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Cyber Warfare, Classic Heroes, and International Crises

Jon Land is back in action giving you his top picks for November in all things thrilling and suspense. This month's picks feature some classic heroes, cyber warfare, and timely crises at an international scale. Don't miss out on any of his top seven thriller selections to pick up while…
Jon Land
November 16, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Exploring the Eerie Lake Superior

Sometimes, as readers, we don’t know what we’ve been longing for until after it arrives. For instance, the eerie pleasures of a suspenseful, atmospheric novel set on Lake Superior become evident when we wrap ourselves around a sentence such as, “No one who was alive when her body floated onto…
Nancy Bilyeau
November 13, 2018
Thrillers

Author Buzz Giveaway: Two Suspenseful Reads

In this week's Author Buzz giveaway, we have two great selections available! It's your choice, a gripping medical thriller penned by Geoffrey M. Cooper or Lexi Blake's suspenseful romance. Either way, we know you won't be disappointed! Dear Reader, In Protected (Evil Eye Concepts), when Wade’s high school sweetheart broke his heart,…
AuthorBuzz
November 12, 2018
Thrillers

The Elderly Female Antihero We Never Knew We Needed

Maud an 88-year-old introverted Swedish woman, seems so innocuous and frail....but of course maybe that's the perfect cover for getting away with murder. In Helene Tursten's An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good (Soho Press), the resources normal senior citizens rely on for rehabilitation quickly turn to tools of…
Rebecca Proulx
November 7, 2018
Thrillers

Opium and Identity: 19th Century Woman Battles Crime

Port Townsend, Washington, 1887. An ex-Pinkerton agent named Alma Rosales is hunting for opium stolen from her employer, criminal boss Delphine Beaumond, one of the most dangerous women in the Northwest. Also on the hunt is a dockworker named Jack Camp, a rough brawler with his own plans for the…
Neil Nyren
November 7, 2018
Thrillers

“Manuscript for Murder:” The Cozy Thriller

With Manuscript for Murder (Berkley), the second installment of the long-running Murder She Wrote series penned by Jon Land, the author pushes the series into new territory, blurring the boundary between cozy mysteries and thrillers. Or perhaps he is forming a new genre: the cozy thriller. Land took the mantle of…
James R. Hannibal
November 6, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Digging Up the Past with Lee Child

Iconic anti-hero Jack Reacher has made thriller writer Lee Child an internationally renowned author. In Past Tense (Delacorte Press)—the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series—a turn in the road takes Child’s avenging loner to his long-deceased father’s hometown, where the ghosts of his past aren’t necessarily dead and buried.…
Josie Brown
November 5, 2018
Thrillers

Alan Brenham Plays With Our Minds in “Game Piece”

A killer is messing with Barry Marshall’s head -- and with everything he holds dear. That sets the stage for Alan Brenham’s chilling, twisting, rocketing thriller, Game Piece (Black Opal Books), in which Marshall is the game piece that the killer is coldly, cruelly maneuvering. Alan Brenham is the pseudonym…
Jim Parry
October 30, 2018
ThrillersYoung Adult

5 YA Thriller Picks for the Halloween Season

The month of October brings plenty to be excited about: crisp Fall air, a slew of pumpkin-flavored beverages, and, of course, Halloween. The spooky season always draws me to books that contain elements of mystery. So, if you’re in need of some recommendations that’ll have you going to bed with…
Daphne Saloomey
October 29, 2018
Thrillers

Vanished Lives-Secrets in “Find Me Gone”

Find Me Gone  (Harper) is unusual in many respects -- in its story, its author, and the creation of the book itself. Belgian author Sarah Meuleman says it is the sum of everything she has been and done in her life: a singer-songwriter, a journalist, a television host, a writer…
Neil Nyren
October 25, 2018
Thrillers

U.S. Intelligence Creds Make “Byte” Too Real

EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly after this interview was conducted, BookTrib learned that Eric C. Anderson had passed away. Eric's literary contributions, through his fiction writing to his understanding of the complex intelligence and military challenges facing Western democracies, are incalculable. He was an exemplary and remarkable human being who will be…
Jim Parry
October 23, 2018
Thrillers

October Thrills: Jon Land’s Suspenseful Selections

This October, be sure to get in the mood of all things spooky and suspense with thriller writer Jon Land's selected highlights. Dracula, cyber warfare, and much more in his thriller round-up. In these days of perpetual political distraction, Red War (Atria) seems especially well-timed. That’s because Kyle Mills latest…
Jon Land
October 17, 2018
Thrillers

A Chat with “The Guilty Dead” Author P.J. Tracy

We chatted with P.J. Tracy, author of the thriller The Guilty Dead, now available to purchase. P.J. Tracy was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot To Thrill, Off the Grid, The Sixth Idea,…
Meagan Foy
October 16, 2018