Thrillers

Her To-Do List Involves a Dead Body. What About Yours?

Domestic Bliss, with a Body “The truth is, it’s surprisingly difficult to kill someone with a vegetable knife. But as I was preparing carrot sticks at the time, it’s all I had.” That’s Lalla Rook talking. In M.K. Oliver’s A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage (and doesn’t that tell…

Neil NyrenJanuary 30, 2026

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A Glamorous Facade Cracks in Alyssa Sheinmel’s Chilling Mystery

It’s not true that painkillers eliminate pain. They only make it seem far away, as if it’s happening to someone else and you have no choice but to watch. Three intricately woven stories of addiction, resentment, and deceit converge at an exclusive rehabilitation facility for the rich and famous. The…

Michael FerryJanuary 20, 2026

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Behind the Perfect Porches, Something Deadly Lurks in “All the Little Houses”

This is the first May Cobb book I’ve read, but it sure won’t be the last - I’m hooked! Cobb has received tremendous acclaim for her deliciously twisty best-selling domestic thrillers in the past such as The Hunting Wives which also went on to be a hit TV series on…

R.G. BelskyJanuary 20, 2026

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Freida McFadden’s “Dear Debbie” Is a Sinister Delight

Freida McFadden’s latest psychological thriller is fiendishly clever and gripping in its narrative, revolving around Debbie Mullen and her family. Debbie is an advice columnist for the local newspaper, where she regularly offers advice for stressed wives and mothers. She may need some advice on her domestic situation, as her…

Philip ZozzaroJanuary 27, 2026

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Secrets Don’t Stay Buried in “Lost Girls of Hollow Lake”

Queer author Rebekah Faubion delivers a captivating and haunting Young Adult horror/thriller with a paranormal twist. Lost Girls of Hollow Lake revolves around a group of high school teenage girls who vanished on a mysterious island while on a school trip. During an Environmental Science trip to Hollow Lake National…

Natalia KavaleJanuary 27, 2026

Thrillers

Search for Stolen Art Leads to Battle of the Bulge in This WWII-Era Mystery

James R. Benn returns with an action-packed addition to his best-selling WWII-based Billy Boyle mystery series with The Phantom Patrol. The Boston native ex-cop detective returns as investigator and crime solver assigned to “Uncle Ike’s” staff. His distant cousin is General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied…

Linda HitchcockOctober 10, 2024

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A Genre-Bending Thrill Ride Through the Lone Star State

On Madera Creek, the second installment in Rachel Goss’s engaging SHE (science, history and espionage) series, is a fast-paced genre-bending tale set against the captivating backdrop of 1947 West Texas. The journey unfolds with the bloody prison escape of convicted Soviet spy, 28-year-old Natasha Baranov. Though she’s killed an innocent…

Dawn IusJanuary 10, 2024

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The Manor of Mystery: Agatha Christie’s Home Hosts Wartime Evacuees and Intrigue

"A mystery Mrs. Christie would have approved of.” — Jane Simons, The Dog Eared Book, Palmyra, NY —∞— Bridget Kelly would prefer to stay in London to complete her nursing training and aid the injured, but her matron has other plans for her. As World War II rages, children are…

Amanda GardnerOctober 12, 2021

Fiction Thrillers

Unsolved Murders, Family Secrets and Dark History of Nazi-Occupied Italy

“The war is over for you, but it has never ended for many of us here. We have buried the bodies, not the memories.” What We Buried (Simon & Schuster), the bestselling seventh Detective Ari Greene novel, by Canadian author Robert Rotenberg dives into two cold cases, dark family secrets,…

Megan BeauregardMay 30, 2024

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“Sins of the Fathers” Is a “What If?” Historical Thriller Blending Fact and Fiction Seamlessly

“An explosive ending as gut-wrenching as it is shocking. If this were a boxing match, it's the punch you didn't see coming.” — Stephen H. Foreman, Novelist and Screenwriter Even in modern times, high treason isn’t something to be taken lightly, but what if it could have saved millions of…

Monique SnymanFebruary 22, 2022

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WWII Suspense, Neo-Gothic Noir and Assassins in Jon Land’s Latest Thrill List

Jon LandFebruary 26, 2024

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Criminally Stunning Tale of Love and Adventure in Victorian London

“Can breaking the law ever be the right thing to do?” That’s the moral question young Edie Black ponders early in Michael Colburn’s historical thriller Stolen Brilliance: A Lady Black Mystery, which brings Victorian London to life. It’s an intriguing question — and Edie has a vested interest. She thinks…

Jim AlkonJanuary 27, 2025

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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

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Tananarive Due Tackles History’s Horrors, Heroes and “Haints” in “The Reformatory”

Tananarive Due’s new novel, The Reformatory, had an auspicious publication date: October 31st. It’s long been said that the line between the living and the dead is at its thinnest on Halloween night—a belief fitting of her story, given the ghosts (or “haints”) she resurrects within its pages. A seven-plus…

John B. ValeriNovember 21, 2023

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Soldier Seeks Purpose Beyond the Battlefield in Biographical Fiction

It is a grey November morning when an American foreigner in the Peace Corps makes his way through Ukraine aboard a cramped bus. Here, in an unfamiliar land, he hopes he can start fresh and leave his Army days and the war behind him, but he has yet to reconcile…

Megan BeauregardNovember 7, 2024

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A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Once upon a time, Thomas Hart Benton was a household name, known widely as America’s foremost Regionalist painter. A prolific chronicler of the nation during the good and bad times of the 1920s through World War II, the Kansas City native studied art in Paris and New York City and…

Claudia KeenanMarch 1, 2021

Her To-Do List Involves a Dead Body. What About Yours?

A Glamorous Facade Cracks in Alyssa Sheinmel’s Chilling Mystery

A Genre-Bending Thrill Ride Through the Lone Star State

The Manor of Mystery: Agatha Christie’s Home Hosts Wartime Evacuees and Intrigue

“Sins of the Fathers” Is a “What If?” Historical Thriller Blending Fact and Fiction Seamlessly

WWII Suspense, Neo-Gothic Noir and Assassins in Jon Land’s Latest Thrill List

Criminally Stunning Tale of Love and Adventure in Victorian London

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

Tananarive Due Tackles History’s Horrors, Heroes and “Haints” in “The Reformatory”

Soldier Seeks Purpose Beyond the Battlefield in Biographical Fiction

A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

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