Crime

An Ex-Navy SEAL and a Tech-Savvy Cop Team Up to Uncover an International Conspiracy

In Oakland, California, the pandemic and protests are at an all-time high. While these protests began peacefully, someone is intentionally turning them violent by planting pallets of bricks along the marching routes. Their invitation to violence proves successful as one protest leads to the death of an African American Oakland…

BookTribJuly 13, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

A Commuter’s Boring Train Ride Results in an Unexpected Destination for “The 6:20 Man”

In The 6:20 Man (Grand Central Publishing), David Baldacci’s latest standalone thriller, Travis Devine hates his new job. It makes him feel like he’s a hamster on a treadmill. Every morning he hops on the 6:20 a.m. train from Mt. Kisco into Manhattan to work as an entry-level financial analyst…

Jodé MillmanJuly 13, 2022

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5 American Thrillers on the Brink of World War III

What will the next world war look like? Across the world, people are filled with waves of mass paranoia and anxiety about what's to come. We've seen technological advancements, the invention of powerful nuclear weapons, and rising global tensions. Many Americans' concerns center on the perceived threat to democracy, security,…

BookTribAugust 1, 2022

Thrillers

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

It seems as if phones are mobile catalogs of our entire lives. They contain our banking information, the names and addresses of our friends and family and pictures of everything from our lovable furry animals to screenshots of that recipe we saw on Pinterest. If given access to yours, what…

Chelsea CicconeApril 14, 2020

Thrillers

Haunted Heroine Rushes “Toward the Light” in Debut Thriller

There’s nothing quite like discovering a new, exotic city through the pages of a thriller. Through fast-paced fiction, the sights and sounds and smells of a place come through in technicolor. A city feels so much more, well, thrilling. It beats any guidebook. Bonnar Spring’s beautifully executed first novel Toward…

Casey BarrettJanuary 16, 2020

Thrillers

“Sunrise Highway:” Fresh Approach in Serial Killer Thriller

First of all, as is the case in Peter Blauner’s Sunrise Highway (Macmillan), you cut back and forth in time, between... October 2012. As Hurricane Sandy hits New York City, a man in Rockaway, Brooklyn, hearing pounding on his front door, goes to the peephole. He sees a young woman,…

Jim ParryNovember 7, 2018

Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: “In Her Bones” Twists a Media Craze

In Her Bones (Atria Books) by Kate Moretti picks up absolutely on the media's obsession with serial killers. From Jack the Ripper to Charles Manson, the public devours all the information it can glean about the people among us who are capable of committing these inhuman acts. What caused the…

Aimie K. RunyanAugust 30, 2018

Thrillers

Jon’s Picks: 6 New Thrillers to See You Into Summer

What’s in a name, or two, for that matter? When it’s Michael and Daniel Palmer, the answer is plenty. Daniel, stepping in ably for his late, bestselling physician father has penned a terrific follow-up to The First Patient in The First Family (St. Martin’s, April 17). The attention here focuses…

BookTribMay 16, 2018

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Evil Stalks the Colonial Australian Countryside in Historical Crime Thriller

Criminals rule the rough harbor of 1875 Sydney, New South Wales, and the cobblestone streets are bloody. But the blood of a murdered flower girl, her throat savagely cut, is only one of the reasons police Inspector Cormag Macleod drinks too much. An ex-Londoner, he’s haunted by visions of his…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 17, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

In Glittering Berlin, Thrilling Obsessions Make Fiction and Reality Collide

The young woman speaking in Calla Henkel’s Other People’s Clothes (Doubleday) is Zoe Beech, an American art student who has fled to Berlin in 2008 for any number of reasons. She doesn’t know who she is and she hates the school she’s in now, which revolves around toxic masculinity: “In…

Neil NyrenJanuary 28, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

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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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

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

An Ex-Navy SEAL and a Tech-Savvy Cop Team Up to Uncover an International Conspiracy

A Commuter’s Boring Train Ride Results in an Unexpected Destination for “The 6:20 Man”

5 American Thrillers on the Brink of World War III

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

Haunted Heroine Rushes “Toward the Light” in Debut Thriller

“Sunrise Highway:” Fresh Approach in Serial Killer Thriller

Tall Poppy Review: “In Her Bones” Twists a Media Craze

Jon’s Picks: 6 New Thrillers to See You Into Summer

Evil Stalks the Colonial Australian Countryside in Historical Crime Thriller

In Glittering Berlin, Thrilling Obsessions Make Fiction and Reality Collide

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

Fortune Favors “The Ruthless” in Latest Crime Thriller

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

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