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    6 Thrillers Featuring Toxic Friendships in Academic Settings

    6 Thrillers Featuring Toxic Friendships in Academic Settings

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    By Kit Frick | December 2, 2025

    YA Authors Kit Frick and Kara Thomas On Writing Their Debut Adult Thrillers

    YA Authors Kit Frick and Kara Thomas On Writing Their Debut Adult Thrillers

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    Hold That Train! Writing a Sliding-Doors Thriller

    Hold That Train! Writing a Sliding-Doors Thriller

    Kit Frick on the movie that introduced us to the 'sliding-doors moment' and how it all translates to mystery.

    By Kit Frick | February 14, 2024

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    5 YA Thrillers about Vacations Gone Horribly Wrong

    Enjoy your staycation with these novels in which "an initially alluring getaway veers drastically sideways"

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    Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators

    Highly Unreliable and Morally Ambiguous Narrators

    "[U]nreliable narration can be enormously successful when the author’s use of misdirection or withholding is tied expressly to the character’s experience, behavior, and/or worldview."

    By Kit Frick | April 28, 2022

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