Can water wash away all crimes, or will clever detectives and sleuths be able to dredge up the truth once and for all? In these mystery novels, the water isn’t necessarily the killer — but it plays a major role in the crime. There’s something haunting about novels where a…
Megan BeauregardJune 15, 2023
Agent Pendergast’s last case left him in Florida, where he intended to spend some vacation time—if only severed feet encased in generic footwear hadn’t washed up off the coast of Florida. Reluctant to cut his vacation short, Pendergast agrees to just “take a look at the case,” but quickly enough…
J.H. BogranFebruary 11, 2020
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 LandAugust 14, 2019
Lincoln Child for reasons that are all on display in The Pharaoh Key (Grand Central, Available Now). Series stalwart Gideon Crew once again takes center stage, even as he struggles with a death sentence doctors have given him. So when the opportunity to save his own life, along with the…
Jon LandJune 18, 2018
Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors give “Earphones Awards” to the best new audiobooks — the listens that combine blow-you-away narrations with standout writing. BookTrib, thanks to our partnership with AudioFile, offers this month’s picks of the newest do-not-miss titles. Don’t forget your earbuds. Trouble is What I Do by…
AudioFileFebruary 26, 2020
Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. This month, listeners will exercise their minds with a history of women's fitness trailblazers, feel charmed by Regency-era flirtation, travel to a UFO crash site and more. So, grab your earbuds and queue ’em up!…
AudioFileFebruary 28, 2022
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s stellar Crooked River (Grand Central), the nineteenth to feature FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast, shows why this is the best mystery series going today. The premise is enough to make the likes of Jeffery Deaver and Thomas Harris blush: dozens of identical blue shoes are…
Jon LandFebruary 17, 2020
