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Birds of Prey Don't Sing: an L.A. assassination thriller
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I did lots of hands on-research and interviews in trying to create a realistic world for Birds of Prey Don’t Sing, and none was more fascinating than my visit to the LA Coroner on Mission Road. Among other things, while we worked through my prepared questions, the Captain received several phone calls. One was from the TV series CSI, with questions about the condition of a corpse—CSI basically call
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"This well-plotted thriller held my attention from start to finish. Meticulously plotted, the author made me unsure whether to root for the assassin to be caught or to escape, especially as the detective was also a sympathetic character in many ways. "
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| There are a handful of novels that I consider top-notch assassin thrillers, those that check the box for both writing and plot. And number one with a gun is Frederick Forsyth’s Day of the Jackal, for several reasons. First of all, unlike pretty much ...more | |
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We need to talk about The Collector. “Silence of the Lambs”, “Kiss the Girls”, and so on, they all owe their existence to The Collector. Fowles started the genre, or at the very least elevated it and changed it. Make no mistake, Fowles was writing li ...more |
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