Thursday, August 13, 2020

The best frenemies in fiction

E. G. Scott is a pseudonym for Elizabeth Keenan and Greg Wands, two writers who have been friends for over twenty-years, and have been writing plays, screenplays, and short stories separately since they were kids. They've collaborated on multiple projects from the beginning of their friendship.

Their new novel is In Case of Emergency.

At CrimeReads they tagged ten "favorite works featuring complex relationships, shifting allegiances, and odd bedfellows galore," including:
Clarice Starling & Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris

Sophisticated, charming, polite to a fault… just don’t let him have you for dinner. When clever, ambitious FBI trainee Starling enlists the help of incarcerated serial murderer Lecter—known not-so-affectionately as “Hannibal the Cannibal”—to aid in an active investigation, the two form a unique bond based on mutual respect that sees them through a veritable rollercoaster of a relationship. Come for the psychological gamesmanship, stay for the emotional tenderness.
Read about the other entries on the list.

The Silence of The Lambs is among Caroline Louise Walker's six terrifying villain-doctors in fiction, Kathy Reichs's six best books, Matt Suddain's five great meals from literature, Elizabeth Heiter's ten favorite serial killer novels, Jill Boyd's five books with the worst fictional characters to invite to Thanksgiving, Monique Alice's six great fictional evil geniuses, sixteen book-to-movie adaptations that won Academy Awards.

--Marshal Zeringue