the only job she could find, as tribal marshal on the reservation where her father once lived.