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From Lawyers to Cowboys: Jon Land’s Top August Thrillers

Always to the rescue with the next best reads, Jon Land shares his favorite thrillers of August. https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Outfox-400x603.jpg Sandra Brown continues her string of remarkable hardcore thrillers with the canny and clever Outfox (Grand Central). This neo-noir crime story reads like modern-day James M. Cain. FBI agent Drex Easton has…
Jon Land
August 14, 2019
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Cults, Explosions and Disappearances in Karin Slaughter’s Latest

The sudden abduction of infectious disease specialist Michelle Spivey causes panic in Karin Slaughter’s latest, The Last Widow (William Morrow). Despite their best efforts, both local and federal law enforcement find very little answers. Then the local medical center explodes. Beloved characters Will Trent and Sara Linton are unknowingly brought…
Missi Gwartney
August 19, 2019
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Jon Land’s Picks: Hollywood, Sci-Fi, and More!

As we near the end of September, you don't want to miss the best of thrillers that came out in the last month before the new influx comes in. Luckily, master thriller writer Jon Land has selected the best of the past month in his reviews so you can make…
Jon Land
September 21, 2018
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ITW Spotlight: Karin Slaughter Captures Tragedy in a Way Nonfiction Can’t in “False Witness”

"A wickedly sharp and arresting tour de force that blends a riveting plot and emotional subterfuge with propulsive prose ... unputdownable." —Lauren Francis-Sharma, author of Book of the Little Axe, on False Witness —∞— "Slaughter doesn’t save her twists for the end, instead peppering them throughout the intricately layered story amid stomach-churning near…
Dawn Ius
July 27, 2021
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ITW Spotlight: Slaughter on Writing Violence and Her Latest, “The Silent Wife”

"Emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural." —Library Journal "An unflinching, deeply empathetic exploration of the stigma surrounding rape and the enduring trauma suffered by its survivors." —Publisher's Weekly “Her talent is the equivalent of Poe or a Hawthorne…
Dawn Ius
August 3, 2020