Historical Thrillers

Fiction

A Second, Closer Look at Amor Towles’ “A Gentleman in Moscow”

With the popularity of Amor Towles at an all-time high from the recent launch of the TV series “A Gentleman in Moscow” based on his bestselling novel and his just-published and highly acclaimed Table for Two collections of short stories, multi-award-winning author William Maz (The Bucharest Dossier and The Bucharest…

William MazMay 3, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

Forensic Investigations, Murders Through History and Twisted Psychological Thrillers

Jon LandApril 10, 2024

Thrillers

WWII Spy Thriller Series Takes on Post-War Hollywood

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

Miscellany Romance

AuthorBuzz: Time Travel Historical Fiction and a Hilarious Rom-Com

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

Miscellany Thrillers

Steve Berry’s “The Atlas Maneuver” Thrills with Lost Treasure, CIA Intrigue and Weaponized Bitcoin

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

Podcasts Thrillers

Writers, Ink Podcast: Daniel Sweren-Becker Takes a Stab at Explaining Our Complicated Relationship with True Crime

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

Fiction Miscellany Thrillers

Jake Tapper’s Historical Thriller Takes Wild Ride Through the 70s

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

Miscellany Thrillers

NYT Bestselling Author Steve Berry Shares Insight on New Nail-Biting Thriller

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

Fiction Thrillers

Luxurious African Safari Turns Deadly in Gripping Historical Thriller

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

Thrillers

“The Leonardo Gulag” Explores Art Forgery Under Stalin’s USSR

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

Giveaways

BookTrib Giveaway: History Is Adventure in These Thrilling Reads

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/booktrib_giveaway_2021-12-09-feature-scaled.jpg Burning Ground by D.A. Galloway —∞— "When I finish a genuinely great read, it leaves me with a sense of melancholy because the adventure the author took me on through his work is now over, and I'm left wanting more. Burning Ground is exactly that sort of book." —Brian…

BookTribDecember 9, 2021

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James Rollins’ Latest Sigma Force Thriller Gives “It’s Gone Viral” a Sinister New Meaning

Deep in the bowels of the jungle in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an ancient virus, dormant for millennia, erupts and spreads at an alarming rate. In bestselling author James Rollins’ newest jaw-clenching thriller, Kingdom of Bones (William Morrow), Book 16 of his Sigma Force series, the “scientific warriors”…

K.L. RomoApril 21, 2022

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Baldacci’s PI Archer Follows Danger to Hollywood in “Dream Town”

In David Baldacci’s third Archer adventure, Dream Town (Grand Central), the Pacific Coast Highway leads PI Aloysius Archer and his spiffy 1939 blood-red Delahaye convertible from Bay Town, CA, to Hollywood. As if transported by a time machine, Baldacci immerses readers into the 1950s, an era of flashy films and…

Jodé MillmanApril 20, 2022

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Hillary Clinton Teams Up With Bestselling Author Louise Penny for Geopolitical Thriller “State of Terror”

In State of Terror (Simon & Schuster/St. Martin’s Press) by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny, the United States’ diplomacy has been left in ruin after four long years rocked by scandal, self-interest and stupidity. Sound familiar? As a result, the newly-minted Secretary of State Ellen Adams has her job…

Jodé MillmanOctober 26, 2021

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead Returns With Huge Heists and Shakedowns in “Harlem Shuffle”

Colson Whitehead embarks on a double-sided exploration of 1960s Harlem in his latest work of fiction, Harlem Shuffle (Doubleday). For a Black man trying to survive and keep his furniture business afloat in tumultuous times, Ray Carney finds that street smarts are just as important as his college degree. Balancing…

Michael FerrySeptember 14, 2021

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‘Zero Hour:’ A fast-moving thrill ride sure to satisfy Tom Clancy fans

Tom Clancy Zero Hour (G.P. Putnam's Sons), the latest book in the Clancy universe to feature Jack Ryan Jr., is basically an action movie — and there’s nothing wrong with that, especially during a summer that features the return of the ultimate feel-good military action film, Top Gun: Maverick. As…

Dennis HetzelJuly 1, 2022

Forensic Investigations, Murders Through History and Twisted Psychological Thrillers

AuthorBuzz: Time Travel Historical Fiction and a Hilarious Rom-Com

Steve Berry’s “The Atlas Maneuver” Thrills with Lost Treasure, CIA Intrigue and Weaponized Bitcoin

Writers, Ink Podcast: Daniel Sweren-Becker Takes a Stab at Explaining Our Complicated Relationship with True Crime

Jake Tapper’s Historical Thriller Takes Wild Ride Through the 70s

NYT Bestselling Author Steve Berry Shares Insight on New Nail-Biting Thriller

“The Leonardo Gulag” Explores Art Forgery Under Stalin’s USSR

BookTrib Giveaway: History Is Adventure in These Thrilling Reads

James Rollins’ Latest Sigma Force Thriller Gives “It’s Gone Viral” a Sinister New Meaning

Baldacci’s PI Archer Follows Danger to Hollywood in “Dream Town”

Hillary Clinton Teams Up With Bestselling Author Louise Penny for Geopolitical Thriller “State of Terror”

Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead Returns With Huge Heists and Shakedowns in “Harlem Shuffle”

‘Zero Hour:’ A fast-moving thrill ride sure to satisfy Tom Clancy fans

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