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The Killer Has Been Executed, but the Case Isn’t Closed

Executing a serial killer ought to close the case for good. But that was before Sheriff Parker Chord receives a package containing a human eye. The delivery arrives just after Eddie Ray Calhoone is put to death for seven murders committed by the Blood Smile Killer, known as Grin. Accompanying…

BookTribOctober 23, 2026

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

A Mother Plots Her Escape from a Picture-Perfect Marriage

When her daughter’s fiancé says he wants a marriage just like hers, Sterling Richardson can hardly tell him how appalling she finds the prospect. She has spent years making her family look this happy. Apparently, she’s done that a little too well. In Zelly Ruskin’s domestic suspense novel One of…

BookTribOctober 20, 2026

Author Spotlight

Bruce A. Hanson Explores the Darker Side of Love in “Murder & Other Love Stories”

Love can inspire happiness, heartbreak, obsession and even murder. In Murder & Other Love Stories, author Bruce A. Hanson explores the many faces of love through a captivating collection of short fiction that blends psychological suspense, mystery, romance and unexpected twists. Drawing inspiration from classic storytellers like Edgar Allan Poe…

BookTribOctober 13, 2026

Fiction

Childhood Friends Confront a Deadly Legacy in a Mystery Imbued With Magical Realism

This reviewer was immediately captivated by Cuban transplant award-winning crime author and educator Teresa Dovalpage’s 12th book Last Seen In Havana and has been catching up with her backlist. Recently released The Novel Detective is described as being “a metafictional mystery” with a “life as art” storyline. The author is…

Linda HitchcockOctober 7, 2026

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

A Mastermind Meets His Match

Diane Vitullo learned a great deal from her uncle Trevor Hawthorne. He taught her to recognize deception and anticipate an opponent’s next move. Those lessons have served her well as an NSA agent. They become considerably harder to apply when the person she needs to outwit is Trevor himself, especially…

BookTribOctober 2, 2026

Listicles Thrillers

Jon Land’s Latest Thrill List Includes Big Names and Killer Reads

Jon LandSeptember 30, 2026

Thrillers

The Tragic Fates of Two Teenage Girls Unravel Dark, Hidden Secrets in “The Dying Light”

Detective Inspector Matthew Venn returns for a third case in bestselling author Ann Cleeves’ latest mystery, The Dying Light. Eager to celebrate the end of their high school exams, teenage Hannah Armstrong and Lottie Cauldwell set out for Hannah’s family’s luxurious holiday home, The Tide House, along the Devon shore…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 29, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Nigerian Author’s Debut Is a Gothic Tale in a Wholly New Setting

“One child doesn’t make it out of this story alive. Perhaps it’s the wrong one. I think everyone else might have wondered the same thing at some point.” A destitute young woman with a deeply troubled past. A brooding, enigmatic stranger who offers to marry her. A large house on…

Neil NyrenSeptember 25, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

A Bodyguard’s Death Sparks a Madcap Murder Mystery in “We Chase Shadows”

It is not easy to start a detective agency from scratch. Especially one that specializes only in solving murders. In We Chase Shadows, the hilarious sequel to bestselling author Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders, crime fiction writer Rosie D’Antonio teams up with ex-cop Steve and his daughter-in-law and former bodyguard…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 25, 2026

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Ancient Secrets and Modern Ambitions Collide in Sci-Fi Thriller

Maya Lin has barely begun to mourn her father when someone tears through his immaculate Miami Beach home looking for a package her grandmother sent her. Inside is a gold medallion Maya cannot identify. The police officers who arrive seem unusually interested in it, too. Soon, the architectural historian flees…

BookTribSeptember 22, 2026

Listicles Thrillers

5 Fast-Paced Thrillers that Will Make You Turn Inward

Most people love thrillers because of the heart-pounding, edge of your seat adrenaline ride that they offer, along with the satisfaction of using our natural curiosity to solve a mystery. While it’s the plot that gets us to pick up the book in the first place, it’s the stories that…

Courtney PsakSeptember 22, 2026

Thrillers

“Succession” Hits the Las Vegas Strip as This Family Dynasty Faces the Mob

The Kings of Vegas is the fourth work of fiction co-written by Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman, authors of the highly praised 2013 novel Freud’s Mistress — and its roots are personal. When Karen Mack’s grandfather, Nate Mack, moved to Las Vegas in 1929 at the beginning of the Great…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 21, 2026

Thrillers

A Slew of Suspicious Deaths Pulls This Detective Out of Retirement in the Newest Jake Jackson Mystery

A Twist in the River is the fourth in the atmospheric, immersive Jake Jackson mystery series by British author Stig Abell: journalist, editor, and co-presenter of a weekday breakfast show on Times Radio, among many job titles held in a diverse career. Following the publication of several works of nonfiction, the…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 18, 2026

Fiction Popular Thrillers

Ann Garvin Turns Up the Suspense in “Tell Two Friends”

Ann Garvin’s new novel, Tell Two Friends, features a handful of her hallmarks: laugh-out-loud humor, deep friendship between women, a charmingly flawed yet relatable main character, and circumstances that feel impossible to navigate. But Tell Two Friends marks a departure for Garvin. Notably, she braids elements of suspense and foreboding…

Laura Anne BirdSeptember 8, 2026

Listicles Popular Thrillers

Jon Land Shares His Top Thriller Recs of the Month for Late Summer Reading

Jon LandAugust 31, 2026

Nonfiction

Rediscovering Muriel Spark’s Brilliant and Enigmatic Life

James Bailey earned a doctorate in literature and has proven himself to be an insightful, exceptionally rigorous researcher while becoming the foremost expert on the brilliant, enigmatic iconoclast Dame Muriel Spark. He wrote Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form. Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The…

Linda HitchcockAugust 31, 2026

The Killer Has Been Executed, but the Case Isn’t Closed

A Mother Plots Her Escape from a Picture-Perfect Marriage

Bruce A. Hanson Explores the Darker Side of Love in “Murder & Other Love Stories”

A Mastermind Meets His Match

Jon Land’s Latest Thrill List Includes Big Names and Killer Reads

Ancient Secrets and Modern Ambitions Collide in Sci-Fi Thriller

5 Fast-Paced Thrillers that Will Make You Turn Inward

Ann Garvin Turns Up the Suspense in “Tell Two Friends”

Jon Land Shares His Top Thriller Recs of the Month for Late Summer Reading

Rediscovering Muriel Spark’s Brilliant and Enigmatic Life

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