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Laurie Petrou, “Sister of Mine” Author Interview

We had the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Petrou, author of the chilling thriller Sister of Mine, now available to purchase.     Laurie Petrou is an author, professor, PhD, and a drinker of tea. Most of my adventures take place inside books. I am, I think, part Hobbit: I love my books,…
BookTrib
August 24, 2018
Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: Morphing Truth and Appearances

Trust Me (Forge Books) by Hank Phillippi Ryan has already garnered so much praise (i.e. Booklist starred review, Book Bub Top Summer Thriller, Popsugar Top Summer Thriller, CrimeReads Most Anticipated Thriller, New York Post Best Thriller of the Summer) that any further accolades seem almost superfluous. But, please indulge me, as I add…
Sandra Block
August 23, 2018
Thrillers

Seven August Thrillers: the FBI, Chases, and More!

Thriller writer and BookTrib contributor Jon Land has checked in with his top thriller picks for the month of August. Among the reviews: a heart-pounding mix of period mysteries, FBI missions, and cross-country chases to keep you on the edge of your seats for hours. featuring her crack team of…
Jon Land
August 21, 2018
Thrillers

“Fear The Reaper” – A Terrifying Truth Hiding in a Novel

Ten percent. That’s the number of the population deemed unfit to belong. In Fear the Reaper (Macabre Ink) by David Simms, this frightening novel recounts the American Eugenics Movement in the 1930s, a dark secret in our country’s history. Psychologist Sam Taylor has developed a test to identify people with…
K.L. Romo
August 18, 2018
Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: Perfect Drama For Moriarty Fans

Not That I Could Tell (St. Martin's Press) by Jessica Strawser examines life under the suburbia microscope. When a group of friends gather around a fire pit in one of their backyards, wine in hand, the conversation turns both dramatic and personal. A few days later, one of the women is…
Kate Moretti
August 16, 2018
Thrillers

Howard Michael Gould’s Hollywood Thriller “Last Looks”

Those are the thoughts of Charlie Waldo, an ex-cop who’s gotten sucked into a Hollywood murder case, in Howard Michael Gould’s first novel, Last Looks (Dutton). A one-time super-cop who spectacularly messed up a triple-murder investigation, he reacted to it all by burning his life down and retreating to the woods,…
Neil Nyren
August 10, 2018
Thrillers

Anubis: A Thriller Straight from U.S. Intelligence

You expect a thriller written by a retired member of the U.S. Intelligence Community who served in Iraq and Saudi Arabia to give you the inside dope on how terror and other stuff gets done. Anubis delivers. In this second installment of Eric C. Anderson’s New Caliphate trilogy (Dunn Books),…
Jim Parry
August 2, 2018
Thrillers

43 Thrillers: Everything You Need To Know For This Fall

As a reviewer and insider, Ryan Steck has been called "the Godfather of the thriller genre.” In this first contributed piece to BookTrib, Ryan names every thriller hitting the bookshelves this fall that genre aficionados should know about. Visit Ryan at www.therealbookspy.com. With half of this summer’s biggest titles already in bookstores,…
Ryan Steck
August 1, 2018
Thrillers

Laurie Petrou’s Sibling Rivalry on Steroids

In Laurie Petrou’s Sister of Mine (Crooked Lane Books), the lives of two orphaned sisters, Hattie and Penny, begin to fray as longstanding resentments, sibling rivalry and unpaid debts overflow and the ties of sisterhood start to snap. It’s a fast-paced thriller by Petrou, a debut novelist who also is an…
BookTrib
July 30, 2018
Thrillers

Emily Arsenault on Two Characters That Define Her Thriller

Emily Arsenault has a long career of writing some of the most engaging mystery, crime, and thriller books out there, and her latest book is no exception. The Last Thing I Told You (William Morrow), out in late July, introduces readers to two characters that will stay with you for a long time:…
BookTrib
July 26, 2018
Thrillers

Odd Couple Team Creates Inspiring Sci-Fi Thriller

  Two people who, at a glance, couldn’t be more different somehow met, and through open minds and hearts formed a connection that would be the genesis of not only an inspiring work of science fiction but also lasting friendship. I met Gareth Worthington by chance (or fate) about seven…
Stu Jones
July 25, 2018
Thrillers

School Mom or Sociopath? Harding’s “Her Pretty Face”

Robyn Harding, author of the dark domestic novel The Party (Gallery/Scout Press), has given us yet another pulse-quickening read, set within a seemingly normal friendship of mothers. In Her Pretty Face (Gallery/Scout Press), Harding follows the overweight, insecure Francis Metcalfe as she struggles to fit in with the other Forrester academy…
BookTrib
July 23, 2018
Thrillers

7 Suspense-Packed July Picks From Jon Land

Strap in for tastes of history, spies, and horror for this month! Expert thriller writer and regular columnist for BookTrib, Jon Land presents his top selections from the genre for July. William Martin solidifies his claim as king of the historical thriller in the glittering Bound for Gold (Forge), spiriting us…
Jon Land
July 20, 2018