Skip to main content
search
BookTrib.
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
Thrillers

George R.R. Martin and More Thrilling Reads

ThrillerFest, the thirteenth annual gathering of the crème de la crème, debut and aspiring thriller writers, took place last week and throughout the weekend in New York City. There’s only one event where you can find New York Times bestselling authors lurking around every single corner, literary agents actually appearing in broad…
Rebecca Proulx
July 16, 2018
Thrillers

Ten’s Gretchen McNeil: How to Make Serial Killers Fun

Gretchen McNeil is not only an incredibly talented author, she's also a professionally trained opera singer, a natural performer, and one of the nicest people we've ever met. The hit YA author is probably best known for her book Ten, which won numerous awards before being turned into a Lifetime original…
BookTrib
July 12, 2018
Thrillers

Riley Sager on Summer Camp and Stephen King

Last year, there was one book at the top of everyone's must-read list: Riley Sager's Final Girls, which was so good, Stephen King himself called it "The first great thriller of 2017." If that's not proof enough that Sager knows his way around the thriller, then just know that his follow up…
BookTrib
July 3, 2018
Thrillers

4 Indie Bookstores Offer Their Top Suspense Reads

Sunscreen? Check. Swim suit? Check. Summer suspense? Grab some of these. There’s nothing like a good, gripping tale to help you unwind. We randomly polled four independent bookstores that specialize in murder and mayhem about new bestsellers in the suspense category. Surprisingly, there were no overlaps as each store named…
Joanna Poncavage
June 28, 2018
Thrillers

Tara Isabella Burton’s Debut and Deadly Relationships

This year, we've seen a lot of books that seem to just raise the bar on what we can expect from literature in terms of mesmerizing plots, spellbinding characters and twists no one ever saw coming. But debut novel Social Creature, with its eye-catching cover that stops you in your tracks may…
BookTrib
June 21, 2018
Thrillers

Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke: This Book Nearly Broke Them

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. National Best Friend Day is celebrated on June 8, and here at Bookish we are super excited about it. Some of our best friends are characters in books, but literary friendships can take another form: best friends who co-write. Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke know all about that.…
Bookish
June 13, 2018