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Mary Kubica Built Suspense Novel “She’s Not Sorry” Around a Killer Twist

Mary Kubica loves a good twist. Of course, her novels are full of them, almost always organically dropped in as she deftly writes her way through the mystery that needs to be solved. But for latest thriller, She’s Not Sorry, Kubica says the twist came to her … first. “In…

Dawn IusApril 4, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Dangerous Rescue and a Killer on Death Row in Lisa Gardner’s Remote Island Thriller

Lisa Gardner was on a remote island three hours by plane off the coast of Hawaii, surrounded by giant cannibal coconut crabs and dripping wet from the unrelenting humidity when she knew this nightmarish, and yet somehow magical, paradise would inspire the setting for Still See You Everywhere, the third…

Dawn IusMarch 29, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Lisa Unger Puts a Spin on the Haunted House Novel in “The New Couple in 5B”

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger has a tried-and-true method for writing her novels — not a word makes it to the page until the voices start talking. In her latest book, The New Couple in 5B (Park Row), those voices belong to Chad and Rosie, a couple who…

Dawn IusMarch 21, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Reporter’s Probe Forces Secrets to Surface in Claire Coughlan Debut

Each month yields a fresh bumper crop of thrillers. They may be labeled “atmospheric, literary, spine-tingling, noir” or whatever the currently favored catch-phrase is for publicists to extol their clients’ virtues making it difficult for readers and reviewers not to become cynical about these sometimes over-hyped new releases. However, there…

Linda HitchcockMarch 18, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

The Chill Quill: Meet the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees

March is women-in-horror month, and this year, women are claiming their space on the Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot. Last year, women ran the Superior Achievement in an Anthology category — a Stoker Awards® first — with anthologies from editors Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Sawyers (Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology),…

Lindy RyanMarch 15, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Latest from the Queen of Irish Crime Fiction Comes Tana French’s “The Hunter”

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher comes a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. The Hunter by Tana French picks up two years after The Searcher — though it can stand alone — and takes readers on a twisting ride that will stick with…

BookTribMarch 4, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

AuthorBuzz: Tea Shop Mystery and Giveaway for Domestic Thriller

Sorry, this promotion has ended. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! Murder in the Tea Leaves, Tea Shop Mystery #27 by Laura Childs (Berkley – Penguin Random House) Dear Reader, When tea maven Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of a spooky movie, sparks fly…

AuthorBuzzMarch 4, 2024

Thrillers

“Leave No Trace” Kicks Off National Parks Thriller Series from Jon Land and Jeff Ayers

Leave No Trace (Minotaur Books) by A.J. Landau — pseudonym for the writing duo of internationally bestselling author Jon Land and Jeff Ayers — immediately plunges readers into the action with a brutal act of terrorism. An explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Destroying America’s beloved symbol of…

Dawn IusFebruary 27, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

WWII Suspense, Neo-Gothic Noir and Assassins in Jon Land’s Latest Thrill List

Jon LandFebruary 26, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Steve Berry’s “The Atlas Maneuver” Thrills with Lost Treasure, CIA Intrigue and Weaponized Bitcoin

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…

Dawn IusFebruary 22, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Mark Greaney’s Gray Man Faces Deadly Artificial Intelligence in “The Chaos Agent”

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

Recommended Thrillers

Thrilling Race to Recover Stolen Art in the Midst of International Political Crisis

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

Thrillers

Spy vs. Spy: Ten Years After “I Am Pilgrim,” Terry Hayes Unveils “The Year of the Locust”

“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

Jayne Ann Krentz - Interview - The Night Island

Miscellany Romance Thrillers

Jayne Ann Krentz’s New Romantic Suspense Installment Brings Amnesia and Psychic Intuition

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 can Forgive me is Dead by Jenny Hollander

Thrillers

Which is Most Dangerous? What We Remember – Or What We Forget?

“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

Unnatural Death by Author Patricia Cornwell

Miscellany Thrillers

Patricia Cornwell’s 27th Scarpetta Novel Features Another “Unnatural Death”

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

Mary Kubica Built Suspense Novel “She’s Not Sorry” Around a Killer Twist

Dangerous Rescue and a Killer on Death Row in Lisa Gardner’s Remote Island Thriller

Lisa Unger Puts a Spin on the Haunted House Novel in “The New Couple in 5B”

The Chill Quill: Meet the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees

AuthorBuzz: Tea Shop Mystery and Giveaway for Domestic Thriller

WWII Suspense, Neo-Gothic Noir and Assassins in Jon Land’s Latest Thrill List

Steve Berry’s “The Atlas Maneuver” Thrills with Lost Treasure, CIA Intrigue and Weaponized Bitcoin

Mark Greaney’s Gray Man Faces Deadly Artificial Intelligence in “The Chaos Agent”

Thrilling Race to Recover Stolen Art in the Midst of International Political Crisis

Jayne Ann Krentz’s New Romantic Suspense Installment Brings Amnesia and Psychic Intuition

Patricia Cornwell’s 27th Scarpetta Novel Features Another “Unnatural Death”

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