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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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