LOCARNO — Marianly Tejada, star of Netflix hit “One of Us Is Lying,” and Jean Jean, multi-prized for “Woodpeckers,” are attached to headline “Predicament” (“Predicamento”), an action-thriller written, ...

Over the course of his career, William Boyd has excelled at two types of novel. There are comic romps in which hapless protagonists—such as the British diplomat Morgan Leafy of “A Good Man in Africa” ...