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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
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Crime fiction
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Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other such as historical fiction or science fiction. Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including fiction, courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are ubiquitous to the genre. In Italy people commonly call a story about detectives or crimes giallo, better known are the earlier dark works of Edgar Allan Poe. Wilkie Collins epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, french author Émile Gaboriaus Monsieur Lecoq laid the groundwork for the methodical, scientifically minded detective. The evolution of locked room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction, the Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. A precursor was Paul Féval, whose series Les Habits Noirs features Scotland Yard detectives, the best-selling crime novel of the nineteenth century was Fergus Humes The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, Australia. The evolution of the print mass media in the United Kingdom, like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day—e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens—Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom. Later a set of stereotypic formulae began to appear to cater to various tastes, Crime fiction can be divided into the following four branches, The cozy mystery, a subgenre of detective fiction in which profanity, sex, and violence are downplayed or treated humorously. The whodunit, the most common form of detective fiction, the historical whodunnit, also a subgenre of historical fiction. The police procedural, the detective is a member of the police, the forensic crime fiction, similar to the police procedural. The detective the reader follows is usually a medical examiner or pathologist—they must use the evidence left on the body. This subgenre was first introduced by Patricia Cornwell, the legal thriller, the major characters are lawyers and their employees, and they become involved in proving their cases. The spy novel, the characters are spies, usually working for an intelligence agency. The caper story and the novel, the stories are told from the point of view of the criminals. The parody or spoof When trying to pigeon-hole fiction, it is difficult to tell where crime fiction starts
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Lawyer
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A lawyer is a person who practices law, as an advocate, barrister, attorney, counselor or solicitor or chartered legal executive. The role of the lawyer varies greatly across legal jurisdictions, in practice, legal jurisdictions exercise their right to determine who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the lawyer may vary from place to place. In Australia, the lawyer is used to refer to both barristers and solicitors. In Canada, the word lawyer refers to individuals who have been called to the bar or. Common law lawyers in Canada are formally and properly called barristers and solicitors, however, in Quebec, civil law advocates often call themselves attorney and sometimes barrister and solicitor in English. The Legal Services Act 2007 defines the activities that may only be performed by a person who is entitled to do so pursuant to the Act. Lawyer is not a protected title, in India, the term lawyer is often colloquially used, but the official term is advocate as prescribed under the Advocates Act,1961. In Scotland, the word refers to a more specific group of legally trained people. It specifically includes advocates and solicitors, in a generic sense, it may also include judges and law-trained support staff. In the United States, the term refers to attorneys who may practice law. It is never used to refer to patent agents or paralegals, in fact, there are regulatory restrictions on non-lawyers like paralegals practicing law. Other nations tend to have terms for the analogous concept. In most countries, particularly civil law countries, there has been a tradition of giving many legal tasks to a variety of civil law notaries, clerks, and scriveners. Several countries that originally had two or more legal professions have since fused or united their professions into a type of lawyer. Most countries in this category are common law countries, though France, in countries with fused professions, a lawyer is usually permitted to carry out all or nearly all the responsibilities listed below. Arguing a clients case before a judge or jury in a court of law is the province of the barrister in England. However, the boundary between barristers and solicitors has evolved, in England today, the barrister monopoly covers only appellate courts, and barristers must compete directly with solicitors in many trial courts
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William Bernhardt
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William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his Ben Kincaid series of books. Bernhardt has sold more than 10 million books in the US and he has been nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award seventeen times in three different categories and has twice won, in 1995 and 1999. In 1998 he received the Southern Writers Guilds Gold Medal Award, in 2000, he was honored with the H. That same year, he was presented with a Career Achievement Award at the 2000 Booklovers Convention in Houston and he has also been inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. In 2009, he received the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award from the University of Scranton and his poetry has received two Pushcart Prize nominations and an Oklahoma Book Award nomination. He has also received a Certificate of Recognition from the American Academy of American Poets, Bernhardt is best known for his series of novels featuring idealistic attorney Ben Kincaid. Library Journal called him the master of the courtroom drama and he has also written several novels outside the series, including the nonfiction novel Nemesis, The Final Case of Eliot Ness. His other series character, Susan Pulaski, appears in the novels Dark Eye, Bernhardt is also one of the nations most in-demand writing instructors. He founded the Red Sneaker Writing Center, which hosts a writing workshop each year in Oklahoma. He also provides a free Red Sneaker e-newsletter and a free Red Sneaker phone app which he updates regularly with a blog on writing and he has also written the nonfiction Red Sneaker series on writing. In addition to his work as a writer and teacher, Bernhardt and his published books. He has published books by acclaimed authors such as Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist N. Scott Momaday, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Janis Ian, the primary focus of the company, however, has been to provide a publishing venue for the unpublished. Bernhardt published the first novel by P. C, cast, now known for her highly successful House of Night series of young adult novels. He is on the Board of Directors for the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, a former trial attorney, Bernhardt has received several awards for his pro bono work and public service. In 1994, Barrister Magazine named him one of the top 25 young lawyers in America and he lives in Oklahoma with his wife, Lara Bernhardt, the novelist and audiobook narrator, and their children. On October 10,2013, Bernhardt became a Jeopardy, champion, fulfilling a lifelong dream of appearing on that quiz show
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Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus Harry Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have translated into 39 languages, have garnered him many awards. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004, Connelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second oldest child of W. Michael Connelly, a property developer, and Mary Connelly, a homemaker. According to Connelly, his father was a frustrated artist who encouraged his children to want to succeed in life and was a risk taker who alternated success with failure in his pursuit of a career. Connellys mother was a fan of crime fiction and introduced her son to the world of mystery novels, at age 12, Connelly moved with his family from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School. At age 16, Connelly’s interest in crime and mystery escalated when, on his way home from his work as a hotel dishwasher, Connelly, curious, decided to investigate and found that the object was a gun wrapped in a lumberjack shirt. After putting the gun back, he followed the man to a bar, later that night, Connelly brought the police down to the bar, but the man was already gone. This event introduced Connelly to the world of police officers and their lives, impressing him with the investigators’ hard faces, Connelly had planned on following his father’s early choice of career in building construction and started out at the University of Florida in Gainesville as a building construction major. After earning grades that were lower than expected, Connelly went to see Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye and was enchanted by what he saw, the film, based on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel of the same name, inspired Connelly to want to become a mystery writer. He was a student of Harry Crews, there, he covered the crime beat during the South Florida cocaine wars, an era that brought with it much violence and murder. The honor also brought Connelly a job as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He moved to California in 1987 with his wife Linda McCaleb, after moving to Los Angeles, Connelly went to see the High Tower Apartments where Raymond Chandlers famous character, Philip Marlowe, had lived, and Robert Altman had filmed. Connelly got the manager of the building to promise to him if the apartment ever became available. Ten years later, the manager tracked Connelly down, and Connelly decided to rent the place and this apartment served as a place to write for several years, but its value derived more from nostalgia than comfort. After three years at the Los Angeles Times, Connelly wrote his first published novel, The Black Echo and he sold The Black Echo to Little, Brown to be published in 1992 and won the Mystery Writers of Americas Edgar Award for best first novel. Connelly describes his own work as a big canvas with all the characters of his books floating across it as currents on a painting, sometimes they are bound to collide, creating cross currents. This is something that Connelly creates by bringing back characters from previous books, Connelly went on to write three more novels about Detective Bosch — The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, and The Last Coyote — before quitting his job as a reporter to write full-time. Harry Bosch and Connelly received a deal of publicity in 1994
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Marcia Clark
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Marcia Rachel Clark is an American prosecutor, author, and television correspondent. She was the prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case. Clark was born in Alameda, California, the daughter of Rozlyn Kleks and Abraham Kleks and she was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. She has a brother by six years who became an engineer. Due to Abrahams job with the FDA, the family moved many times, living in California, New York, Michigan and Maryland. She graduated from Susan E. Wagner High School, a high school in the Manor Heights section of Staten Island, New York City. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976 with a degree in political science, Clark was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1979. She was in practice and worked as a public defender for the city of Los Angeles before becoming a prosecutor in 1981. She worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, California, Clark is best remembered as the lead prosecutor in the 1995 trial seeking to convict O. J. Simpson for the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Prior to this trial, her prosecution was in 1991. In his book Outrage, The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder, Clark said that the media attention she received during the trial was the hell of the trial, calling herself famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. Initially described as grim, humorless, even angry by the media, Clark was advised by a consultant to talk softer, dress softer. She subsequently received a permanent wave, and the Los Angeles Times described her as looking like Sigourney Weaver, the New York Times commented that The transformation was not entirely seamless. At times Ms. Clark lurched between her new and former self, showing signs of formality and stiffness. Resigning after the O. J. Simpson case, Clark left trial practice behind, with Teresa Carpenter, she wrote a book about the Simpson case, Without a Doubt, in a deal reported to be worth $4.2 million. Since the Simpson trial, Clark has made appearances on television including being a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. She provided coverage of trials and reported from the red carpet at awards shows such as the Emmy Awards. She was a guest attorney on the television series Power of Attorney and was also featured on Headline News
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Vish Dhamija
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Vish Dhamija is a British Indian crime-fiction writer who lives in the UK. He is frequently referred to in the press as the master of legal crime, in a survey by eBooks India website, Vish Dhamija was listed along the top 51 Indian authors you must follow. Dhamija grew up in Ajmer, Rajasthan, where he spent the first twenty years of his life and he attended St. Anselms School, a convent school in Ajmer established by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Fortunatus Henry Caumont O. F. M. in 1904, Dhamija dropped out of law school after his first year, and then attended Jodhpur University for a degree in Management. After a few years of working in the world in India, he left for Manchester Business School in the UK for an MBA in Marketing. In school, Dhamija was very active in literary and stage activities and he was the lead actor in most of the plays hosted in school. He was also captain of the house, Dhamijas first book, Nothing Lasts Forever, was published in 2010 by Srishti Publishers, it was long-listed for Vodafone-Crossword Book Award 2011. A crime thriller, the book is based in the locality of Worli in Mumbai. The setting of the book is Bhendi Bazaar in south Mumbai, since it was first published, the book has remained on Amazon Indias Top 100 list for Crime, Thriller, and Mystery and has been noted for its ingenuous plot and rich characters. Dhamija has said in interviews that crime fiction, which is mainly what he reads, is the genre in which he can imagine himself writing for the time being. In August 2015, Déjà Karma became a bestseller and was featured on both The Financial Express and Crossword Bookstores lists for two consecutive weeks. His next book, Doosra – The Other One was released in Feb 2016, Dhamijas fifth book - Nothing Else Matters was launched at the Kumaon Literary Festival in October. In November it reached number 6 on WH Smith charts on both, domestic and internation airports in New Delhi, bloggers rated it as one of the top 10 books by Indian authors in 2016 and top 10 romance novels of 2016 by Iindian authors. Harper Collins india will be releasing Dhamijas next book, Unlawful Justice in mid-2017 and he and his wife, Nidhi live in the UK
