Forget everything you think you know about bitcoin. Steve Berry is about to enlighten — and perhaps alarm — you. In his latest international thriller, The Atlas Maneuver (Grand Central Publishing), book 18 in Berry’s bestselling Cotton Malone series, Cotton must not only unravel the mystery involving the lost treasure…
Mark Greaney has made an impressive career out of looking for the “dark side” of things. His eyes and ears are finely attuned to what’s trending on a geopolitical scale, and it’s here — with almost prescient perception — that Greaney finds the key to unlocking the plot of his…
Dawn IusFebruary 20, 2024
The Silk Road Affair (Archway Publishing) by Larry Witham is a sophisticated, complex thriller about a major art theft that ignites an international political crisis between the U.S. and China. It begins with the seemingly routine sale of an art collection from a royal family in Vienna to a mysterious…
R.G. BelskyFebruary 9, 2024
“It’s the details that sell the story. We tell a million small truths to make them believe the one big lie.” That is the essence of the spy game. Those details, and the style and manner in which they are conveyed, are what made I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes…
Jim AlkonFebruary 5, 2024
New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz — who also writes under the pen names of Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle — had always wanted to write an amnesia story. “It’s the ultimate mystery of ‘did I do it?’” she says, in an exclusive interview with BookTrib. “And it…
Dawn IusJanuary 29, 2024
“Everyone who was there, or pretends they were, says the same thing: the tabloids got it wrong. But they didn’t, not really. “The articles said: Charlotte Colbert escaped unscathed. Which is true. While the others were in surgery or stretched out in the morgue, I was in the shower, scrubbing…
Neil NyrenJanuary 26, 2024
Bigfoot didn’t do it. Patricia Cornwell — who, as the author of 40 books that have sold more than 120 million copies around the world, has left her own indelible mark — offers that disclaimer without hesitation. If it seems like an odd admission, it’s not. As her newest novel,…
John B. ValeriJanuary 23, 2024
Vamp is the seventh full-length novel in masterful author Loren D. Estleman’s Valentino, Film Detective series. These cinematic gems are as enticing as the buttery roasted aroma of fresh movie lobby popcorn. Film buffs and avid mystery readers can also ferret out several short stories featuring this intrepid film archivist…
Linda HitchcockJanuary 19, 2024
It’s well known that Alex Michaelides loves Agatha Christie. In fact, many people say that his writing mirrors her style. But in his third novel, The Fury, it becomes clear that his style is all his own. He is the master of the twist, but catches you in his web…
Lydia LefevreJanuary 16, 2024
What could drive someone to want to kill his own brother? The answer will leave readers of Blue Ridge by Peter Malone Elliott stunned. This debut psychological thriller follows a pair of identical twins, Cillian and Christopher, who are long estranged and filled with a deep hatred for each other.…
Madeline SuarezJanuary 9, 2024
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…
Writers, InkJanuary 8, 2024
James Patterson wants to clear up a myth. Contrary to popular belief, he is involved in every book bearing his well-known name — heavily. In fact, at any one time, Patterson — who currently holds the world record for the number of #1 New York Times bestsellers by a single…
Dawn IusJanuary 3, 2024
“I had always thought of my memory as something like a historical record. Evidence. “Now, I’m not so sure. Now, I have a new appreciation for the unreliable narrator. Now, I understand how a normal person could go mad. It takes one tug at one thread, and the whole illusion…
Neil NyrenDecember 29, 2023
When Things Fall Apart injects new life into the modern crime thriller with a hero like we’ve never seen before, and a deranged killer without equal. Rookie police detective Kit Hanover tracks down leads in her first homicide case, hampered by racial prejudice and misogyny from within her own department.…
Michael FerryDecember 20, 2023
Caz Frear certainly doesn’t make it a habit to complain about bad service — but the one time she did inspired the plot for her latest chilling novel, Five Bad Deeds. After leaving the restaurant, Frear says she started worrying that maybe she’d been too hard on the waitress. What…
Dawn IusDecember 19, 2023