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A Glamorous Facade Cracks in Alyssa Sheinmel’s Chilling Mystery

It’s not true that painkillers eliminate pain. They only make it seem far away, as if it’s happening to someone else and you have no choice but to watch. Three intricately woven stories of addiction, resentment, and deceit converge at an exclusive rehabilitation facility for the rich and famous. The…

Michael FerryJanuary 20, 2026

Listicles Thrillers

The Thrill List Starts 2026 Off with a Bang!

January wastes no time reminding us why thriller and mystery fiction remain such irresistible winter reading. This month’s most compelling new releases span the full spectrum of suspense, from pulse-pounding conspiracies and courtroom battles to psychologically devastating reckonings with grief, identity, and buried secrets. These are stories fueled by obsession,…

Jon LandJanuary 16, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Colleen Hoover’s “Woman Down” Is a Thrilling Descent Into Desire and Consequence

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

Krista BegganJanuary 13, 2026

Thrillers

Punk, Profane, and Unstoppable: Sister Holiday Returns in “Divine Ruin”

In 2023, Margot Douaihy introduced crime fiction to an unforgettable new heroine in the form of a tatted-up, punk rock, cigarette-smoking, lesbian nun named Sister Holiday. Having spectacularly blown up her life in Brooklyn — her family, her girlfriend, her band — she’d fled to the only place that would…

Neil NyrenJanuary 13, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

“Bad Baby” Launches a High-Octane New Thriller Series

Bad Baby is the first book of a thrilling new series by author Stephen Martin. It opens when the brothers John and Merlin Cooper were in their teens living in a farm in Florida when they receive the news about their father’s death. This happened in the year 2001, specifically,…

José H. BogránJanuary 8, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Laura Dave Delivers Another Unputdownable Thriller

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave brings the reader on a journey of twist and turns as the main characters race across the globe to end the decades long threat to their safety. The first book in the series, The Last Thing He Told Me, hooked me…

Kristin KeatonJanuary 6, 2026

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Thrillers Featuring Motherhood

As a novelist and a mother, I’m often asked how I manage to write while parenting two young children. The implication of this question is that children demand so much of your time and attention, it’s impossible to have anything left for yourself let alone a creative practice. Children, so…

Amy MeyersonJanuary 5, 2026

Thrillers

In the Endless Arctic Night, a Murder

“Accidents, murders, suicides, illnesses. Dying of old age was rare in Cape Dorset.” Cape Dorset is a remote Arctic community, inhabited mainly by the Inuit and a few people who aren’t. Sergeant Elderick Cole is one of the latter. In Malcolm Kempt’s A Gift Before Dying, he’s part of the…

Neil NyrenDecember 26, 2025

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

8 Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers Coming in 2026

What’s better than starting the year off with a selection of brand-new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to reading? We’ve curated a list of books that are sure to keep you glued to your seat, eyes on the page, nerves on edge, and heart pounding! Our anticipated 2026 mysteries…

Stephanie ElliotDecember 17, 2025

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Prophetic Dreams, Ruthless Power and a Threat Only Faith Can Stop

In The Dark Birth of the Secret Council, Tracy Cavelli takes the reader on a journey with Trisha as she attempts to make sense of God’s messages to her in her dreams while evil forces are building a secret council. Two storylines — good and evil — Trisha, a writer…

BookTribDecember 9, 2025

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What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

The leap from reporting crime as a TV news producer to writing psychological thrillers is not as big a jump as you might think. For me, it’s been a logical next step, a distillation of so much of what I’d heard and seen and experienced in the nearly two decades…

Christina KovacDecember 5, 2025

Fiction

“The Terminal Gene” Explores a World Where Your Death Is Predicted

What would you do if you know your exact point of death? What if death is encoded into our DNA at birth? Imagine the possibilities. They’re hard to grasp, right? John H. Thomas delves into those very questions in his new novel, The Terminal Gene. The novel’s far from an…

José H. BogránDecember 2, 2025

Listicles Thrillers

November’s Most Thrilling Reads

November arrives with a surge of adrenaline as this month’s Thrill List spans eras, continents and every shade of suspense. Whether you crave breakneck plotting, morally tangled protagonists or atmospheric mysteries that pull you in deep, these standout titles promise to keep you turning pages long into the winter nights.

Jon LandDecember 1, 2025

Listicles Thrillers

Loved “All Her Fault”? These 5 Twisty Thrillers Will Keep You Up All Night

I have a confession to make. I watched All Her Fault before I read it. I was clearly the target demographic for Peacock’s newest thriller starring Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning, and after watching countless teasers and even seeing a bus in New York City wrapped corner to corner in…

Amy ImpellizeriDecember 1, 2025

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The Woods Hold Secrets — As Do the People Who Live There

“Middle children always knew how to remain unseen. They knew how to slip below the notice of others … Middle children were tricksters.” In Julie Doar’s The Gallagher Place, Marlowe Fisher, 36, is the middle child between two brothers, Nate and Henry, the three of them raised in a big…

Neil NyrenNovember 28, 2025

Fiction Thrillers

“If Necessary Alone” Is a Bracing WWII Spy Thriller with a Vicar’s Heart

Set on Scotland’s far northern coast in 1941, V. M. Knox’s If Necessary Alone sends Reverend Major Clement Wisdom undercover to trace enemy radio traffic. What follows is a lean, morally charged thriller—rich with atmosphere, careful tradecraft and a hero whose faith shapes every hard choice. A standout entry in…

BookTribNovember 25, 2025

A Glamorous Facade Cracks in Alyssa Sheinmel’s Chilling Mystery

The Thrill List Starts 2026 Off with a Bang!

Colleen Hoover’s “Woman Down” Is a Thrilling Descent Into Desire and Consequence

Thrillers Featuring Motherhood

In the Endless Arctic Night, a Murder

8 Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers Coming in 2026

Prophetic Dreams, Ruthless Power and a Threat Only Faith Can Stop

What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

November’s Most Thrilling Reads

Loved “All Her Fault”? These 5 Twisty Thrillers Will Keep You Up All Night

The Woods Hold Secrets — As Do the People Who Live There

“If Necessary Alone” Is a Bracing WWII Spy Thriller with a Vicar’s Heart

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