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Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers ROCK PAPER SCISSORS, SNAKES AND LADDERS, and THE IRON RING; the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels THE SENSE OF DEATH, THE SENSE OF RECKONING, THE FALCON AND THE OWL, and A FURNACE FOR YOUR FOE; and the Ann Kinnear Suspense Shorts, including CLOSE THESE EYES and WRITE IN WATER. Matty lives with her husband and three dogs in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and enjoys vacationing on Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Sedona, Arizona, and these locations provide the settings for her work. Matty is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Brandywine Valley Writers Group.

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	The Sense of Death (Ann Kinnear Suspense, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 858 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sense of Reckoning (Ann Kinnear Suspense #2) 4.06 avg rating — 238 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock Paper Scissors (The Lizzy Ballard Thrillers, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Falcon and the Owl (Ann Kinnear Suspense #3) 4.17 avg rating — 149 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Furnace for Your Foe (The Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels Book 4) 4.32 avg rating — 87 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snakes and Ladders (The Lizzy Ballard Thrillers, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Serpent's Tooth: An Ann Kinnear Suspense Novel (The Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels Book 5) 4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iron Ring (The Lizzy Ballard Thrillers #3) 4.40 avg rating — 50 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be with the Dead 4.49 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking the Short Tack: Creating Income and Connecting with Readers Using Short Fiction by Matty Dalrymple (Goodreads Author), Mark Leslie Lefebvre (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Secondary Characters You Love (or Love to Hate)

At a thriller writers conference last year, David Corbett called out the movie MICHAEL CLAYTON as an excellent example of development of secondary characters. I finally got a chance to watch the movie, and he was right. (How could you go wrong with the likes of Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, and a very unlikeable Tilda Swinton?)

He also gave shout outs to KILLING EVE, IN BRUGE, VERTIGO, BODY HEAT, Read more of this blog post »

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Crimson Thaw (Detective Justice #1)

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