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Thrilling Rescue in Seedy Cityscapes Reveals Real-Life Horrors

It’s no irony that the user of a pornographic website — the exact type of person whose habits fuel the multimillion-dollar sex trade around the world — is the one who discovers a girl he knows on the site and has to deal with the ugly matter of informing his…

Jim AlkonSeptember 25, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Moriarty’s Latest Thrilling Novel Asks: Can Fate Be Changed?

Bestselling author Liane Moriarty returns with a gripping story of love and loss in Here One Moment. On a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia, Cherry Lockwood is a nondescript passenger who does something out of the ordinary. Forty-five minutes into the flight, she unbuckles her seat belt and…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 10, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Honolulu Detective Walks Fine Line Between Duty and Family

Robert Coburn’s Between Islands is an investigative mystery novel set in the beautiful sceneries of Hawaii. The narrative revolves around the life of Detective Joe Cheo, a dedicated Honolulu police officer. Joe is on a rollercoaster hunt for answers to two mysterious deaths and is juggling unfair prejudices at work…

Natalia KavaleSeptember 9, 2024

Thrillers

True Crime Meets Fiction in a Riveting Mystery That Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat

You’re invited to The Bachelorette Party, Sandra Block’s newest thrill-ride, where fact and fiction collide in a startling fashion, and nothing is quite as it seems. Alex is a true crime devotee researching the infamous 666 serial killer. She has the perfect life: a dream internship on a popular cable…

Nicole BaartSeptember 6, 2024

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Drawing on Experience to Craft a Heart-Pounding International Thriller

Spirited young lawyer Kit Chase, eager for adventure before she settles into marriage in New Zealand, takes a three-month job with an international law team in Kosovo. It’s only a year after the war between Kosovo rebels and forces of the Serbian/Yugoslavian government, and things are anything but stable. Amongst…

BookTribSeptember 4, 2024

Thrillers

She’s Not a Killer – She’s Karma

“Serial killer. I loathed those words. They weren’t fair – not when used against me. Had I made those men disappear? Okay. Yes – but I dealt in karma – not murder. It wasn’t like I skulked around, killing randos.” As Emma C. Wells’ This Girl’s a Killer opens, Cordelia…

Neil NyrenAugust 30, 2024

Thrillers

Dead Body and Runaway Teen Stump DCI Vera Stanhope in Ann Cleeves’ Latest

In Ann Cleeves’ latest mystery, The Dark Wives, DCI Vera Stanhope is never far from her past in the North Umberland patch she serves and calls home. When the precinct notifies Vera about a dead body found outside the Rosebank care home for troubled teens, it brings back disturbing memories…

Jodé MillmanAugust 26, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

At What Cost: 6 Cutthroat Medical Thrillers

Did you know that the phrase “first do no harm” is not technically part of the Hippocratic Oath? And while this verbiage may be in the spirit of a doctor’s duty to treat and protect their patients, results may vary; news stories of medical malpractice seem more and more common…

Cameron KimballAugust 22, 2024

Thrillers

Uncover Dark Secrets in “The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby”

Ellery Lloyd has written a richly nuanced, densely layered literary mystery thriller The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby. The author’s name is a pseudonym for the English husband-and- wife writing team of Paul Vlitos and Colleen Lyons. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Greenwich and…

Linda HitchcockAugust 14, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

7 Politically Charged Novels Set in Eastern Europe

Political tensions run high in these 7 electrifying novels. Set in Eastern Europe during some of history’s most tumultuous times, these stories showcase the endurance of the human spirit, the cost of freedom, and what it takes to survive.

BookTribAugust 13, 2024

Recommended Save the World Thrillers

First Installment in Epic Dystopian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel Series

Fans of dystopian thrillers with tense action sequences and heart-pounding plotting, get ready for a 12-part graphic novel series that exceeds expectations. In Scott Cox’s Chronicles of War series, readers follow a scavenger, Jordan, as he embarks on a quest to uncover how the world fell into despair at the…

Megan BeauregardAugust 7, 2024

Podcasts Thrillers

Books & Looks Podcast: Jaclyn Goldis on “The Main Character” and “Murder on the Orient Express”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisJuly 31, 2024

Thrillers

The Perfect Day – Until She Saw the Stranger at the Wedding

“The trouble with lies is that one begets another. They multiply like rats, one stacked on the other, until, before you know it, it’s rats all the way down.” Annie and Mark met on the 5:38 train to London Bridge. As they would discover, both had traumas in their past.…

Neil NyrenJuly 26, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

10 Thrilling Women-Centric Suspense Novels

This month on BookTrib, Women's Fiction Writers Association shares a list of women’s fiction books with edge-of-your-seat suspense.

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJuly 24, 2024

Recommended Thrillers

Screenwriter’s Fast-Moving Thriller Novel Is Downright Cinematic

A troubled, depressed man who is having disturbing dreams goes to a therapist seeking answers. But, when he and the therapist begin to explore his life for clues, the horrors from his past suddenly come alive as a real-life nightmare that puts him and his loved ones in grave danger.…

R.G. BelskyJuly 24, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

In the ever-evolving landscape of mysteries and thrillers, queer authors are bringing vital perspectives, narratological experimentation, and nuanced takes on criminality and justice. LGBTQ writers are crafting stories shaped by their lived experiences of chosen family, otherness, and code-switching. Queering crime fiction interrogates tropes and tests genre boundaries. Serving up…

Margot DouaihyJuly 17, 2024

Thrilling Rescue in Seedy Cityscapes Reveals Real-Life Horrors

Honolulu Detective Walks Fine Line Between Duty and Family

Drawing on Experience to Craft a Heart-Pounding International Thriller

At What Cost: 6 Cutthroat Medical Thrillers

7 Politically Charged Novels Set in Eastern Europe

First Installment in Epic Dystopian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel Series

Books & Looks Podcast: Jaclyn Goldis on “The Main Character” and “Murder on the Orient Express”

10 Thrilling Women-Centric Suspense Novels

Screenwriter’s Fast-Moving Thriller Novel Is Downright Cinematic

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

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