Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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When the Author Expires but the Series Continues
Lucy Foley, the British crime writer, recently announced that she has been selected to write new Miss Marple novels. The first in a planned series will be out in Fall 2026, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Sleeping Murder, the final Agatha Christie Marple novel. As it happens, I’m finishing up the BBC adaptation…
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Erotic Thrillers: Why Babygirl Is Neither, but Fatal Attraction Remains Relevant
Shouldn’t erotic thrillers have a murder? Or at least an accidental death that needs to be covered up? It doesn’t need to be investigated (as in Basic Instinct), but surely the stakes need to be high? I’m thinking of Fatal Attraction, which spawned a thousand jokes about boiling bunnies. It’s straight-forward misogyny, but it’s an…
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Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy
“Nature’s in turmoil. Anything can happen.” Ruth Zardo, The Cruellest Month “Whan that Aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote. . . .” Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Penny borrows the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as the title of her third Three…
