mystery

Moral Dilemmas in Search for the Truth About Missing Co-Eds in “The Secrets They Left Behind”

There are periods in life when five years pass like a wave. One day you’re thirty-eight, the next you’re forty-three, and nothing much seems to have changed. The span between age eighteen and twenty-three is not one of those periods. Time has a way of changing speeds. That half-decade, in…

Casey BarrettMay 1, 2020

Thrillers

“Danger in Plain Sight:” This Unlikely Duo Makes a Formidable Team

As former bartender and smuggler Cash Logan tells it, a scorpion meets a frog on the bank of a stream and asks the frog to carry him across. The frog asks how does he know the scorpion won’t sting him. The scorpion explains that if he stings the frog, he…

Jim AlkonMay 5, 2020

Thrillers

Detective Emerges From Retirement When Murder Comes to “Diver’s Paradise”

Former detective Roscoe “R” Conklin lives on Bonaire, a tropical island in the southern Caribbean. Now the owner of the YellowRock hotel resort, Conklin’s closest contact with law enforcement should be his police officer girlfriend, Arabella, but after his former partner, Bill Ryberg, and his wife Marybeth are found murdered…

Chelsea CicconeApril 8, 2020

Thrillers

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

It seems as if phones are mobile catalogs of our entire lives. They contain our banking information, the names and addresses of our friends and family and pictures of everything from our lovable furry animals to screenshots of that recipe we saw on Pinterest. If given access to yours, what…

Chelsea CicconeApril 14, 2020

Thrillers

6 Thrillers to Binge While Social Distancing from the World

Harlan Coben’s blistering and bracing The Boy from the Woods (Grand Central) is a hybrid mystery-thriller featuring a unique blend of concepts and themes. Starkly original, in fact. Our hero is Wilde, who as a boy was (almost) quite literally raised by wolves — at least, in the same wild…

Jon LandMarch 27, 2020

Thrillers

“A Child Lost” in 1930s Chicago Grips Professional Sleuthing Family

Michelle Cox's Henrietta and Inspector Howard series is a delightful mix of historical fiction and intrigue with a bit of saucy lovemaking tossed in. In A Child Lost (She Writes Press), the fifth book, she adds spooky. Right away, we get swept into the story. We meet little Anna, the…

Sherri DaleyMarch 23, 2020

Thrillers

“The Heartless” Delivers a Police Thriller with Deeper Surprises

If you come to The Heartless (Oceanview) expecting a solid, fast-moving police thriller, you’ll be satisfied. But you’ll also discover much more. David Putnam’s seventh novel about the world of Los Angeles County officer Bruno Johnson involves a hunt for escaped convicts through the meanest streets of Los Angeles. The…

Dennis HetzelFebruary 12, 2020

Thrillers

Haunted Heroine Rushes “Toward the Light” in Debut Thriller

There’s nothing quite like discovering a new, exotic city through the pages of a thriller. Through fast-paced fiction, the sights and sounds and smells of a place come through in technicolor. A city feels so much more, well, thrilling. It beats any guidebook. Bonnar Spring’s beautifully executed first novel Toward…

Casey BarrettJanuary 16, 2020

Thrillers

A Chilling Tale of Murder and Secrets in P.J. Tracy’s Latest

Maybe you’re sweating through the last-gasp heat wave of summer. As perspiration slides down your nose, you feel stickier than a Hershey bar in tropical sun. Your air conditioning is busted, so you sit on your porch as an ineffective fan mainly swirls the rancid, steamy air in a different…

Dennis HetzelSeptember 5, 2019

Thrillers

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

“Did your hunch prove correct?” asked Gwen. “It did,” replied Iris, as she began typing her notes of the interview. “What was it about?” “Her stockings.” “Were her seams not straight?” “The seams were straight,” said Iris. “The girl is crooked.” It is June 1946 in London. The war is…

Neil NyrenMay 31, 2019

Thrillers

Mysteries and Middle Age Woes in “Pilate’s Blood”

Everybody slows down in their forties. Shouldn’t the same go for action heroes? This is the sort of commentary with which author J. Alexander Greenwood subverts the mystery series formula in Pilate’s Blood. John Pilate returns home to Cross Township to accept a position as the town constable while they…

Jeff DaughertyJune 13, 2019

Thrillers

Detective Team Unveils Mystery in 1930s Chicago

Michelle Cox suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s. Perhaps that is why she writes about the period so adeptly. Chicago is the setting for her award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, engaging plots that charm us with modern-minded characters enmeshed in a world full of social expectations,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 12, 2019

Thrillers

“The Wife Between Us” Meets “Rebecca”

Since high school, Claire Prescott planned her life. From the first time she saw university professor Byron Prescott speak about literature at her high school, she knew he would be a part of it. Even though everyone told her Byron was too old and his first wife, Colleen, seemed to…

Missi GwartneyJune 10, 2019

Thrillers

Jessica Fletcher is Back in Jon Land’s “Murder in Red”

In Murder in Red (Berkley), the forty-ninth installment of the long-running Murder, She Wrote series, Jessica Fletcher returns with familiar and well-executed flare. This is the third series installment penned by Jon Land. Last time, he took Jessica well outside her comfort zone to unravel a Deep State conspiracy, a…

James R. HannibalMay 28, 2019

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Mystery Probes Complex Female Relationships

Alafair Burke didn’t set out to write a trilogy, but with the release of her latest novel of domestic suspense—The Better Sister—Burke completes a set of three thematic novels that explore “the complexity of female relationships and the diverse roles that women play in contemporary society.” The Better Sister (Harper)…

Dawn IusMay 9, 2019

Thrillers

Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

The enigmatic title The Sleeping Lady (She Writes Press), conjures a feeling of mystery and excitement, an impression that only intensifies after opening the book. The namesake of The Sleeping Lady is the hazy outline of Mount Tamalpais. This summit helps frame the skyline over small towns north of San…

Mary Ann RyanMarch 13, 2019

Moral Dilemmas in Search for the Truth About Missing Co-Eds in “The Secrets They Left Behind”

“Danger in Plain Sight:” This Unlikely Duo Makes a Formidable Team

Detective Emerges From Retirement When Murder Comes to “Diver’s Paradise”

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

6 Thrillers to Binge While Social Distancing from the World

“A Child Lost” in 1930s Chicago Grips Professional Sleuthing Family

“The Heartless” Delivers a Police Thriller with Deeper Surprises

Haunted Heroine Rushes “Toward the Light” in Debut Thriller

A Chilling Tale of Murder and Secrets in P.J. Tracy’s Latest

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

Mysteries and Middle Age Woes in “Pilate’s Blood”

Detective Team Unveils Mystery in 1930s Chicago

“The Wife Between Us” Meets “Rebecca”

Jessica Fletcher is Back in Jon Land’s “Murder in Red”

ITW Spotlight: Mystery Probes Complex Female Relationships

Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

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