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Alberto Guerra, Edward James Olmos, Billy Burke & Sônia Braga Join Peacock’s Crime Thriller ‘M.I.A.’

Shannon Gısela

Peacock’s upcoming South Florida-set crime drama MIA has added Alberto Guerra (Griselda, The Accident) as a series regular, alongside guest stars Edward James Olmos, Billy Burke, and Sônia Braga. They join an ensemble that includes Shannon Gisela, Brittany Adebumola, Dylan Jackson, Maurice Compte, Danay Garcia, Cary Elwes, Gerardo Celasco, and Marta Milans. Created by Ozark’s…

Exclusive Interview: Jo Nesbo

I want to start with the Harry Hole series. This is the 12th book and we cannot get enough of them. What are your future plans for Harry Hole? Jo Nesbo: I cannot tell you (laughing). It is sort of the part of the tradition of the genre. You can’t really tell how many books…

The Evolution of the Detective in Crime Novels and Short Stories

Paul Auster, Truman Capote and Nero Wolfe

1. In the Beginning Was the Crime In the last months of his life, Italian writer Andrea Camilleri reminded us, through the intense pages of his Autodifesa di Caino (Cain’s self-defense, 2019), that crime has existed since the very beginnings of the human race. Not only that – crime is a multifaceted phenomenon, not to…

Masters of Murder: Meeting Hitchcock and Highsmith

What are the virtues of attaining late middle age in the early 21st century? Are there any? Well… for males, there’s better life expectancy than our fathers had — mine didn’t even make it to my age, but then his high-cholesterol, low-exercise lifestyle didn’t exactly lend itself to longevity (wine apart, I’m hoping that mine…

The Mom Thriller: A New Subgenre Explores the Trials of Motherhood

“A New Crop of Mom Thrillers Taps Into Our Worst Fears” declared an essay by Jen Gann published in February 2018. I had been trolling for information about crime fiction from the mother’s perspective to help shed light on my approach to three suspense novels by Argentine author Claudia Piñeiro that featured mothers who had…