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Checkmate! “Enemy Queen” Has This Lawyer and Professor in an Unlikely Mess

The two protagonists in Robert Steven Goldstein’s Enemy Queen (SparkPress) are reminiscent of those intelligent and respected pairs in entertainment who bumble their way through dubious decisions and actions. One can only imagine Enemy Queen was as much fun for Goldstein to write as it is for readers to read.…

Jim AlkonMay 12, 2020

Thrillers

Double Homicide vs Quirky PI Team in “Rigged”

A double homicide that catches even the local police by surprise. In Rigged (Oceanview), the fourth in the Jake Longly thriller series by D.P. Lyle, Tommy “Pancake” Jeffers, one of the sleuths at Longly Investigations, arrives in the quaint town of Fairhope, AL, to examine the finances involved in the…

Nikki ErlickMay 19, 2020

Thrillers

ITW’s 2020 ThrillerFest Goes Virtual

For the past fourteen years, ThrillerFest has been a summer staple in New York City. In 2020, thanks to the coronavirus, it’s going virtual to celebrate its 15th anniversary between July 6 and July 10. “ThrillerFest has become summer camp for thriller writers and enthusiasts,” says Steve Berry, former president…

BookTribMay 19, 2020

Thrillers

A Serial Killer Stalks Victims Via DNA Data in Connelly’s “Fair Warning”

The cover blurb on Michael Connelly’s latest novel, Fair Warning (Little, Brown and Company) is one hell of an anointment. Beneath the title, the Associated Press proclaims: “Connelly is the Raymond Chandler of this generation.” As in: Here be the heir to crime fiction’s mightiest throne. This comparison to Chandler is…

Casey BarrettMay 25, 2020

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Jessica Fletcher Meets Agatha Christie in “The Murder of Twelve”

Jessica Fletcher returns in the popular Murder She Wrote series with a mystery new and old fans of the series will adore. In the fiftieth installment, Jon Land wowed readers with a story reminiscent of a TV anniversary episode. Now, in The Murder of Twelve (Berkley) number fifty-one, he creates…

James R. HannibalMay 25, 2020

Thrillers

Troubled Justice: 6 Legal Thrillers on the Dark Side of the Law

Sometimes in the justice system, it’s hard to tell who the bad guy is. In these legal thrillers, those who pursue, uphold or enforce justice are also a little — or a lot — on the bad side. Some push the limits of legality in their methods, while others lack…

BookTribApril 29, 2020

Thrillers

Moral Dilemmas in Search for the Truth About Missing Co-Eds in “The Secrets They Left Behind”

There are periods in life when five years pass like a wave. One day you’re thirty-eight, the next you’re forty-three, and nothing much seems to have changed. The span between age eighteen and twenty-three is not one of those periods. Time has a way of changing speeds. That half-decade, in…

Casey BarrettMay 1, 2020

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ITW Spotlight: Scott Turow on Writing, Practicing Law and “The Last Trial”

In bestselling author Scott Turow’s newest legal thriller, The Last Trial (Grand Central), which is the 11th book of his Kindle County series, Sandy Stern will try his last case. His stellar career as a brilliant defense attorney is almost over. Never again will he argue in front of a…

K.L. RomoMay 11, 2020

Thrillers

Detective Emerges From Retirement When Murder Comes to “Diver’s Paradise”

Former detective Roscoe “R” Conklin lives on Bonaire, a tropical island in the southern Caribbean. Now the owner of the YellowRock hotel resort, Conklin’s closest contact with law enforcement should be his police officer girlfriend, Arabella, but after his former partner, Bill Ryberg, and his wife Marybeth are found murdered…

Chelsea CicconeApril 8, 2020

Thrillers

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

It seems as if phones are mobile catalogs of our entire lives. They contain our banking information, the names and addresses of our friends and family and pictures of everything from our lovable furry animals to screenshots of that recipe we saw on Pinterest. If given access to yours, what…

Chelsea CicconeApril 14, 2020

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A Droll Detective and a Lip-Reading Dog in “The Talented Mr. Varg”

Alexander McCall Smith makes the irrelevant relevant in The Talented Mr. Varg (Pantheon), a satirical social commentary on the mundane. Ulf Varg is not your average police inspector — a Scandinavian art enthusiast who loves books about cooking, travel, art and the krimis crime novels he reads for pure entertainment.…

K.L. RomoApril 14, 2020

Thrillers

“Without Sanction:” The Next Big Name in Military Thrillers Has Arrived

As a Flynn fan, I don’t say that lightly. Bentley’s novel, Without Sanction (Berkley), is a stunning debut that’s as good as military-political thrillers get. MASTER WRITER'S MEMORABLE STYLE LIVES ON Flynn, who died at age 47 from cancer in 2011, transcended the genre with great plots, fast-moving stories and,…

Dennis HetzelApril 20, 2020

Thrillers

6 Thrillers Worth Remembering in an April We’d Like to Forget

David Baldacci has served up just what the doctor ordered for sheltering in place during a pandemic with Walk the Wire (Grand Central), featuring the stalwart and cerebral FBI agent Amos Decker. Decker and his photographic memory are put to their greatest test ever when he and his partner Alex…

Jon LandApril 23, 2020

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Davenport Tracks Cyberspies and Hackers in Sandford’s “Masked Prey”

Masked Prey (G.P. Putnam's Sons) is #30 in John Sandford’s “Prey” series in which Lucas Davenport, a well-dressed investigator, hunts down killers, criminals, accomplices and various other ne’er-do-wells. In the first book of the series, Rules of Prey, Davenport is a police lieutenant in Minneapolis and the only member of…

Sherri DaleyApril 23, 2020

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Mystery, Menace and Motherhood in “The Familiar Dark”

Amy Engel’s The Familiar Dark (Dutton) begins in the darkness, in the final moments of the life of Junie Taggert, a twelve-year-old girl murdered alongside her best friend, Izzy, and laid to rest in an abandoned playground. Junie’s single mother, Eve, receives the devastating news from her brother Cal, a…

Nikki ErlickApril 1, 2020

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6 Thrillers to Binge While Social Distancing from the World

Harlan Coben’s blistering and bracing The Boy from the Woods (Grand Central) is a hybrid mystery-thriller featuring a unique blend of concepts and themes. Starkly original, in fact. Our hero is Wilde, who as a boy was (almost) quite literally raised by wolves — at least, in the same wild…

Jon LandMarch 27, 2020

Checkmate! “Enemy Queen” Has This Lawyer and Professor in an Unlikely Mess

Double Homicide vs Quirky PI Team in “Rigged”

ITW’s 2020 ThrillerFest Goes Virtual

A Serial Killer Stalks Victims Via DNA Data in Connelly’s “Fair Warning”

Jessica Fletcher Meets Agatha Christie in “The Murder of Twelve”

Troubled Justice: 6 Legal Thrillers on the Dark Side of the Law

Moral Dilemmas in Search for the Truth About Missing Co-Eds in “The Secrets They Left Behind”

ITW Spotlight: Scott Turow on Writing, Practicing Law and “The Last Trial”

Detective Emerges From Retirement When Murder Comes to “Diver’s Paradise”

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

A Droll Detective and a Lip-Reading Dog in “The Talented Mr. Varg”

“Without Sanction:” The Next Big Name in Military Thrillers Has Arrived

6 Thrillers Worth Remembering in an April We’d Like to Forget

Davenport Tracks Cyberspies and Hackers in Sandford’s “Masked Prey”

Mystery, Menace and Motherhood in “The Familiar Dark”

6 Thrillers to Binge While Social Distancing from the World

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