Characters went to radio stations and spoke on the air; they proposed show ideas, made podcast teasers, created a murder-mystery show, got interviewees comfortable on mike.
The government has rejected growing calls for a major overhaul of the law on homicide, including the creation of a US-style offence of first-degree murder, saying it would create a "murder-lite" category for most killings.
"The brutal killings in the CAR are creating a cycle of murder and reprisal that threatens to spin out of control," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, and the author of the report.
"The brutal killings in the Central African Republic are creating a cycle of murder and reprisal that threatens to spin out of control," said Peter Bouckaert, author of the HRW report.
Carol O'Connell's novel "Bone by Bone" follows the blueprint of the 1948 board game "Clue," but updates it with enough suspects, motives and implements to create a serpentine murder scene on every corner of its celebrity-filled spread, Janet Maslin writes.
We may have autonomous navigation, bee-powered nightmare dogbots, and Aliens-esque exoskeletons, it seems that we can't create a decent murder machine.
Crime writers seize on 'Derbyshire Noir' Jump to media player Peak District "darkness" is inspiring crime writers to create a new murder genre.
Here Curtiz the master creates a diabolical murder yarn.
Although the villain of the episode "Hell House" has supernatural origins, the basis of the story came from a situation writer Trey Callaway had as a child; he and his friends created a fake murder scene in an abandoned barn and then convinced their friends that killings occurred there.
Mainstream literary novels succeed or fail on the strength of characterization, but noir fiction is less concerned with building complex and believable characters than with creating a medium in which murder and mayhem can thrive.
With perfect deadpan and in well-used wide-screen, Mr. Pen-ek samples a number of familiar hard-boiled codes and conventions, creating a moody intrigue with murder and betrayal, questions and answers, dramatic rules (the loaded gun that must go off) and symbolic figures (the enigmatic hit man, a mysterious boss, a beautiful siren).
