On the evening of Easter Monday in 1282, worshippers hold vigil at the Church of the Holy Spirit outside Palermo. Yet despite the holy occasion, the Sicilian people are feeling far from peaceful. They are about to erupt like Mount Etna in what will take shape into a broader Mediterranean…
Peggy KurkowskiAugust 17, 2022
David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1990’s, using the pseudonym David Monnery, he published…
Linda HitchcockMarch 21, 2024
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose (Blue Box Press) Dear Reader, I’ve always loved reading time travel but it took a 19th century tiny portrait of a man’s eye — just a man’s eye — framed in small colorful opals to inspire me to write one myself. Who was he?…
AuthorBuzzMarch 25, 2024
Forget everything you think you know about bitcoin. Steve Berry is about to enlighten — and perhaps alarm — you. In his latest international thriller, The Atlas Maneuver (Grand Central Publishing), book 18 in Berry’s bestselling Cotton Malone series, Cotton must not only unravel the mystery involving the lost treasure…
Dawn IusFebruary 22, 2024
You love to travel. No, wait, I’m not overgeneralizing! Hear me out, because I have an argument all prepared. You might have instantly thought, “yes, she read my mind!” Maybe you’re a bold backpacker who is willing to risk the discomfort of hostels in order to get that authentic experience.…
Judy MorenoJanuary 31, 2022
Trust No One (TMR Press) pulls readers into historic events and clandestine locations across Europe in a search for the conspirators behind a high-profile assassination that could change the course of World War II. Accomplished author Glenn Dyer crafts a thrilling tale that moves through ancient crypts of Algiers and…
Michael FerryFebruary 12, 2024
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 advertising and…
Writers, InkNovember 13, 2023
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…
BookTribNovember 1, 2023
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 advertising and…
Writers, InkOctober 2, 2023
The third installment of CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s bestselling historical thriller series kicks off with infamous motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel about to jump over a tank of sharks in Chicago. By the end of All the Demons Are Here (Little, Brown), he’s a savvy politician with aspirations of becoming the…
Dawn IusJuly 31, 2023
Steve Berry wants you to shelve whatever you think you know about the Kennedy assassination. Or at least put it to the back of your mind while you’re reading The 9th Man, the first in an exciting writing partnership between Berry and co-author Grant Blackwood. The novel — a crackling…
Dawn IusJune 27, 2023
Chris Bohjalian is a very well-known novelist — he is a New York Times bestseller, has been translated into thirty languages, and has had his work adapted for movies and TV series. Last year saw the release of The Lioness, his gripping, historical thriller set in East Africa, and the…
Michael SearsJune 12, 2023
The Sundial Inn (FriesenPress) by Stephen John Ross is haunting in the best sense of the word. From the protagonist to the eponymous inn, this novel begins in eerie fashion from the very first sentence, which only continues in this paranormal thriller. We’re welcomed to a world that is extremely…
Darryl OliverMarch 23, 2023
Some might argue that the adventure novel has been undermined by the modern age. Being able to fly just about anywhere for a relatively reasonable price, or experience on the internet for free, the allure of a story that takes you to far-away places and unfamiliar cultures and exposes you…
Wyatt SemenukNovember 30, 2022
January 1950. Three a.m. in a small town outside Moscow. Asleep on a sofa in a grim apartment that he shares with his mother, 20-year-old Pasha Kalmenov is awakened and arrested by militiamen. Along with 19 other artists, he is put on a train headed north to the bleakest reaches…
Jim ParryMarch 5, 2020