Thrillers

The Search is On: 8 Mysteries with Missing Characters

Calling all mystery fans! This selection of novels features the darkest elements of the genre, including characters who mysteriously go missing. When bodies begin to vanish, these novels come to life. Rich with suspense, each of these books will have you fully embroiled in the twisting plot lines. Read on…

Gabby TorrentiNovember 23, 2020

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Trust No One: 9 Cases of Unreliable Narrators

When reading psychological thrillers, you quickly learn that you can’t trust anyone or anything. Certainly not what the characters say and do, and especially not your own interpretation of what’s really happening. Sometimes you can’t even trust the narrator. An unreliable — or even unstable — narrator adds an extra…

Cameron KimballDecember 1, 2020

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6 Chilly November Thrillers from Baldacci, Connelly and More

David Baldacci is at his absolute best in the dazzling Daylight (Grand Central), the latest in his FBI special agent Atlee Pine series. Only this time, she’s joined by another of Baldacci’s sterling creations in the form of military investigator John Puller. In lesser hands, such a setup would have…

Jon LandNovember 30, 2020

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From Nuanced Noir to Action-Packed Plots, These 8 Thrillers Are Not to Be Missed

Jon LandAugust 19, 2020

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California Sleuthin’: 6 Crime Series Set in the Golden State

What is it about California that makes it such rich stomping grounds for crime and mystery? Whether it's the moody fog of San Fran or the seedy underbelly of LA, California teems with a sense of danger and lawlessness in our collective imaginations that harkens back to a burgeoning Gold…

BookTribOctober 14, 2020

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Inside the Writing Brain: 8 Novels About Writing Novels

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/meta-fiction-feat..jpg The question came to me in my admiration of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood: how does someone write novelistic nonfiction when many of the main characters are dead? How can you write a true-crime novel if you don’t know the truth? And how can you ever find it? I’ll…

Hank Phillippi RyanOctober 22, 2020

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From Homicide to Russian Spies, These 8 Thrillers Will Leave You Haunted

Jon LandOctober 21, 2020

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9 Mysteries and Thrillers That Will Sate Your Hunger for Revenge

One of the first things I thought about when I started writing crime fiction was “whydunnit.” What would it take, I wondered as I began my first thriller, to push me to decide to kill someone? What is a believable motive for murder? Revenge, I thought. Oh, yes. We’ve all…

Hank Phillippi RyanJanuary 30, 2020

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8 February Thrillers to Fall in Love With

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s stellar Crooked River (Grand Central), the nineteenth to feature FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast, shows why this is the best mystery series going today. The premise is enough to make the likes of Jeffery Deaver and Thomas Harris blush: dozens of identical blue shoes are…

Jon LandFebruary 17, 2020

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11 Books That Deliver Suspense in Academia

It’s a seething microcosm of competition, envy, manipulation and the battle for supremacy. It’s high school. And those crowded classrooms — or the privileged halls of prep school — coupled with aspiration and aggression and enforced proximity make the halls of academe perfect places to set a novel of suspense.…

Hank Phillippi RyanMarch 5, 2020

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8 Thrillers with Twisted Physicians You’ll Be Glad Are Fictitious

First do no harm. That’s what every new doctor swears. It’s an oath, of course, but isn’t it also … an alibi? A doctor is the only person who a victim would willingly let inject with something when they don’t know what it is, swallow whatever pills they offer, drink…

Hank Phillippi RyanJune 4, 2020

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Keep the Lights On: Novels Starring Scary Houses

If you’re going over the river and through the woods this holiday season, to Grandmother’s house or wherever, what if you turned the corner, drove up the gravel lane, and there was — the house from Psycho? All turreted and gray, as gothic as a Charles Addams drawing. Wouldn’t you…

Hank Phillippi RyanDecember 19, 2019

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Jon Land’s Thrill List: Danger Lurks in Every Corner, From the Beaches of Hawaii to the Icecaps of the Arctic

Steve Berry, master of thrillers rooted in historical speculation, is back with a humdinger of a tale in The Omega Factor (Grand Central) featuring a crackerjack plot and terrific new hero. Like previous Berry protagonist Cotton Malone, Nicholas Lee has a unique portfolio that finds him serving as an operative for…

Jon LandJune 29, 2022

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Weather the Storm With 6 Natural Disaster Novels

The most appealing part of natural disaster stories isn’t just the threat of impending doom. It's the way that the impending doom forces people into action, making heroes out of regular people. There's nothing like the tension of a raging storm to force families closer together, build alliances and reveal…

Wyatt SemenukJuly 18, 2022

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Agents of Israel: 6 Thrillers Featuring Israeli Intelligence and Special Forces

May I interest you in a bit of spycraft? Or, perhaps, a few covert military operations? How about an assassin or two? I’ll admit, the allure of espionage and black ops missions is difficult to ignore in fiction. First, there’s the combat, those fast-paced sequences that get your pulse pounding.…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 27, 2022

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Jon Land’s Thrill List This March Features Harlan Coben, Lisa Scottoline and Brad Meltzer

Harlan Coben continues his fabulous flirtation with postmodern horror in The Match (Grand Central), a Frankenstein-esque tale that picks up where The Boy from the Woods left off. Wilde, who literally grew up in the wild as a boy, has abandoned his attempt to live in society, realizing the forest…

Jon LandMarch 28, 2022

The Search is On: 8 Mysteries with Missing Characters

Trust No One: 9 Cases of Unreliable Narrators

6 Chilly November Thrillers from Baldacci, Connelly and More

From Nuanced Noir to Action-Packed Plots, These 8 Thrillers Are Not to Be Missed

California Sleuthin’: 6 Crime Series Set in the Golden State

Inside the Writing Brain: 8 Novels About Writing Novels

From Homicide to Russian Spies, These 8 Thrillers Will Leave You Haunted

9 Mysteries and Thrillers That Will Sate Your Hunger for Revenge

8 February Thrillers to Fall in Love With

11 Books That Deliver Suspense in Academia

8 Thrillers with Twisted Physicians You’ll Be Glad Are Fictitious

Keep the Lights On: Novels Starring Scary Houses

Jon Land’s Thrill List: Danger Lurks in Every Corner, From the Beaches of Hawaii to the Icecaps of the Arctic

Weather the Storm With 6 Natural Disaster Novels

Agents of Israel: 6 Thrillers Featuring Israeli Intelligence and Special Forces

Jon Land’s Thrill List This March Features Harlan Coben, Lisa Scottoline and Brad Meltzer

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