Dawn Ius

Brutal Murder Reveals Dark Secrets in Idyllic College Town

Esteemed Ivy League college president Dr. Amos Loeb is an Auschwitz survivor, a renowned scholar, a heroic humanitarian, a man beloved for “his simple kindness”— an unlikely target for assassination, one would think. Or is he? Surely this is a case of mistaken identity or a robbery gone wrong, right?…

Dawn IusJune 13, 2023

Miscellany Thrillers

Bestselling Author Shares Inspiration for New Thriller That Will Test Your Moral Compass

A stranger leaves you $3.5 million in his will — do you take the money and run? Or do you assume it’s a mistake and fork over the cash when someone comes looking for it? Regardless of your knee-jerk response here, the answer may not simply come down to which…

Dawn IusMay 24, 2023

BooksToScreen Thrillers

Celebrating Netflix’s Masterful Adaptation of “The Night Agent”

When Matthew Quirk published The Night Agent in 2018, he couldn’t have known his action-driven political thriller would later be adapted into a #1 hit show on Netflix — he couldn’t have known, but certainly, like many writers, he dreamt about it. It wasn’t the first time his work had…

Dawn IusApril 19, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Native Horror Debut is a Love Letter to Denver and Heavy Metal

Erika T. Wurth is well known in her community for uplifting other writers — and certainly Indigenous writers. Even a quick Google search will net links to several articles she’s penned about the massive renaissance in Native fiction. And with the launch of her stunning literary horror debut, White Horse…

Dawn IusNovember 9, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: William Warwick Protects Princess Diana in Jeffrey Archer’s Latest Thriller

London, 1988. Scotland Yard suspects corruption in the Royalty Protection Command, which safeguards the British Royal Family and assigns Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick to unearth the truth. Warwick’s maverick colleague, Ross Hogan, receives an especially sensitive assignment: the protection of Princess Diana. At the same time, rival art collectors…

Dawn IusOctober 6, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn had her feet firmly planted in the past when her editor called with a challenge she couldn’t pass up: Write a book featuring an older badass woman. Raybourn accepted the challenge and made it even more difficult. She created four badass women, made them assassins, and for the first…

Dawn IusSeptember 13, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Grappling with a Moral Dilemma

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown isn’t afraid to admit she wrote Blind Tiger — last year’s historical story of romantic suspense, set in the 1920s — partially to avoid dealing with the pandemic. As COVID continued to sweep across the globe, Brown says she wasn’t quite sure how she wanted that…

Dawn IusAugust 16, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Madness Takes Hold as Sleep Evades a High-Powered Lawyer

For Emma Averell — the protagonist in Sarah Pinborough’s twisty new thriller — her crippling insomnia has made her question whether she’s slowly going insane, like the mother she’s worked so hard to forget. For years, Emma has happily balanced her life as a high-powered lawyer, mother to two beautiful…

Dawn IusApril 12, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: A Deadly Day in the Life of Lemony Snicket

It’s almost impossible to discern whether that potentially controversial opinion is that of New York Times bestselling author Daniel Handler or the voice of his writing pseudonym Lemony Snicket — their personalities are so intricately combined, separating them is an exercise in futility. But one thing is for certain: both…

Dawn IusOctober 11, 2021

Author Spotlight Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Karin Slaughter Captures Tragedy in a Way Nonfiction Can’t in “False Witness”

"A wickedly sharp and arresting tour de force that blends a riveting plot and emotional subterfuge with propulsive prose ... unputdownable." —Lauren Francis-Sharma, author of Book of the Little Axe, on False Witness —∞— "Slaughter doesn’t save her twists for the end, instead peppering them throughout the intricately layered story amid stomach-churning near…

Dawn IusJuly 27, 2021

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Maureen Johnson’s Sardonic Sleuth Is Back!

When the last novel in New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious trilogy hit shelves in 2019, fans despaired that this would mean the end of intrepid student detective Stevie Bell — the final book in the series had not only wrapped up the case, but also the school year.…

Dawn IusJune 30, 2021

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

ITW Spotlight: Science and Mythology Collide in Epic Thriller Finale

On the surface, the third installment in award-winning author Gareth Worthington’s Children of the Fifth Sun series — Rubicon — is an action-packed, globe-hopping science thriller. But Worthington hopes readers also pick up on the novel’s ominous underlying message. “Ultimately,” he says, “I’d like people to understand that if we…

Dawn IusDecember 30, 2020

Author Spotlight Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Slaughter on Writing Violence and Her Latest, “The Silent Wife”

"Emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural." —Library Journal "An unflinching, deeply empathetic exploration of the stigma surrounding rape and the enduring trauma suffered by its survivors." —Publisher's Weekly “Her talent is the equivalent of Poe or a Hawthorne…

Dawn IusAugust 3, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Riley Sager on His Thriller-Within-Thriller in “Home Before Dark”

Since his reinvention with 2017’s award-winning thriller Final Girls, Riley Sager has been checking off a lot of writerly bucket list items — New York Times bestseller status, multiple foreign language deals, film options. The list goes on. But with his latest release, Home Before Dark (Dutton), Sager ticks off an item…

Dawn IusJuly 2, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Paretsky Shares Her Methods and Inspirations Behind “Dead Land”

"Paretsky always makes the top of the list when people talk about female operatives.” —New York Times “Among today’s PIs, nobody comes close to Warshawski.” —Publishers Weekly Almost 30 years have passed since Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski burst onto the literary scene, quickly establishing herself as one of the…

Dawn IusMay 15, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Reichs on Her Return to Tempe in a “A Conspiracy of Bones”

It’s never an easy decision for an author to take a writing hiatus — not when you’re dealing with a series character, and especially when that character is as well-known as Temperance Brennan, the plucky forensic anthropologist at the heart of Kathy Reichs’s New York Times bestselling series. But for…

Dawn IusMarch 20, 2020

Dawn Ius

Brutal Murder Reveals Dark Secrets in Idyllic College Town

Bestselling Author Shares Inspiration for New Thriller That Will Test Your Moral Compass

Celebrating Netflix’s Masterful Adaptation of “The Night Agent”

ITW Spotlight: William Warwick Protects Princess Diana in Jeffrey Archer’s Latest Thriller

ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

ITW Spotlight: Grappling with a Moral Dilemma

ITW Spotlight: Madness Takes Hold as Sleep Evades a High-Powered Lawyer

ITW Spotlight: A Deadly Day in the Life of Lemony Snicket

ITW Spotlight: Karin Slaughter Captures Tragedy in a Way Nonfiction Can’t in “False Witness”

ITW Spotlight: Maureen Johnson’s Sardonic Sleuth Is Back!

ITW Spotlight: Science and Mythology Collide in Epic Thriller Finale

ITW Spotlight: Slaughter on Writing Violence and Her Latest, “The Silent Wife”

ITW Spotlight: Riley Sager on His Thriller-Within-Thriller in “Home Before Dark”

ITW Spotlight: Paretsky Shares Her Methods and Inspirations Behind “Dead Land”

ITW Spotlight: Reichs on Her Return to Tempe in a “A Conspiracy of Bones”

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