![]() ![]() “ Twilight” became one of the publishing industry’s most lucrative entertainment franchises, with four novels, a companion novella and five blockbuster films. Meyer, whose young-adult vampire novels have sold more than 155 million copies globally and helped spur an entire booming subgenre called paranormal romance. It is a stark and unexpected departure for Ms. ![]() So a lot of fans were surprised to learn that her new book, “The Chemist,” published this week, is a grisly, twisted thriller about a highly skilled female interrogator who goes into hiding after her bosses at a secret government agency try to kill her. (Her 2008 novel, “The Host,” centered on parasitic aliens that occupy human bodies, and even that was too blandly terrestrial for some readers.) ![]() Stephenie Meyer’s millions of fans have come to expect certain supernatural flourishes from her novels, which feature shape-shifters, vampires and werewolves, even vampire-werewolf hybrids. ![]()
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