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Thrillers That Will Kick Off Your Year With a Bang

It seems that some talented writers have already assured us that 2019 is off to an explosive start. So many fantastically thrilling books have come out this month that Jon Land's featured picks will be split into two parts. The true harrowing plot to take out one of America's iconic…
Jon Land
January 9, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

FBI Special Agent Pendergast is assigned to work with a new partner in Verses for the Dead (Grand Central), the latest thriller in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s hugely popular series. And, as fans of the famously rogue operative might expect, Pendergast finds that almost as challenging as the series of…
R.G. Belsky
January 8, 2019
Thrillers

Jon Land’s Chilling January Thrillers Volume II

January has held so many twisting thriller titles, Jon Land decided to split his top monthly reviews into two action-packed parts. Courtroom drama, black-ops teams and more in this final featured installment for January suspense. Fiona Barton adds international spice and flare to the tried and true formula that made…
Jon Land
January 24, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: A Paranormal NYC in “The Spectral City”

When she’s not writing bestselling and award-winning Gothic Victorian Fantasy, Leanna Renee Hieber moonlights as a licensed ghost tour guide in New York City’s Boroughs of the Dead. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. An online search for “ghosts of New York City” yields more than 80 million results,…
Jaden Terrell
December 6, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Chatting with David Baldacci

According to bestselling author David Baldacci, when you’ve written as many books as he has—10 series, or a total of 30 books and counting; and another 12 stand-alone novels—there’s one way to keep his writing razor-sharp: “Start from Square One: create a new character, a new series—a new world.” With…
Josie Brown
December 12, 2018
Thrillers

Spies, Lies, Goodbyes and the Quest For Blue

The color blue—one of the rarest colors on earth. It is the color of the sky and sea, of eternity, of divinity. And sometimes the color of death. A color which proved to be at the heart of the race for the most coveted porcelain in the world. In The…
K.L. Romo
December 3, 2018
Thrillers

Ancient Truths, Modern Evil, in Hearts of the Missing

The spirit of Tony Hillerman hovers over every page of Carol Potenza’s debut novel Hearts of the Missing (Minotaur), so it’s no surprise that, when still unpublished, it won the 2017 Hillerman Prize for the best first mystery set in the Southwest. Hillerman’s spirit is far from the only ghost that…
Neil Nyren
December 4, 2018
Thrillers

Cyber Warfare, Classic Heroes, and International Crises

Jon Land is back in action giving you his top picks for November in all things thrilling and suspense. This month's picks feature some classic heroes, cyber warfare, and timely crises at an international scale. Don't miss out on any of his top seven thriller selections to pick up while…
Jon Land
November 16, 2018
Thrillers

True Washington Insider Pens Twisty Legal Thriller

The Eighteenth Green (Beaufort Books) billed as a Jack Patterson Thriller by Webb Hubbell, is a fast-paced, twisty legal thriller set in Washington. The reader gets that the author really knows Washington, how the U.S. government works, and the lengths the government will go against someone.  The government will imprison…
Jim Parry
November 21, 2018
Thrillers

Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud: Chatting with Mike Lupica

As a reviewer and insider, Ryan Steck has been called “the Godfather of the thriller genre.” In this first contributed piece to BookTrib, Ryan names every thriller hitting the bookshelves this fall that genre aficionados should know about. Visit Ryan at www.therealbookspy.com. Replacing an icon can’t be easy, but you wouldn’t know…
Ryan Steck
November 30, 2018
Thrillers

The Elderly Female Antihero We Never Knew We Needed

Maud an 88-year-old introverted Swedish woman, seems so innocuous and frail....but of course maybe that's the perfect cover for getting away with murder. In Helene Tursten's An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good (Soho Press), the resources normal senior citizens rely on for rehabilitation quickly turn to tools of…
Rebecca Proulx
November 7, 2018
Thrillers

Author Buzz Giveaway: Two Suspenseful Reads

In this week's Author Buzz giveaway, we have two great selections available! It's your choice, a gripping medical thriller penned by Geoffrey M. Cooper or Lexi Blake's suspenseful romance. Either way, we know you won't be disappointed! Dear Reader, In Protected (Evil Eye Concepts), when Wade’s high school sweetheart broke his heart,…
AuthorBuzz
November 12, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Exploring the Eerie Lake Superior

Sometimes, as readers, we don’t know what we’ve been longing for until after it arrives. For instance, the eerie pleasures of a suspenseful, atmospheric novel set on Lake Superior become evident when we wrap ourselves around a sentence such as, “No one who was alive when her body floated onto…
Nancy Bilyeau
November 13, 2018