Posts Tagged: In the Woods

The Fantasy of the Femme Fatale

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I couldn’t help but see these women-led stories as missed opportunities.

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Tangled Detectives

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While the novels’ detective protagonists pick their way with varying success through a maze of vexing people and circumstances, readers navigates their own tangled maze of contradictory conventions as the narratives hop from genre to genre, toying with readers’ expectations. Over at The Millions, Tim Wirkus explores the labyrinth of Tana French’s intricate Dublin Murder Squad […]

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The Last Book I Loved: In The Woods

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I’m not a fan of murder mysteries. Truth is, I just don’t care why someone murdered someone else. Plus there’s the violence (grisly), the sex (cop-on-cop, cop-on-suspect), the conventional motives (jealousy, insanity, payback for molestation), the handful of suspects (lover, neighbor, father), and the revelation that it was…whomever. I don’t care. Perhaps, then, I’m exactly […]

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