Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Slaughter on Writing Violence and Her Latest, “The Silent Wife”

"Emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural." —Library Journal "An unflinching, deeply empathetic exploration of the stigma surrounding rape and the enduring trauma suffered by its survivors." —Publisher's Weekly “Her talent is the equivalent of Poe or a Hawthorne…

Dawn IusAugust 3, 2020

Author Spotlight Fiction Thrillers

Corey Lynn Fayman’s Inspiration For “Ballast Point Breakdown:” A Mystery of Plot-Twists and Surprises

“A cozy hero living in a noir world.” That’s how Corey Lynn Fayman describes Rolly Waters, a guitar-playing gumshoe and recurring protagonist who breaks the investigator mold in his mystery series and most recent work Ballast Point Breakdown (Konstellation Press). “He doesn’t carry a gun. He’s not physically intimidating. He…

BookTribAugust 5, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Kate Reed Petty Bends Genres, Tells Lies and Searches for the “True Story”

"Monsters are real. Ghosts are, too. They live inside us – and sometimes they win." The woman quoting Stephen King in Kate Reed Petty’s debut novel True Story (Viking) is Alice Lovett, a ghostwriter who makes a living telling other peoples’ stories, but she’s never told her own, though her…

Neil NyrenJuly 3, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Ryan Wick on His Action-Packed Debut and Its Anti-Hero

“Some people in my trade act like animals, tearing through houses like a tornado, giving us all a bad name. Snapping shelves, breaking vases, smashing picture frames and tossing stuff around for no rhyme or reason. It’s incredibly rude. Taking property that doesn’t belong to you is one thing, but…

Neil NyrenJuly 10, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Riley Sager on His Thriller-Within-Thriller in “Home Before Dark”

Since his reinvention with 2017’s award-winning thriller Final Girls, Riley Sager has been checking off a lot of writerly bucket list items — New York Times bestseller status, multiple foreign language deals, film options. The list goes on. But with his latest release, Home Before Dark (Dutton), Sager ticks off an item…

Dawn IusJuly 2, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Jeffrey B. Burton on How His Idea for “The Finders” Was Almost Lost

Human beings have five million scent receptors. Some breeds of dog have 300 million, which is what makes them such good trackers. For Chicago PD consultant Mason “Mace” Reid, however, he’s never met any dog like the golden retriever named Vira. In Jeffrey Burton’s The Finders, Reid is a trainer…

Neil NyrenJune 25, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Kimberly Belle on Writing Her Eerie Appalachian Thriller “Stranger in the Lake”

We all could use a break from reality and get caught up in a fast paced psychological thriller about a wealthy widower, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and a mysterious woman’s body found floating in the lake. In Stranger in the Lake (Park Row) by Kimberly Belle,…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 10, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Johansen on the Imaginative Abilities of “The Persuasion” and Writing with Her Son

In The Persuasion (Grand Central) — bestselling author Iris Johansen’s 26th book in her Eve Duncan “forensic sculptor” series — Eve’s daughter, Jane MacGuire, is the target of a dangerous sociopath who’s determined to have her for himself, and use her to lure her longtime love interest, Seth Caleb, into…

K.L. RomoJune 10, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

“You Can Go Home Now,” Plus Michael Elias on His Fascinating Stage and Screen Career

How far would you go to avenge a crime? Nina Karim is about to find out. In Michael Elias’s You Can Go Home Now (Harper), Karim is a homicide detective investigating the deaths of several men connected to victims in a battered women’s shelter in Queens. Going undercover, she encounters a…

Neil NyrenMay 22, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

T.R. Ragan on Her Transformation from Self-Published Romances to Bestselling Thrillers

Twenty-five years ago, after reading Jude Deveraux’s A Knight in Shining Armor and being taken away to another world, I knew instantly that I wanted to write a romance novel and provide readers with that same wonderful sense of escapism I had experienced. My first novel, Return of the Rose,…

BookTrib Guest AuthorMay 13, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Paretsky Shares Her Methods and Inspirations Behind “Dead Land”

"Paretsky always makes the top of the list when people talk about female operatives.” —New York Times “Among today’s PIs, nobody comes close to Warshawski.” —Publishers Weekly Almost 30 years have passed since Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski burst onto the literary scene, quickly establishing herself as one of the…

Dawn IusMay 15, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Jeffery Deaver on Survivalists, Cults and His New Thriller “The Goodbye Man”

“Deaver balances suspense and plausibility perfectly … A perfect jumping-on point for readers new to one of today’s top contemporary thriller writers.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review —∞— Author Jeffery Deaver, known best for his Lincoln Rhyme series, wrote his first book at age 11. He has always known he…

Chelsea CicconeMay 18, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Marcia Clark on Prosecution, Defense and Anti-Hero Sam Brinkman

Los Angeles defense attorney Samantha “Sam” Brinkman is an antihero extraordinaire. We love her, but she’s done some terrible things, and she’s not apologetic in the least. In Final Judgment (Thomas & Mercer), bestselling author Marcia Clark sets Sam up in a case too close to home: she investigates and…

K.L. RomoApril 23, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Debra Bokur on Probing the Dark Side of Paradise in “The Fire Thief”

“When it’s serene, there’s no place more peaceful; when it’s storm season or the volcano is erupting, the landscape is steeped in a primitive kind of violence. These factors influence the people who live within this environment, for good or ill. There seems to be a general and often naïve…

Neil NyrenApril 27, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Reichs on Her Return to Tempe in a “A Conspiracy of Bones”

It’s never an easy decision for an author to take a writing hiatus — not when you’re dealing with a series character, and especially when that character is as well-known as Temperance Brennan, the plucky forensic anthropologist at the heart of Kathy Reichs’s New York Times bestselling series. But for…

Dawn IusMarch 20, 2020

Author Spotlight Thrillers

“The Red Lotus” Author Bohjalian on Pathogens, Process and Pending HBO Series

From the bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisted and timely new mystery/thriller. In The Red Lotus (Doubleday), Chris Bohjalian presents a blossoming love sprinkled with lies — one that causes us to ask ourselves how well we know the people we care about. Alexis, an…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 20, 2020

ITW Spotlight: Slaughter on Writing Violence and Her Latest, “The Silent Wife”

Corey Lynn Fayman’s Inspiration For “Ballast Point Breakdown:” A Mystery of Plot-Twists and Surprises

Kate Reed Petty Bends Genres, Tells Lies and Searches for the “True Story”

Ryan Wick on His Action-Packed Debut and Its Anti-Hero

ITW Spotlight: Riley Sager on His Thriller-Within-Thriller in “Home Before Dark”

Jeffrey B. Burton on How His Idea for “The Finders” Was Almost Lost

Kimberly Belle on Writing Her Eerie Appalachian Thriller “Stranger in the Lake”

ITW Spotlight: Johansen on the Imaginative Abilities of “The Persuasion” and Writing with Her Son

“You Can Go Home Now,” Plus Michael Elias on His Fascinating Stage and Screen Career

T.R. Ragan on Her Transformation from Self-Published Romances to Bestselling Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Paretsky Shares Her Methods and Inspirations Behind “Dead Land”

Jeffery Deaver on Survivalists, Cults and His New Thriller “The Goodbye Man”

ITW Spotlight: Marcia Clark on Prosecution, Defense and Anti-Hero Sam Brinkman

Debra Bokur on Probing the Dark Side of Paradise in “The Fire Thief”

ITW Spotlight: Reichs on Her Return to Tempe in a “A Conspiracy of Bones”

“The Red Lotus” Author Bohjalian on Pathogens, Process and Pending HBO Series

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