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Matt Rees
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Mozart's Last Aria
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Omar Yussef Mystery, #1)
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A Grave in Gaza (Omar Yussef Mystery #2)
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The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mystery #3)
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The Fourth Assassin (Omar Yussef Mystery #4)
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A Name In Blood
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Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East
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7 novels to improve your thriller writing
Read these books for specific ways to improve your thriller writing technique
Writers will give you lots of rules for thriller writing. The main ones are usually:
• Start with action
• Heap trouble on your hero
• Foreshadow something early that’s mysterious; reveal the truth about it near the end
• Have the clock tick down to a disaster which only the hero can stop
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Writers will give you lots of rules for thriller writing. The main ones are usually:
• Start with action
• Heap trouble on your hero
• Foreshadow something early that’s mysterious; reveal the truth about it near the end
• Have the clock tick down to a disaster which only the hero can stop
Thriller writers and other writers Read more of this blog post »
“Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.”
― The Collaborator of Bethlehem
― The Collaborator of Bethlehem
“Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.”
― The Collaborator of Bethlehem
― The Collaborator of Bethlehem
“Every exhalation is an expulsion of some part of our finite store of life, and also a sigh of relief that the grave is closer by one tedious, depressing pulse...Each time we breathe, we fear that it's our last breath and it will chill us all the way to the void.”
― The Collaborator of Bethlehem
― The Collaborator of Bethlehem
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Dear Matt,I would like to thank you for the friendship request here on Goodreads, which i concider an honor. I feel extremely privaliged to have had the oportunity of reading your increadible novel 'a name in blood' and i do hope my review has helped in promoting your work. I look forward to reading more of your work in the future, and thank you once again.
Lucinda x
Matt:from my sister who first introduced me to your work, when I sent her a link to the star.com article (she's a politician in Maine):
>>I have read all three of his books, in fact just finished one. He is a terrific writer and really knows the ins and outs of the politics of the area. Sharon
cheers,
jessica
My new book, The 9 Ghosts of Samen's Baneis available now.
[image error] Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Hi Matt. Thanks so much for the addدرود
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Thanks, Jessica. Sometimes I'm a little disturbed that events here seem to follow storylines I made up for my novels, with new and rather dreadful twists. I do have a third novel in the Omar Yussef series coming out on February 1 called "The Samaritan's Secret." It's set in Nablus ... but I hope that doesn't mean trouble is headed their way, Gaza-style. best, Matt
I thought of you and the book I've read of yours with the situation in Gaza. It's awful.I'm going to look for another of your books.
happy new year--
Jessica
Thanks for the add, Matt! Your books look excellent. Which would be the best one to start with? I love mysteries, and have lived and worked in Israel for a year, in 1999-2000. Hope you have a wonderful day!
Love the quote. Ring Lardner, alas, the great reporter writer. Thanks for the addWilliam Elliott Hazelgrove
http://www.billhazelgrove.com
Hello Matt,How are you? Thank you for being my friend. Good fortune on your books.
Please visit these groups when you have a chance: “Happy & Brainy Group” and “To the Glory of Man”.
Have fun. Best regards.
Hi Matt,This is weird. I'm a crime writer who used to be a crime reporter and BRIEFLY did some news reporting in the Middle East! I'm currently working on an Iranian based thriller but if Chandler and Hammett are your thing you should check out my novel, HOLLYWWOD BOWL. E-mail me for details.
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thank u for adding me -----------------behzaad from persia
Thanks for the friend request. :) I was wondering if it was due to a particular review I had left here, or whether you knew of me from elsewhere online.
Thanks for befriending me. Graham Greene is among my favorite authors, too. Have a great week,
Karen Harrington
author, Janeology
Thanks for sending a friend request to this cozy mystery author, Matt! Is there a distributor/store/library in Israel that carries copies of my mystery, A REAL BASKET CASE? I'm curious to find out if it's available there.
