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‘Odd Child Out’: A BookTrib Conversation with Gilly MacMillan

The saying "art imitates life" rings true in particular for Gilly MacMillan's detective thriller, Odd Child Out. Her latest novel has the heavy matter of dealing with immigration and refugees, two subjects that are heavily featured in politics and the news across the globe on a daily basis. Yet, MacMillan takes these…
BookTrib
November 20, 2017
Thrillers

The Hype About New Psycho Thriller And Its Debut Author

It's one of the most talked about books, included on every list of recommendations, no matter what the occasion. Tangerine, the psychological thriller by debut author Christine Mangan, is not only beautifully written prose, but electric in imagery. Taking place in Tangier, Morocco, in the 1950s, the novel is vivid and full…
BookTrib
May 22, 2018
Thrillers

Tara Isabella Burton’s Debut and Deadly Relationships

This year, we've seen a lot of books that seem to just raise the bar on what we can expect from literature in terms of mesmerizing plots, spellbinding characters and twists no one ever saw coming. But debut novel Social Creature, with its eye-catching cover that stops you in your tracks may…
BookTrib
June 21, 2018
Thrillers

Charlie Donlea’s Fictional Answer to Crime Docu-Dramas

Over the past few years, podcasts and television shows like Serial and Netflix's Making A Murderer have taken over the country, if not the world. Thousands of people tune in every day to find out what happened next in these real-life cases where the question of did they or didn't they pervades throughout the…
BookTrib
May 31, 2018
Thrillers

Emily Arsenault on Two Characters That Define Her Thriller

Emily Arsenault has a long career of writing some of the most engaging mystery, crime, and thriller books out there, and her latest book is no exception. The Last Thing I Told You (William Morrow), out in late July, introduces readers to two characters that will stay with you for a long time:…
BookTrib
July 26, 2018
Thrillers

Riley Sager on Summer Camp and Stephen King

Last year, there was one book at the top of everyone's must-read list: Riley Sager's Final Girls, which was so good, Stephen King himself called it "The first great thriller of 2017." If that's not proof enough that Sager knows his way around the thriller, then just know that his follow up…
BookTrib
July 3, 2018
Thrillers

Ten’s Gretchen McNeil: How to Make Serial Killers Fun

Gretchen McNeil is not only an incredibly talented author, she's also a professionally trained opera singer, a natural performer, and one of the nicest people we've ever met. The hit YA author is probably best known for her book Ten, which won numerous awards before being turned into a Lifetime original…
BookTrib
July 12, 2018
Thrillers

School Mom or Sociopath? Harding’s “Her Pretty Face”

Robyn Harding, author of the dark domestic novel The Party (Gallery/Scout Press), has given us yet another pulse-quickening read, set within a seemingly normal friendship of mothers. In Her Pretty Face (Gallery/Scout Press), Harding follows the overweight, insecure Francis Metcalfe as she struggles to fit in with the other Forrester academy…
BookTrib
July 23, 2018
Fiction

Technology and Terror Fill Shah’s Dystopian Society

In Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps (Delphinium), the ratio of men to women in a South West Asia capital has become increasingly and critically low. In order to fix the problem, the government has taken on using modern technology, combined with terror, to ensure that women take on multiple husbands, to…
BookTrib
August 6, 2018
Popular

How Far Would You Go to Get the Perfect House?

“‘We have to stop putting all this pressure on ourselves. It’ll work out eventually.’ “I am so goddamn sick of everyone telling me that.” So — As Marisa Kashino’s Best Offer Wins begins, here’s where we are: Thirty-seven-year-old Margo Miyake and her husband, Ian, have been house-hunting in the Washington,…
Neil Nyren
October 31, 2025