When Maestra came out, it divided readers and critics but it became a bestseller and landed a film deal. What’s this been like for its author, LS Hilton? Maestra began as a combination of two ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The art of sex and murder: Maestra by L.S. Hilton. It arrives from the publisher in a shiny black ...

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar president Hannah Minghella and producer Amy Pascal have set Erin Cressida Wilson to adapt Maestra, the L.S. Hilton novel that Sony acquired just before it established itself as the ...

When boundaries are broken, they aren't always broken through high-brow means. Today, we all agree that some of the best writing can be found in mysteries and thrillers, but when the genre began, what ...

The historical biographer’s foray into erotica easily outclasses Fifty Shades but sends the idea of female emancipation back to the 19th century A couple of years ago, on the day it was announced that ...

For someone whose book has sold close to a million copies across the world in just a year and drawn comparisons with bestsellers such as the Gone Girl and The Talented Mr Ripley, Lisa Hilton, 41, has ...

Publishers are often exhorted to take a Hollywood approach to their lead titles: to use the marketing power of a film studio to create a hit regardless of the critical reception or reader interest. In ...

Oscar Wilde would have had a field day with Lisa Hilton, or LS Hilton as she styles herself on the cover of her new and rather thrilling book Maestra. Hilton, who is 41, has already got through three ...

The British author, journalist and art-critic launched her second book in the “Maestra” series, Domina, which follows the fierce and sexual femme fatale protagonist Judith Rashleigh. , which follows ...

L.S. “Lisa” Hilton scored a worldwide smash with Maestra (2016) by cutting chilly erotica with something wicked. Exploited by several horrible men in London, Judith Rashleigh became entangled in an ...

Lisa Hilton was merely a well-known and widely-published British author, journalist, biographer and art critic. But since the publication of Maestra in 2016, which went on to become a global thriller ...

'Maestra' by L.S. Hilton: EW review Patrick Bateman, Tom Ripley, Dr. Hannibal Lecter: It feels like most literary psychopaths are men, with sex and masculine power sewn into the linings of their ...