I’ve rounded up a bunch of things to know if you’re a mystery fan, from exciting adaptation news to Louise Penny announcing a U.S. boycott!
Super Excited!
Robert De Niro to star in thriller adaptation!
Alex North’s The Whisper Man is getting the Netflix film adaptation treatment with Robert De Niro to star. Since it’s still in the development stage and we’re just getting the announcements (Robert De Niro Is Hunting Down The Whisper Man), you have plenty of time to read the book, which is for fans of fictional serial killers, past and present mysteries, and father-son relationships.
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A sequel!
If you are of a certain generation, Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game may have been a big part of your mystery-loving childhood. And, it may be one of those books you’ve spent your life trying to recreate the reading experience of. If so, here is very good news: a literary estate managing company has acquired the late author’s estate, which has an unfinished manuscript for The Westing Game sequel that will get “another iconic middle grade author” to help get it published.
There is also an almost finished new novel that she was working on when she died in 1984, A Murder for Macaroni and Cheese, which “…awaits a final polish and a worthy collaborator to bring it to a finale, which is at the top of our to-do list.”
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How is everyone not already in the streets?
Louise Penny, Canadian author of the very popular Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series, posted on Facebook that she will not be visiting the U.S. because “of an unprovoked trade war against Canada by the U.S. president…” Even though she’s done U.S. book tours for 20 years and had an upcoming event, “launching THE BLACK WOLF in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center, I will be doing the event in my nation’s capital, Ottawa, at the National Arts Centre. It will be on Tuesday, October 28. Tickets can be purchased here.” May more people take note, stop complying in advance, and stand up.
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