Thrillers

6 YA Thrillers Featuring Daring Escapes

We all dream of adventure — but what would you do if adventure came barging through the door and dragged you away to some dark, dank dungeon? Would you fight tooth and nail to get away? Would you risk it all in a daring escape? That’s exactly what these frightened…

BookTribMarch 26, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Lisa Unger Puts a Spin on the Haunted House Novel in “The New Couple in 5B”

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger has a tried-and-true method for writing her novels — not a word makes it to the page until the voices start talking. In her latest book, The New Couple in 5B (Park Row), those voices belong to Chad and Rosie, a couple who…

Dawn IusMarch 21, 2024

Thrillers

WWII Spy Thriller Series Takes on Post-War Hollywood

David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1990’s, using the pseudonym David Monnery, he published…

Linda HitchcockMarch 21, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

The Chill Quill: Meet the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees

March is women-in-horror month, and this year, women are claiming their space on the Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot. Last year, women ran the Superior Achievement in an Anthology category — a Stoker Awards® first — with anthologies from editors Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Sawyers (Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology),…

Lindy RyanMarch 15, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Reporter’s Probe Forces Secrets to Surface in Claire Coughlan Debut

Each month yields a fresh bumper crop of thrillers. They may be labeled “atmospheric, literary, spine-tingling, noir” or whatever the currently favored catch-phrase is for publicists to extol their clients’ virtues making it difficult for readers and reviewers not to become cynical about these sometimes over-hyped new releases. However, there…

Linda HitchcockMarch 18, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Latest in Mystery Series Follows P.I.’s Mission to Keep Young Escort Alive

“Somebody wants to get rid of these girls. And it’s not just some hoodlums who got rejected over the internet. There’s got to be more to this, I’m convinced of that. And I believe it goes on higher up.” You wouldn’t think of him as a touchy-feely kind of guy.…

Jim AlkonMarch 20, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Suspects Are Endless in Art Sleuth’s Thrilling Investigation

A novel that, quite literally, starts off with a Bang! When a parachute stunt by an ambitious performance artist goes wrong, a massive red stone monolith comes crashing down, obliterated on the desert floor. While the authorities scramble to hold someone responsible for this explosive act of sabotage, an accomplished…

Michael FerryMarch 18, 2024

Thrillers

Demon-Priest’s Daughter Solves Mysterious Attacks on Her Village in Supernatural Thriller

Sometimes, moving forward means looking back. Sri Lanka native Amanda Jayatissa demanded the crime fiction community’s attention with her culturally infused debut, My Sweet Girl, which won ITW’s Best First Novel Award in 2022. Her follow-up, You’re Invited, earned a recommendation from Brad Thor on The Today Show and was named a Book of…

John B. ValeriMarch 6, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

AuthorBuzz: Tea Shop Mystery and Giveaway for Domestic Thriller

Sorry, this promotion has ended. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! Murder in the Tea Leaves, Tea Shop Mystery #27 by Laura Childs (Berkley – Penguin Random House) Dear Reader, When tea maven Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of a spooky movie, sparks fly…

AuthorBuzzMarch 4, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Kira Peikoff’s Psychological Thriller, “Baby X,” Is Cautionary Tale of Genetic Engineering

Imagine a world in which any biological matter — an eyelash, a cheek cell swab, a hair follicle — can be used to create life. And even worse, it could happen without the permission, or knowledge, of the “donor.” That’s the concept at the heart of Kira Peikoff’s chilling new…

Dawn IusMarch 5, 2024

Podcasts Thrillers

Books & Looks Podcast: Deadly Plots and Corporate Greed: Inside Otho Eskin’s “Firetrap”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

BookTribFebruary 21, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Latest from the Queen of Irish Crime Fiction Comes Tana French’s “The Hunter”

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher comes a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. The Hunter by Tana French picks up two years after The Searcher — though it can stand alone — and takes readers on a twisting ride that will stick with…

BookTribMarch 4, 2024

Thrillers

“Leave No Trace” Kicks Off National Parks Thriller Series from Jon Land and Jeff Ayers

Leave No Trace (Minotaur Books) by A.J. Landau — pseudonym for the writing duo of internationally bestselling author Jon Land and Jeff Ayers — immediately plunges readers into the action with a brutal act of terrorism. An explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Destroying America’s beloved symbol of…

Dawn IusFebruary 27, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Pretty, Pink, and Poisonous: The “Pink Horror” Era

Aerosmith frontman Stephen Tyler may have sung, “Pink, it’s my new obsession” back in the glory days of late-90s rock, but it wasn’t until the early 2020s that the horror genre fell in love with pink — and, with the success of 2023’s Barbie that put Pantone 219C front and…

Lindy RyanFebruary 23, 2024

Romance Thrillers

The Chill Quill: Romancing the Gothic

This is the first edition of The Chill Quill, a twice-monthly Horror, Suspense and Speculative Fiction column by Lindy Ryan. There’s something beautiful about the dark, isn’t there? Characterized by dark atmospheres, grotesque characters and events, and powerful emotions that blur the line between love and hate, Gothic fiction has…

Lindy RyanFebruary 20, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

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

Jon LandFebruary 26, 2024

6 YA Thrillers Featuring Daring Escapes

Lisa Unger Puts a Spin on the Haunted House Novel in “The New Couple in 5B”

The Chill Quill: Meet the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees

Latest in Mystery Series Follows P.I.’s Mission to Keep Young Escort Alive

Suspects Are Endless in Art Sleuth’s Thrilling Investigation

AuthorBuzz: Tea Shop Mystery and Giveaway for Domestic Thriller

Books & Looks Podcast: Deadly Plots and Corporate Greed: Inside Otho Eskin’s “Firetrap”

Pretty, Pink, and Poisonous: The “Pink Horror” Era

The Chill Quill: Romancing the Gothic

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

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