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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

Author Discovery Zone

Linda L. Richards Author Profile

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Linda-L.-Richards-Headshot-300x300.jpg Linda L. Richards Thriller/Crime Fiction Experienced author writing strong female protagonists in engrossing page-turners.

Judy MorenoFebruary 18, 2021

Author Spotlight Fiction Thrillers

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

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ITW Spotlight: Tom Ryan Talks True Crime and the Power of Empathy

After publishing a string of well-received young adult and middle-grade contemporaries, Canadian author Tom Ryan made a splash last year with his debut thriller, Keep This to Yourself. Ryan’s novel about a gay teen who sets out to uncover the identity of a serial killer who terrorized his hometown and then…

April SnellingsOctober 14, 2020

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Brooklyn Criminals Find a New Definition of Family

“You never know someone till you get your nose up their money.” — Shecky Keenan “Here’s rule one about carrying the bag. Never forget it’s something you could get killed for.” — Henry Vek —∞— Shecky Keenan has a family. They’re all criminals. In Brian Selfon’s The Nightworkers, Shecky runs…

Neil NyrenSeptember 25, 2020

Author Spotlight

Abduction and Betrayal in Lisa Regan’s Spine-Chilling Thriller “Vanishing Girls”

The formula for most abduction stories goes like this: victim is abducted, victim is rescued, end of story. Lisa Regan set out to break that mold in Vanishing Girls. Regan recalls, "What if the missing person was found, but that was the beginning of the story and not the end?…

BookTribAugust 31, 2020

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

From Nuanced Noir to Action-Packed Plots, These 8 Thrillers Are Not to Be Missed

Jon LandAugust 19, 2020

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Guilty or Not: 6 Legal Thrillers That Will Keep You Guessing Until The Last Page

Legal thrillers make for exciting reads because they combine the page-turning intensity of mystery books with the thrilling, rapid-fire back-and-forth of courtroom drama. One of my personal favorite tropes within the genre has always been the classic "guilty or not" mystery. Authors like Michael Connelly and Scott Turow are masters…

Wyatt SemenukMarch 16, 2022

Podcasts

Michael Connelly Sits Down with Roxanne Coady

Just the Right Book! Podcast, hosted by Roxanne Coady of Connecticut’s acclaimed, award-winning, independent bookseller R.J. Julia, is now available on BookTrib.com, the premier website where readers meet writers. The podcast and BookTrib are both dedicated to helping readers find their next favorite read and this pairing will open up…

Just The Right Book PodcastAugust 25, 2017

Miscellany Podcasts

Writer’s Bone Podcast Interviews Best-Selling Author Michael Connelly

In 2013, Sean Tuohy came to Daniel Ford with an idea some years after a meeting at a Halloween party where they hit it off immediately. Daniel saw Sean in his Clark Kent costume and professed his love of Superman and a friendship was born. Though their podcast wasn't officially…

BookTribJuly 31, 2017