Fascinating Facts About Agatha Christie

Here are five fascinating facts about Agatha Christie that you may not have known.

She ate apples in the bath for inspiration. Christie would dream up the plots of her novels while soaking in her large Victorian bath, eating apples. Unfortunately she had to put a stop to the practice once she became dissatisfied with the modern baths available to her. “Nowadays they don’t build baths like that. I’ve rather given up the practice.”

She tried and failed to take up smoking. Christie tried to make herself like cigarettes by smoking one after lunch and one after dinner each day, but was disappointed when the habit wouldn’t take.

She once disappeared for 11 days. Although it may sound like nothing more than a plot from one of her novels, Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926. Some suspected she was abducted by aliens, but a likelier explanation was built up stress due to her mother’s death and her husband’s cheating, and a need to escape for a time.

She started writing mysteries because her sister said she couldn’t. Christie’s older sister thought the plots and details would be too complicated for her younger sister, so she went ahead and wrote them anyway to prove her wrong.

She once called herself a sausage machine. The comment was in reference to her impressive output, which at one point was two books a year. She referred to herself as “a sausage machine, a perfect sausage machine.”

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Thrilling Private Detectives You’ll Want to Read Up On

Looking for your next thrilling mystery? Consider reading up on these two fictional private detectives.

Easy Rawlins. An African American World War II veteran turned private detective living in Los Angeles, Ezekiel “Easy” Porterhouse Rawlins didn’t pursue detective work but fell into it after losing his job at an aircraft manufacturer. The creation of American crime fiction novelist Walter Mosley, Easy Rawlins first appeared in Mosley’s 1990 novel Devil in a Blue Dress, which was adapted for the big screen in 1995. Set in the 1940s-1960s, Easy Rawlins finds himself not just investigating crimes but doing so while navigating the social injustices and race politics of America, all while avoiding police intervention due to the fact that his detective work is unlicensed.

Pete Fernandez. A reporter turned private detective, in Alex Segura’s Silent City fans were first introduced to a Pete Fernandex facing a failing career, an ended engagement, and the sudden death of his father. After returning to his hometown of Miami he’s convinced to help a man investigate the disappearance of his daughter, and through subsequent novels Fernandez finds himself following a path of private investigation, one which he had never expected. Pete Fernandez has now been featured in 7 stories to much critical acclaim, and he’s without a doubt one of the most interesting fictional detectives in modern literature.

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Thrilling and Suspenseful Books That Are Well Worth the Read

Here are three great books to consider when looking for your next thrilling read.

Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson. Suffering from anterograde amnesia, a disease that causes her to lose all her memories after she goes to bed, Christine Lucas wakes up every morning with more questions than answers. Not recognizing the bedroom she wakes up in every morning or the man sleeping beside her who identifies herself as he husband Ben, Christine keeps a personal diary in which one day she finds three words written in her own handwriting: "Don't trust Ben."

Bird Box by Josh Malerman. An apocalyptic attack leaves survivors struggling as a creature stalks them, leading them to violence and fatal madness with a mere glimpse. Malorie, one of the few survivors, leads her two small children on a dangerous voyage down the river while blindfolded, in an attempt to find sanctuary. Now a Netflix motion picture starring Sandra Bullock, Bird Box is nothing short of edge-of-your-seat suspense both in novel form and on the screen.

Sphere by Michael Crichton. When an alien spacecraft is discovered on the ocean floor, US Navy psychologist Norman Johnson joins a team of scientists assembled to examine it and quickly finds himself with far more to deal with than he bargained for. Adapted into a major motion picture in 1998, and the type of non-stop thriller we’ve come to expect from Crichton.

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How to Write a Thrilling Mystery

When aspiring to write a thrilling mystery, you may want to keep these tips and tricks in mind:

Murder! Murder! Murder! A heist can certainly make for a good read, but it’s always more exciting when lives are on the line! Start with a murder and take it from there, it’ll certainly make for a thrilling ride.

One is fun, but there’s always room for more! Why stop at just one murder? The kills can keep coming until the case is solved, and the extra pressure on your detective certainly raises the stakes and makes for a compelling read.

Every good murder needs a good motive. It can’t all be senseless killing, although there could certainly be a bit of that too. An intriguing motive for the murder makes for a compelling read, and certainly adds some thrill to the tale.

Creativity makes for a good killer. Anyone can fire a gun, a poison pill is so passé, and running someone over with a car is just plain clumsy. The best villains are the ones who take some time to do some plotting and scheming before executing the perfect execution.

Nobody’s perfect, and that applies to your detective. Making your detective a damaged human being who makes mistakes is bound to make for some more exciting action than a perfect hero who swoops in and saves the day.

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Three best thriller authors

There are thousands of thriller authors out there, but which of them are the best at what they do? Here is a rundown of some of the best thriller authors to ever put pen to paper.

Peter James

The creator of the Roy Grace novels, Peter James is a gifted crime writer that has sold over 19 million books worldwide and seen his books translated into 37 languages. He has 34 separate titles to his name including 17 standalone titles, 3 books in his vintage series and 14 books in his DS Roy Grace series. Peter James has a talent for plot twists that keep you guessing.

James Patterson

James Patterson is not only one of the best thriller authors around, he is also one of the most prolific and successful thriller authors out there. He has written 147 novels since 1976 and has had 114 of them on the New York Times bestsellers list and 67 of them have reached the #1 spot – a world record that no one else has equaled.

Val McDermid

Is a woman with a real talent for thriller fiction and has 38 books to her name to date in four series that feature a number of different protagonists. But her talents don’t just write in fiction novels, there are also radio plays, short stories, a children’s book and non-fiction work that have all come from her unique storytelling mind.

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