Crime

Don’t Look Now, There’s “The Stranger Behind You”

Every time I read one of Carol Goodman’s books, I get the chills. It’s not only because her stories are so deliciously on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspenseful, but her writing is so damn good. She keeps me turning the pages, and her newest novel, The Stranger Behind You (William Morrow), is no different.…

Jodé MillmanJuly 6, 2021

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A Killer for Hire With Nothing to Lose in the Terrifying “Endings”

We’ve all read that crime-thriller or seen that mystery show where the killer turns out to be a hitman — a hired gun. One with no relationship to the victim and no motive other than a paycheck, they are nearly untraceable. Usually, the story progresses quickly beyond the hitman to…

Paige VigliaroloApril 6, 2021

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Fortune Favors “The Ruthless” in Latest Crime Thriller

David Putnam’s latest novel starts with an undercover cop and a fidgety meth addict in a stolen car, idling in the parking lot of a seedy bar. It only takes a few pages to introduce readers to at least two possible plotlines with the promise of more, and by the…

Sherri DaleyFebruary 2, 2021

Fiction

A “Lover Boy” and Murder Mayhem

There’s the old saying, “Man plans, and God laughs.” As he plans a most unorthodox strategy to attain lifelong financial security, Dr. Joseph Peck, ophthalmologist and narrator in Stephen Kronwith’s sharp, witty and wildly entertaining novel Lover Boy, reflects on hearing some weird sounds in the night, “Now that I…

Jim AlkonJanuary 15, 2021

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Susan Orlean Exposes Importance of Local Libraries

We know that today, libraries do not just house books, but they provide so much more to their community. In April 1986 a suspicious fire started at the Los Angeles Public Library and destroyed over 400,000 books and countless irreplaceable historical materials. Some of the lost relics included a cherished…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 26, 2018

Fiction

Noir Detective Mysteries Author Sam Wiebe on His Latest Novel ‘Invisible Dead’

Do you enjoy a thrill that makes you think about the world around you? In the new novel Invisible Dead, this happens on a whole new level. Invisible Dead is a novel about systemic violence, the kind we often don’t notice or don’t think about. Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland sets…

Maggie MeyersJuly 14, 2017

Fiction

Impact On Countries & Time: Joan Silber’s “Improvement”

Connecting 1970s Turkey and New York today, 72-year-old author Joan Silber, winner of the 2018 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, weaves a tapestry of interpersonal connections and shows how relationships bind us together and decisions have widespread impact across countries and over time in her latest novel, Improvement (Amazon Digital Services). Reyna…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 6, 2018

Fiction

Forgery, Felonies and the World of Fine Art Combine in This Exhilarating Thriller

In her newest thriller, Fake (Harper), author Erica Katz delves into the fine art world of priceless paintings, premier art galleries, felony fraud and a painter desperately trying to find her place. The Plot: Twenty-six-year-old Emma Caan learned from her professor at Yale that her paintings were unexceptional — technically superior…

K.L. RomoMarch 30, 2022

Fiction Miscellany Podcasts Potpourri - Featured Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: From Screen to Page With NYT Bestseller Meg Gardiner

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in…

Writers, InkAugust 29, 2022

Fiction Recommended

Novel Explores Surviving the Hood Like a Game of Cards

As Fat Bread, a kid trying to navigate the rough streets of inner-city Detroit in the 1980s, explores one of the many hustles presented to him, Bram, a slick operator and “businessman,” invites him for a game of chess. Asked to make the first move of a game he doesn’t…

Jim AlkonNovember 17, 2022

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A Private Detective in a Real-Life Noir

In movies and even in books lawyers are always warning people not to confess to them, but in real life it doesn’t work that way. In real life you want to hear everything you can and later on you’ll make whatever compromises you have to, or you won’t. That’s the…

Neil NyrenJune 24, 2022

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BookTrib Giveaway: Can True Love Shine Through a Fog of Crime and Mental Illness?

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BookTribJune 9, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Michael C. Bland on “The Price of Safety” and the Pricelessness of Hope

Michael C. Bland’s The Price of Safety (World Castle Publishing) is unforgettable and edge-of-your-seat fiction. The award-winning author of The 13th Continuum, Jennifer Brody, praised this novel profusely, saying that “Exceptional worldbuilding and non-stop action combined with heart and compelling characters make Bland’s debut a must-read sci-fi book.” The year…

Judy MorenoJanuary 5, 2022

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Edith Tarbescu Dishes on the Murder She Wrote

Edith Tarbescu’s absorbing mystery novel One Will: Three Wives (Adelaide Books) is here to kill it in the murder-book scene. The action takes place in an expertly portrayed New York City in wintertime, full of cozy coffee shops and snowy landmarks. But don’t the postcard-worthy imagery fool you into thinking…

BookTribNovember 1, 2021

Author Discovery Zone

Linda L. Richards Author Profile

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Judy MorenoFebruary 18, 2021

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Tara Lush Talks About the Creativity Behind Her New Murder Mystery Series

Coffee and crime? Count us in! Grounds for Murder’s tongue-in-cheek title alone gives us a glimpse of the fun to come when reading the novel. Somehow, author Tara Lush manages to do it all in her playful first book in her Coffee Lovers Mystery Series starring a formidable (yet relatable!)…

Judy MorenoJanuary 25, 2021

Don’t Look Now, There’s “The Stranger Behind You”

A Killer for Hire With Nothing to Lose in the Terrifying “Endings”

Fortune Favors “The Ruthless” in Latest Crime Thriller

A “Lover Boy” and Murder Mayhem

Susan Orlean Exposes Importance of Local Libraries

Noir Detective Mysteries Author Sam Wiebe on His Latest Novel ‘Invisible Dead’

Impact On Countries & Time: Joan Silber’s “Improvement”

Forgery, Felonies and the World of Fine Art Combine in This Exhilarating Thriller

Writers, Ink Podcast: From Screen to Page With NYT Bestseller Meg Gardiner

A Private Detective in a Real-Life Noir

BookTrib Giveaway: Can True Love Shine Through a Fog of Crime and Mental Illness?

Michael C. Bland on “The Price of Safety” and the Pricelessness of Hope

Edith Tarbescu Dishes on the Murder She Wrote

Linda L. Richards Author Profile

Tara Lush Talks About the Creativity Behind Her New Murder Mystery Series

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