contrivances

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Co-created by Robert Hull, Mr. Coben’s “I Will Find You” is based—like more than a dozen other adaptations of the author’s novels—on cockamamie contrivances and a curious tweak on the mystery thriller.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

“We Live in Time” is also chock-full of contrivances.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

Ewell doesn’t help himself with a couple of contrivances that are crucial to propelling the plot along.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Some readers will rue the absence of reality-warping plot contrivances, unreliable narration and metafictional devices.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Adams had spent most of his retirement years denouncing such contrivances as gross distortions of history.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis