October may seem like the best month to share a list of books, even a short list, that fall under the category of thrillers, mysteries, suspense or crime novels. You know the kind of novels I mean — something to keep you up late at night (as any good book…
Denny S. BryceOctober 21, 2021
Perry Mason. Atticus Finch. Sir Wilfred Robarts in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution. John Grisham's Reggie Love and Jake Brigance. When a fictional lawyer captures the passion and fire of the literary search for justice, readers cannot fail but be captivated. Even Nancy Drew’s father was a lawyer, remember?…
Hank Phillippi RyanSeptember 12, 2019
On Saturday, the International Thriller Writers announced the winners of the 2020 ITW Thriller Awards. Usually part of a banquet at the climax of the organization’s annual ThrillerFest conference, this year’s festivities were of necessity as virtual as the event itself. The awards were presented in a recorded session, with…
BookTribJuly 14, 2020
It feels impossible to discuss Cold War fiction, or the whole of espionage fiction for that matter, without mentioning the master of the spy novel himself, John le Carré. As The New York Times notes in the late novelist’s obituary, his “exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the…
Chelsea CicconeApril 5, 2022
Karin Slaughter is always good, but in the mesmerizing False Witness (William Morrow), she’s downright great. At its heart, this is a legal thriller extraordinaire that follows lawyer Leigh Collier barely managing to balance her firm’s politics and time demands with being the mother of a sixteen-year-old daughter. Driving the…
Jon LandJuly 26, 2021
Human technology is steadily making leaps and bounds into the future, but one thing left unachieved is the ability to read minds. This might not be the worst thing in the world. Just think of all the dark, twisted thoughts that pop up uninvited in your own mind and are…
Judy MorenoOctober 4, 2021
amahttps://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Gambling-Man.jpg David Baldacci is no stranger to hitting literary home runs, but his second book to feature World War II-veteran-turned-avenging-angel Aloysius Archer, A Gambling Man, (Grand Central) is a flat-out grand slam. His second adventure finds Archer heading west to Los Angeles — Hollywood, more specifically — in the (eventual)…
Jon LandApril 23, 2021
