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Verity: Team Letter or Team Manuscript?

Verity: Team Letter or Team Manuscript?

Andrea Cepeda
MMN Reads

Verity by New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover, is a psychological thriller which is very different from what Hoover usually writes. Like all of the novels I’ve read by her, I enjoyed this one but I was also confused and frustrated–in a good way–with how the novel ended.

Hoover is notorious for always including plot twists in her novels, and while Verity was full of them, the biggest plot twist comes at the end when Lowen finds the letter that Verity wrote to Jeremy with the “truth.” What’s so confusing and frustrating about the ending is that the readers don’t really know who to believe because as the novel escalates, all the characters become suspicious and untrustworthy.

Kristen Bell Is Convinced She Saw A Murder In The Teaser For The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window

Kristen Bell Is Convinced She Saw A Murder In The Teaser For The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window

Angelina Villeseche
True Crime in Film & TV

Given that it bought The Woman In The Window from Disney and then pushed it out relatively quietly, it's almost odd to see Netflix putting a spotlight back on the lone-woman-convinced-of-murder thriller genre with a new spoof version. But here we are with Kristen Bell, who swears she saw a killing in The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window, which has its first teaser online, filled with winks at many of the genre tropes.

The messed up story 'Heavenly Creatures' is based on

The messed up story 'Heavenly Creatures' is based on

Angelina Villeseche
True Crime in Film & TV, Murder History 101

In 1994, few outside New Zealand knew the name Peter Jackson and even fewer knew about the 1954 murder that inspired his breakout movie "Heavenly Creatures." The perpetrators of the infamous Kiwi crime were Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, teenagers who clubbed Pauline's mother, Honora, to death with a brick. Their motive? Honora, they believed, wanted to separate them.

New Podcast Episode: The Last Thing to Burn

New Podcast Episode: The Last Thing to Burn

Angelina Villeseche
Fresh from MMN, True Crime Podcast, MMN Reads

Author Will Dean talks about his brand new thriller, The Last Thing to Burn. The book tells the story of a woman being held captive on a remote farm in the UK. Thanh Dao, or Jane as she is renamed by her captor, was trafficked from her home in Vietnam, abused, and stripped of her identity. But now Jane has discovered she is pregnant, and has resolved to protect her child at all costs.