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Legalization of Sports Betting Increases Odds of Crime in Exhilarating Mystery-Thriller

As soon as I finished Tom Farrell’s intelligent, exhilarating sports betting mystery-thriller WagerEasy, I checked the author’s background to see why his writing conveyed such a thorough understanding of detective work and detective language. A retired lawyer? Nope. A chemist? No. Golf course starter? Don’t think so. City Hall clerk?…

Jim AlkonFebruary 7, 2022

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Savvy Sleuth Tracks Down a Murderer In Snappy Sports Mystery

It’s no coincidence that the public and the media are drawn to high-profile criminal cases when a major sports figure is involved. As it turns out, so are readers. Co-authors C.K. Laurence and Jerry Lyons no doubt were aware of this phenomenon when they wrote a snappy murder mystery that…

BookTribSeptember 13, 2023

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Imprisoned University Official Must Sort Out Implications of Huge Financial Gift

“The gift seems promising, but how do we know what we do not know?” “We will do our best, but I am positive we will not know everything.” Of that later point, our narrator, Bill — a university administrator in way over his head in Robert Berne’s intriguing Tuscan Son…

Jim AlkonSeptember 9, 2022

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“Today Is the Day” Transforms Troubled Teen Into a Marine

Today Is the Day (Xlibris) by Deborah Curtin is an engaging military thriller about terrorist activity that infiltrates a small town but leads outward to a much larger, more sinister plot. More than this, though, it is a character study of a young man’s coming of age in post-9/11 America…

Cynthia ConradNovember 26, 2019

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Poland, Precious Relics and the Price of Freedom in “The Warsaw Protocol”

This novel is a history lesson wrapped around a thriller injected with steroids. In The Warsaw Protocol (Minotaur Books), 15th in the Cotton Malone series, author Steve Berry uses the backdrop of Poland’s battle against Communism and the legacy of Christian relics to create a story of bribery, blackmail and…

K.L. RomoFebruary 25, 2020

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In Mind-Bending Thriller, Is Humanity Ready to Learn Ancient Aliens Are Among Us?

Have you ever wondered how ancient civilizations built the pyramids or carved the stone giants on Easter Island? What if Earth was inhabited by another race — an alien race — thousands of years ago, one that brought the secrets of the universe with them? That’s the intriguing theory author…

K.L. RomoOctober 11, 2022

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Pandemic Thriller Has an Unusual Villain: Our Health Care System

When Irv Tinsley, an epidemiologist investigator with the Seattle-King County Public Health Offices arrives at a remote country cabin to examine a body, he finds its condition “a bit off.” There’s a strange smell emanating from the corpse, and an unusual pattern of decay. Toxicology tests indicate the man may…

Joanna PoncavageJune 22, 2022

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Modern Day Indiana Jones Back and Better Than Ever in “The Spanish Papers”

Kevin Tumlinson’s archeologist hero Dan Kotler, star of The Spanish Papers (Happy Pants Books) and seven other thriller novels, is more than a modern Indiana Jones. He believes artifacts belong in museums, but he’s got cash to throw around to buy them up. He consults for the FBI’s Historic Crimes…

Jeff DaughertyAugust 14, 2019

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Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

The enigmatic title The Sleeping Lady (She Writes Press), conjures a feeling of mystery and excitement, an impression that only intensifies after opening the book. The namesake of The Sleeping Lady is the hazy outline of Mount Tamalpais. This summit helps frame the skyline over small towns north of San…

Mary Ann RyanMarch 13, 2019

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Latest Bruno Johnson Thriller Sets Him on the Trail of Kidnapped Child

Here’s what we learn in the first 10 pages of David Putnam’s The Sinister (Oceanview), the latest in his thriller series featuring ex-cop, ex-con Bruno Johnson: Johnson and his wife have been hiding out in a fancy Los Angeles hotel for about two months and have racked up a bill in…

BookTribFebruary 22, 2022

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Characters Find Themselves on Emotional Collision Course in Mountaintop Thriller

“Where would one go to sell a kidney?” Hightower asked. Vlad leaned back; his expression turned sour. “People get killed wanting to know.” Author Lee Lindauer, an engineer by trade before turning to thriller novels, uses the tools and techniques of his original vocation to develop well-researched and tightly conceived…

Jim AlkonApril 21, 2023

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A Trip to Cancún, a Chilling Murder and Three Friends Who Will Never Be the Same

Yes, I know it’s only fiction, but still you have to reread the first few pages of Caroline Steiger’s psychological thriller The Sacrifice to make sure you’ve got it right, that a cool cucumber named John is casually explaining how he just murdered a girl in a swimming pool in…

Jim AlkonOctober 24, 2023

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Classy Crime Thriller “The Redhead in the Cove” Is a Page-Turning Whodunit

Somewhere near the middle of the smart, fast-paced thriller The Redhead in the Cove (Waterside Productions)by Scott Addeo Young and Edmond G. Addeo appears the sentence, “As the wise old Socrates said in the Forum to the eager young Plato while ankle-biter Aristotle crawled around the sand at their feet, ‘You…

Jim AlkonMay 10, 2021

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Manipulating Minds at the Root of Hidden Agendas in “The Rage Colony”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Rage-Colony-genetic.jpg As Shanon Hunt was getting ready to publish her debut novel The Pain Colony in late 2019, I was tasked with reading it and providing her with an honest, critical assessment. Before I offered my opinion, I asked whether she was nervous about unleashing her work to the literary…

Jim AlkonOctober 30, 2020

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Espionage Thriller Reminiscent of “The Bourne Identity” Traces WWII Shadows Across Europe

The Prague Connection pulls readers into historic bunkers and secret catacombs across Europe in search of hidden nuclear arms, before embarking on an action-packed journey that spans the globe. Author Will Steadman has penned an exciting spy novel reminiscent of The Bourne Identity, incorporating clandestine historical sites and exploring lesser-known…

Michael FerryMarch 14, 2022

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Luring a Retired Assassin Brings Lethal Results

When we last left Jack Shelley, the infamous assassin known as "The Poet," he decided to give up his violent vocation in romantic pursuit of the strong and beautiful Rebecca Paige. After the two emerged alive from a dangerous hostage situation at a remote inn, they had time to give…

Rebecca ProulxMarch 7, 2019

mobile-app-adult-fiction-thrillers

Legalization of Sports Betting Increases Odds of Crime in Exhilarating Mystery-Thriller

Savvy Sleuth Tracks Down a Murderer In Snappy Sports Mystery

Imprisoned University Official Must Sort Out Implications of Huge Financial Gift

“Today Is the Day” Transforms Troubled Teen Into a Marine

Poland, Precious Relics and the Price of Freedom in “The Warsaw Protocol”

In Mind-Bending Thriller, Is Humanity Ready to Learn Ancient Aliens Are Among Us?

Pandemic Thriller Has an Unusual Villain: Our Health Care System

Modern Day Indiana Jones Back and Better Than Ever in “The Spanish Papers”

Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

Latest Bruno Johnson Thriller Sets Him on the Trail of Kidnapped Child

Characters Find Themselves on Emotional Collision Course in Mountaintop Thriller

A Trip to Cancún, a Chilling Murder and Three Friends Who Will Never Be the Same

Classy Crime Thriller “The Redhead in the Cove” Is a Page-Turning Whodunit

Manipulating Minds at the Root of Hidden Agendas in “The Rage Colony”

Espionage Thriller Reminiscent of “The Bourne Identity” Traces WWII Shadows Across Europe

Luring a Retired Assassin Brings Lethal Results

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