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It’s Raining Thrillers: Jon Land’s 7 April Picks

While you're resigned to stay indoors through the sporadic April showers, let an excellent thriller keep you company.  Jon Land has seven fantastic suggestions. I have no idea how Lisa Scottoline does it, turning out book after book that tugs at our heartstrings while pulling a rip cord to unleash…
Jon Land
April 18, 2019
Thrillers

Better Watch Out: Killer Santa Takes Instead of Gives

Dennis McCort is a learned fellow. He’s a retired college German professor, literary translator, language buff, music expert, and author of several books, ranging from A Kafkaesque Memoir tracing his own experience in psychoanalysis to a comedy, The Man Who Loved Doughnuts. The description of one of his books says…
Jim Alkon
April 3, 2019
Thrillers

Chatting with C.J. Box on Upcoming Release “Wolf Pack”

This story originally appeared on The Real Book Spy.  Joe Pickett, America’s favorite game warden, is back in Wolf Pack (G.P. Putnam's Sons), the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box. When a high-tech drone leads to the death of wildlife in Wyoming, a female game warden follows…
Ryan Steck
March 18, 2019
Thrillers

In This Thriller, Revenge is a Dish Best Served Pretty

With women and secrets, lies and deceit, friendships and forgiveness, Pretty Revenge (Gallery Books) delivers a suspenseful dose of crazy in this fifth novel, an emotional thriller, from Emily Liebert, slated for release this July. Ah, revenge! Eighteen years ago, Kerrie’s life was turned upside down. Hurt by the betrayal and…
Jennifer Blankfein
March 25, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Heather Graham Pens a Bold Thriller

Bestselling author Heather Graham returns to her New York Confidential series with A Lethal Legacy (MIRA Books)—a thriller that involves a modern murder and a cocktail of historic mysteries ranging from the Knights Templar to the Ark of the Covenant and the Vikings in America, with a twist of alien…
J.H. Bogran
March 5, 2019
Thrillers

“RED Hotel” Authors Take Us Inside Their Global Thriller

BookTrib had the pleasure of chatting with Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller, authors of RED Hotel (Beaufort Books), an international reality thriller. In RED Hotel, geopolitical espionage meets timely tensions in a story where terrorism meets hospitality. Grossman, a thriller novel veteran, uses analogues for contemporary political figures to ground…
BookTrib
March 26, 2019
Thrillers

Coben’s Search for Runaway Daughter Exposes Dark World

It was the businessman’s eldest daughter, Paige, who he hadn’t seen in six months. He approaches her and begs her to come home, but she runs. That’s how New York Times bestselling thriller master Harlan Coben sets up his latest novel, Run Away (Grand Central Publishing). The story follows Simon…
Jim Alkon
March 14, 2019
Thrillers

Widower Clashes With Demons Holding Wife’s Soul

As someone not obsessed with the genre, I couldn’t put down Michael Phillip Cash’s Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island (Red Feather Publishing). Upon realizing the book is only 161 pages, one might wonder how quickly and deeply the author can advance his story. Stop wondering – this one packs…
Jim Alkon
March 11, 2019
Thrillers

An Explosive End to Don Winslow’s Trilogy

So begins The Border (William Morrow), Rhode Island native Don Winslow’s long-awaited, brilliant and bracing concluding chapter to the trilogy that began twenty years ago with The Power of the Dog and continued much more recently with The Cartel. The great thing about that opening line is that it foreshadows…
Jon Land
February 27, 2019
Thrillers

Valentine’s Day Is Over–Bring On Jon Land’s Thrillers

Time to take a respite from the romance of the recent holiday with eight captivating thrillers, chosen by esteemed author Jon Land. Break out your heart-shaped chocolates and dive right into some highly anticipated reads--you'll be glad you gave any of these a shot! Seldom has a writer laid claim…
Jon Land
February 15, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Killing, Comedy, and Country Music

Sophie Hannah’s not a stand-up comedienne… yet. But she gets to play the part in her newest thriller, The Next to Die (William Morrow Books). In it, comedienne Kim Tribbeck finds herself center-stage in a string of homicides that have an unusual twist—the murdered couples are all best friends. But…
K.L. Romo
February 20, 2019
Thrillers

Lisa Gardner Discloses All on New Thriller “Never Tell”

In the latest thriller of the Detective D.D. Warren series, Never Tell (Dutton), best-selling author Lisa Gardner peels back layer after layer of secrets to reveal a clever, determined murderer. Evie Carter, a pregnant high school math teacher, finds her husband shot dead in his home office. Instead of dialing 9-1-1, she picks up…
Gisèle Lewis
January 31, 2019
Thrillers

A Mystery and a Mind Unravel in “The Silent Patient”

Alex Michaelides grew up reading Agatha Christie “obsessively,” but she never wrote anything like this. The Silent Patient (Celadon Books) grips you immediately, but where it goes is completely unpredictable – and it takes you to dark corners of the human psyche you never knew existed. “I love him so totally,…
Neil Nyren
February 6, 2019
Thrillers

Drugs, Secrets, and Disappearances in “The Woman Inside”

The Woman Inside (Dutton) by E.G. Scott is a story of marriage, prescription drugs, money and secrets. Lots of secrets. At first, you think you’ve got all you need to know about the main characters—their motivations, thoughts, emotions—to deduce the final outcome based on these scatterings sprinkled throughout this well-crafted…
Janice Lombardo
February 6, 2019