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Bloody Thrilling - Recent Mystery and Thriller Reads

Finally I managed to read enough thrillers for this corner, phew! They're all recommendations I got from the Hammett crew, so they're all expert approved and quality controlled. Hope you enjoy!

Based on Books: "Don't Look Now" - Daphne Du Maurier vs. Nicolas Roeg

SPOILER WARNING! Please watch at least the movie before going on, don't blame me for spoiling this for you.   Don't Look Now, both the short story as well as the movie, follows a married couple who, in the wake of their daughter's death, comes to Venice and meets two elderly sisters with an esoteric touch who warn them to leave the city, or else bad things will happen. As is usual in such cases, John the husband is killed by a serial killer who roams Venician streets at night. The original short story by Daphne Du Maurier was published in her 1971 collection Not After Midnight, and Other Stories and was subsequently adapted into the 1973 thriller of the same title by Nicolas Roeg, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie playing the couple John and Laura.