International Thriller Writers

From Action to Suspense, These Thrillers Are the Best of the Best

Each year, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) organization honors excellence in thriller writing through the prestigious ITW Thriller Awards. Presented during ThrillerFest, an annual gathering of authors, fans and industry professionals, the awards spotlight the best the genre has to offer across a range of categories. Now in its twentieth…

BookTribJune 23, 2025

The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton

Thrillers

Strong Women, A Creepy Mansion and A Tribute to Miami

The House on Biscayne Bay, published in April by Berkley/Penguin Random House, marks several milestones for Miami-based New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Chanel Cleeton. It’s her 18th published book (the first was in 2014) and her first Gothic. Biscayne Bay is on Florida’s east side at Miami. “I chose southern Florida…

Susan GoldenbergMay 2, 2024

Unnatural Death by Author Patricia Cornwell

Miscellany Thrillers

Patricia Cornwell’s 27th Scarpetta Novel Features Another “Unnatural Death”

Bigfoot didn’t do it. Patricia Cornwell — who, as the author of 40 books that have sold more than 120 million copies around the world, has left her own indelible mark — offers that disclaimer without hesitation. If it seems like an odd admission, it’s not. As her newest novel,…

John B. ValeriJanuary 23, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

Why Read African Thrillers? A Year in Review

This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with the International Thriller Writers. It first appeared in The Big Thrill. Readers of mysteries and thrillers enjoy great stories, memorable characters, and an adrenaline rush or two. Many of them also enjoy mind travel — going to other parts of the world where…

Michael SearsJanuary 8, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

Impressing Arson Investigators And Burning Down the House with Lee Goldberg’s Latest

What do you do next when you’re the best-selling author of a popular series like the Eve Ronin books? If you’re Lee Goldberg, you start another series at the same time — which is his highly-acclaimed new thriller Malibu Burning (Thomas & Mercer). Oh, and he also has a stand-alone…

R.G. BelskySeptember 18, 2023

Thrillers

Author Who Inspired Fox’s “Bones” Launches Novel of Sun, Sand and Murder

THE BONE HACKER—Kathy Reichs’s latest in the best-selling series featuring famed forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan—has an unusual opening line for a thriller: a lyric from Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man. But it all makes perfect sense very quickly in this fast-moving story which starts with the mysterious death in Quebec…

R.G. BelskyAugust 9, 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

BooksToScreen Thrillers

Celebrating Netflix’s Masterful Adaptation of “The Night Agent”

When Matthew Quirk published The Night Agent in 2018, he couldn’t have known his action-driven political thriller would later be adapted into a #1 hit show on Netflix — he couldn’t have known, but certainly, like many writers, he dreamt about it. It wasn’t the first time his work had…

Dawn IusApril 19, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Harlan Coben Talks Loss, Redemption and the Power of a Good Twist

David Burroughs has it all — a loving wife, an adored son — until he discovers Matthew brutally murdered in his bed and is convicted in his killing. His wife divorces him, and he goes to prison for life. He hardly cares whether he lives or dies because his family…

Millie Naylor HastMarch 9, 2023

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ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn had her feet firmly planted in the past when her editor called with a challenge she couldn’t pass up: Write a book featuring an older badass woman. Raybourn accepted the challenge and made it even more difficult. She created four badass women, made them assassins, and for the first…

Dawn IusSeptember 13, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Back to the Early Days of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

In Red Winter (Putnam), Marc Cameron takes Tom Clancy fans back to the early days of John Patrick Ryan stationed in England. Set in the time between The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of the Kremlin, the plot of Red Winter involves the crash of a top-secret aircraft, a race to…

José H. BogránDecember 7, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Native Horror Debut is a Love Letter to Denver and Heavy Metal

Erika T. Wurth is well known in her community for uplifting other writers — and certainly Indigenous writers. Even a quick Google search will net links to several articles she’s penned about the massive renaissance in Native fiction. And with the launch of her stunning literary horror debut, White Horse…

Dawn IusNovember 9, 2022

Thrillers

ITW’s 2020 ThrillerFest Goes Virtual

For the past fourteen years, ThrillerFest has been a summer staple in New York City. In 2020, thanks to the coronavirus, it’s going virtual to celebrate its 15th anniversary between July 6 and July 10. “ThrillerFest has become summer camp for thriller writers and enthusiasts,” says Steve Berry, former president…

BookTribMay 19, 2020

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Harper’s Dark Storm of Suspense

In Karen Harper’s latest South Shores Series installment, Dark Storm, (MIRA) a forensic psychologist Claire Markwood and her husband, criminal lawyer Nick, are on a harrowing, very personal adventure. This time, Claire’s younger sister Darcy goes missing, but when Claire heads to the butterfly sanctuary in southern Florida where Darcy…

Wendy TysonJune 6, 2019

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Greg Iles’ Epic Tale of Friendship, Betrayal

In an era when many believe the attention span of readers is at an all-time low, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles embraces the “epic tome.” He has no choice; that’s pretty much how his books come out these days, whether he plans for it or not. Last year, when…

Dawn IusApril 2, 2019

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

FBI Special Agent Pendergast is assigned to work with a new partner in Verses for the Dead (Grand Central), the latest thriller in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s hugely popular series. And, as fans of the famously rogue operative might expect, Pendergast finds that almost as challenging as the series of…

R.G. BelskyJanuary 8, 2019

International Thriller Writers

From Action to Suspense, These Thrillers Are the Best of the Best

Patricia Cornwell’s 27th Scarpetta Novel Features Another “Unnatural Death”

Why Read African Thrillers? A Year in Review

Impressing Arson Investigators And Burning Down the House with Lee Goldberg’s Latest

Celebrating Netflix’s Masterful Adaptation of “The Night Agent”

ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

ITW’s 2020 ThrillerFest Goes Virtual

ITW Spotlight: Harper’s Dark Storm of Suspense

ITW Spotlight: Greg Iles’ Epic Tale of Friendship, Betrayal

ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

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