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It’s Raining Thrillers: Jon Land’s 7 April Picks

While you're resigned to stay indoors through the sporadic April showers, let an excellent thriller keep you company.  Jon Land has seven fantastic suggestions. I have no idea how Lisa Scottoline does it, turning out book after book that tugs at our heartstrings while pulling a rip cord to unleash…
Jon Land
April 18, 2019
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A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Compelling readers to turn the pages in a novel with a hateful anti-hero and few sympathetic characters is tricky, but A.F. Brady succeeds and captivates in the complex, intricately plotted and propulsive psychological thriller Once A Liar (Park Row Books). A.F. Brady, the pseudonym of a Manhattan psychotherapist, is also…
Ann Lineberger
April 9, 2019
Thrillers

Better Watch Out: Killer Santa Takes Instead of Gives

Dennis McCort is a learned fellow. He’s a retired college German professor, literary translator, language buff, music expert, and author of several books, ranging from A Kafkaesque Memoir tracing his own experience in psychoanalysis to a comedy, The Man Who Loved Doughnuts. The description of one of his books says…
Jim Alkon
April 3, 2019
Thrillers

“RED Hotel” Authors Take Us Inside Their Global Thriller

BookTrib had the pleasure of chatting with Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller, authors of RED Hotel (Beaufort Books), an international reality thriller. In RED Hotel, geopolitical espionage meets timely tensions in a story where terrorism meets hospitality. Grossman, a thriller novel veteran, uses analogues for contemporary political figures to ground…
BookTrib
March 26, 2019
Thrillers

In This Thriller, Revenge is a Dish Best Served Pretty

With women and secrets, lies and deceit, friendships and forgiveness, Pretty Revenge (Gallery Books) delivers a suspenseful dose of crazy in this fifth novel, an emotional thriller, from Emily Liebert, slated for release this July. Ah, revenge! Eighteen years ago, Kerrie’s life was turned upside down. Hurt by the betrayal and…
Jennifer Blankfein
March 25, 2019
Thrillers

Jon Land’s Top March Thriller Picks

Simon sat on a bench in Central Park and felt his heart shatter. So begins the brilliantly executed Run Away (Grand Central) which just might be the best book Harlan Coben has ever written. For such a master storyteller, that’s a high bar indeed but one Coben effortlessly crests by…
Jon Land
March 21, 2019
Thrillers

Casey Barrett’s Odd Duck Investigator Probes Murder

Shadowed by ruthless criminals and lured in by his impossibly sexy yet newly vulnerable business partner, P.I. Duck Darley struggles to stay sober and alive as he runs a reckless murder investigation. The victim was his business partner's boyfriend, a journalist who was about to uncover the horrors of doping…
Anne Eliot Feldman
March 20, 2019
Thrillers

Chatting with C.J. Box on Upcoming Release “Wolf Pack”

This story originally appeared on The Real Book Spy.  Joe Pickett, America’s favorite game warden, is back in Wolf Pack (G.P. Putnam's Sons), the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box. When a high-tech drone leads to the death of wildlife in Wyoming, a female game warden follows…
Ryan Steck
March 18, 2019
Thrillers

It’s Cotton Malone vs. the Knights of Malta

No one sells over 20 million books without understanding how to hook a reader. Over the past 17 years, and now with his 18th novel, The Malta Exchange (Minotaur Books), Steve Berry has mastered the art of page-turning. That elusive art is really the lifeblood of publishing. It’s a simple…
Casey Barrett
March 15, 2019
Thrillers

Coben’s Search for Runaway Daughter Exposes Dark World

It was the businessman’s eldest daughter, Paige, who he hadn’t seen in six months. He approaches her and begs her to come home, but she runs. That’s how New York Times bestselling thriller master Harlan Coben sets up his latest novel, Run Away (Grand Central Publishing). The story follows Simon…
Jim Alkon
March 14, 2019
Thrillers

Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

The enigmatic title The Sleeping Lady (She Writes Press), conjures a feeling of mystery and excitement, an impression that only intensifies after opening the book. The namesake of The Sleeping Lady is the hazy outline of Mount Tamalpais. This summit helps frame the skyline over small towns north of San…
Mary Ann Ryan
March 13, 2019
Thrillers

Widower Clashes With Demons Holding Wife’s Soul

As someone not obsessed with the genre, I couldn’t put down Michael Phillip Cash’s Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island (Red Feather Publishing). Upon realizing the book is only 161 pages, one might wonder how quickly and deeply the author can advance his story. Stop wondering – this one packs…
Jim Alkon
March 11, 2019