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BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our editors take a pulse on what’s happening in the book world and hand pick stories, tidbits and reviews you may have missed. The Role Crime Writers Play in Police Brutality: A Frank Conversation With Promising Debut Author…

BookTribJuly 2, 2020

Thrillers

“The Girl From Widow Hills” Drowns in the Spotlight of Her Past and a Murder Investigation

Megan Miranda has followed up her 2019 Reese’s Book Club pick The Last House Guest with the highly anticipated The Girl from Widow Hills (Simon & Schuster). Twenty years ago, Arden Maynor was a child prone to sleepwalking. She disappears from her house in Widow Hills, KY, during a tremendous…

Ann LinebergerJune 24, 2020

Thrillers

A Dead Rabbi and His Contentious Congregation in “Two Jews = Three Shuls”

Being the rabbi for a highbrow, highly opinionated congregation can be murder. Literally. Ask Rabbi Saul Levinson, religious leader and guiding light of Beth Torah Synagogue on the north shore of Long Island, NY. Ask him figuratively, that is. After all, he’s dead. In Two Jews = Three Shuls (Resource Publications)…

Jim AlkonJune 22, 2020

Thrillers

“Spychip Armageddon:” NOW May Be the End of the World

"Captivation from the initial capital letter in Chapter One to the final period. A fictional journey that begs the question, 'could this be real?' Ray Perkins has a visual way with words like no other.” — Wayne Warner, Nashville recording artist and author of Backstage Nashville —∞— “The Spychip protocol…

Chelsea CicconeJune 17, 2020

Thrillers

Silicon Valley Tech CEO Joins FBI Murder Investigation in “Broken Genius”

How does a high-profile Silicon Valley tech CEO end up working a Midwest murder case as an FBI special agent? For Will Parker, it’s a long story that starts with a kidnapped college student and a failed business deal. He was young, good looking and on the top of his…

Paige VigliaroloJune 3, 2020

Thrillers

Serial Killers, Cults and Genetic Trackers! 8 May Thrillers to Keep You Up Late

You won’t find the esteemed Lincoln Rhyme anywhere in the pages of Jeffery Deaver’s The Goodbye Man (Putnam) but, once again, Colter Shaw proves supremely adept at driving the action that’s totally devoid of serial killers as well. That action finds the jaded and financially motivated Shaw this time tracking targets…

Jon LandMay 28, 2020

Thrillers

A Thriller Turned Upside Down in “Sister Dear”

The sibling rivalry story in Sister Dear (Mira) by Hannah Mary McKinnon is as old as Cain and Abel. The difference is that McKinnon throws a howitzer into the plot, turning this contemporary thriller unexpectedly inside out and upside down. Its title and cover sub-text, “She’d kill to be her,”…

Valerie Taylor, author of the "Venus Bixby Mystery" seriesMay 26, 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

Book Club Network Thrillers

“The Hierophant Card:” Tarot Reader Plays the Hand She Is Dealt

Truth to tell — I was about to embark on my first cozy mystery. You know, that subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated lightly, and the crime occurs in a small, intimate community. The detectives are almost always amateurs and are frequently women.…

Jim AlkonMay 19, 2020

Thrillers

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

“Danger in Plain Sight:” This Unlikely Duo Makes a Formidable Team

As former bartender and smuggler Cash Logan tells it, a scorpion meets a frog on the bank of a stream and asks the frog to carry him across. The frog asks how does he know the scorpion won’t sting him. The scorpion explains that if he stings the frog, he…

Jim AlkonMay 5, 2020

Thrillers

TV Newswoman Pursues Elusive Serial Killer in “The Last Scoop”

Curiosity is the hallmark of any journalist – especially those old-school news hounds working major city metros, where sources are sacred and scoops are the Holy Grail. “Sometimes that curiosity takes you places you wouldn’t normally go,” says Clare Carlson, news director of a major New York TV station who…

Jim AlkonMay 5, 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

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

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

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

Thriller Inception, Kevin Kwan’s Next Hit and Books to Bring the Beach to You

“The Girl From Widow Hills” Drowns in the Spotlight of Her Past and a Murder Investigation

A Dead Rabbi and His Contentious Congregation in “Two Jews = Three Shuls”

“Spychip Armageddon:” NOW May Be the End of the World

Silicon Valley Tech CEO Joins FBI Murder Investigation in “Broken Genius”

Serial Killers, Cults and Genetic Trackers! 8 May Thrillers to Keep You Up Late

A Thriller Turned Upside Down in “Sister Dear”

Double Homicide vs Quirky PI Team in “Rigged”

“The Hierophant Card:” Tarot Reader Plays the Hand She Is Dealt

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

“Danger in Plain Sight:” This Unlikely Duo Makes a Formidable Team

TV Newswoman Pursues Elusive Serial Killer in “The Last Scoop”

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

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

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

Mystery, Menace and Motherhood in “The Familiar Dark”

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