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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

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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

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“The Fervor” Depicts the Horrors of Japanese Internment During WWII

Set in 1944 as World War II rages on, The Fervor (Putnam) by Alma Katsu, follows Meiko and her young daughter Aiko as they endure life in an internment camp where a mysterious disease is spreading like wildfire. What starts as a cold quickly turns into fits of violence, aggression…

Lydia LefevreApril 27, 2022

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The Thrill List Starts 2026 Off with a Bang!

January wastes no time reminding us why thriller and mystery fiction remain such irresistible winter reading. This month’s most compelling new releases span the full spectrum of suspense, from pulse-pounding conspiracies and courtroom battles to psychologically devastating reckonings with grief, identity, and buried secrets. These are stories fueled by obsession,…

Jon LandJanuary 16, 2026

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Southern Sass Meets Smart Crime in “A Killer in the Low Country” Audiobook

Candice Fox, you glorious troublemaker, you’ve officially ruined me for every other audiobook with A Killer in the Low Country. I pressed play, fully prepared to multitask — laundry, dishes, adulting, the usual. Ten minutes in, I was perched on my kitchen counter in yesterday’s eyeliner, headphones glued to my…

Monique SnymanNovember 25, 2025

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The Chill Quill: New Year, New Nightmares

New year, new nightmares. From ghost-haunted towns to snowbound streets whispering ancient secrets, this month’s horror lineup explores the dark threads of grief, inheritance, and transformation. Whether you’re craving short stories or queer Southern Gothic, January kicks off the year with fresh chills that linger well past the final page.…

Lindy RyanJanuary 14, 2026

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Punk, Profane, and Unstoppable: Sister Holiday Returns in “Divine Ruin”

In 2023, Margot Douaihy introduced crime fiction to an unforgettable new heroine in the form of a tatted-up, punk rock, cigarette-smoking, lesbian nun named Sister Holiday. Having spectacularly blown up her life in Brooklyn — her family, her girlfriend, her band — she’d fled to the only place that would…

Neil NyrenJanuary 13, 2026

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

“The Fervor” Depicts the Horrors of Japanese Internment During WWII

The Thrill List Starts 2026 Off with a Bang!

Southern Sass Meets Smart Crime in “A Killer in the Low Country” Audiobook

The Chill Quill: New Year, New Nightmares

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