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Silicon Valley Tech CEO Joins FBI Murder Investigation in “Broken Genius”

How does a high-profile Silicon Valley tech CEO end up working a Midwest murder case as an FBI special agent? For Will Parker, it’s a long story that starts with a kidnapped college student and a failed business deal. He was young, good looking and on the top of his…

Paige VigliaroloJune 3, 2020

Thrillers

“Spychip Armageddon:” NOW May Be the End of the World

"Captivation from the initial capital letter in Chapter One to the final period. A fictional journey that begs the question, 'could this be real?' Ray Perkins has a visual way with words like no other.” — Wayne Warner, Nashville recording artist and author of Backstage Nashville —∞— “The Spychip protocol…

Chelsea CicconeJune 17, 2020

Thrillers

A Dead Rabbi and His Contentious Congregation in “Two Jews = Three Shuls”

Being the rabbi for a highbrow, highly opinionated congregation can be murder. Literally. Ask Rabbi Saul Levinson, religious leader and guiding light of Beth Torah Synagogue on the north shore of Long Island, NY. Ask him figuratively, that is. After all, he’s dead. In Two Jews = Three Shuls (Resource Publications)…

Jim AlkonJune 22, 2020

Thrillers

Serial Killers, Cults and Genetic Trackers! 8 May Thrillers to Keep You Up Late

You won’t find the esteemed Lincoln Rhyme anywhere in the pages of Jeffery Deaver’s The Goodbye Man (Putnam) but, once again, Colter Shaw proves supremely adept at driving the action that’s totally devoid of serial killers as well. That action finds the jaded and financially motivated Shaw this time tracking targets…

Jon LandMay 28, 2020

Thrillers

Checkmate! “Enemy Queen” Has This Lawyer and Professor in an Unlikely Mess

The two protagonists in Robert Steven Goldstein’s Enemy Queen (SparkPress) are reminiscent of those intelligent and respected pairs in entertainment who bumble their way through dubious decisions and actions. One can only imagine Enemy Queen was as much fun for Goldstein to write as it is for readers to read.…

Jim AlkonMay 12, 2020

Thrillers

Double Homicide vs Quirky PI Team in “Rigged”

A double homicide that catches even the local police by surprise. In Rigged (Oceanview), the fourth in the Jake Longly thriller series by D.P. Lyle, Tommy “Pancake” Jeffers, one of the sleuths at Longly Investigations, arrives in the quaint town of Fairhope, AL, to examine the finances involved in the…

Nikki ErlickMay 19, 2020

Thrillers

Moral Dilemmas in Search for the Truth About Missing Co-Eds in “The Secrets They Left Behind”

There are periods in life when five years pass like a wave. One day you’re thirty-eight, the next you’re forty-three, and nothing much seems to have changed. The span between age eighteen and twenty-three is not one of those periods. Time has a way of changing speeds. That half-decade, in…

Casey BarrettMay 1, 2020

Thrillers

Detective Emerges From Retirement When Murder Comes to “Diver’s Paradise”

Former detective Roscoe “R” Conklin lives on Bonaire, a tropical island in the southern Caribbean. Now the owner of the YellowRock hotel resort, Conklin’s closest contact with law enforcement should be his police officer girlfriend, Arabella, but after his former partner, Bill Ryberg, and his wife Marybeth are found murdered…

Chelsea CicconeApril 8, 2020

Thrillers

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

It seems as if phones are mobile catalogs of our entire lives. They contain our banking information, the names and addresses of our friends and family and pictures of everything from our lovable furry animals to screenshots of that recipe we saw on Pinterest. If given access to yours, what…

Chelsea CicconeApril 14, 2020

Thrillers

6 Thrillers to Binge While Social Distancing from the World

Harlan Coben’s blistering and bracing The Boy from the Woods (Grand Central) is a hybrid mystery-thriller featuring a unique blend of concepts and themes. Starkly original, in fact. Our hero is Wilde, who as a boy was (almost) quite literally raised by wolves — at least, in the same wild…

Jon LandMarch 27, 2020

Thrillers

Haunted Heroine Rushes “Toward the Light” in Debut Thriller

There’s nothing quite like discovering a new, exotic city through the pages of a thriller. Through fast-paced fiction, the sights and sounds and smells of a place come through in technicolor. A city feels so much more, well, thrilling. It beats any guidebook. Bonnar Spring’s beautifully executed first novel Toward…

Casey BarrettJanuary 16, 2020

Thrillers

A Chilling Tale of Murder and Secrets in P.J. Tracy’s Latest

Maybe you’re sweating through the last-gasp heat wave of summer. As perspiration slides down your nose, you feel stickier than a Hershey bar in tropical sun. Your air conditioning is busted, so you sit on your porch as an ineffective fan mainly swirls the rancid, steamy air in a different…

Dennis HetzelSeptember 5, 2019

Thrillers

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

“Did your hunch prove correct?” asked Gwen. “It did,” replied Iris, as she began typing her notes of the interview. “What was it about?” “Her stockings.” “Were her seams not straight?” “The seams were straight,” said Iris. “The girl is crooked.” It is June 1946 in London. The war is…

Neil NyrenMay 31, 2019

Thrillers

“The Wife Between Us” Meets “Rebecca”

Since high school, Claire Prescott planned her life. From the first time she saw university professor Byron Prescott speak about literature at her high school, she knew he would be a part of it. Even though everyone told her Byron was too old and his first wife, Colleen, seemed to…

Missi GwartneyJune 10, 2019

Thrillers

Jessica Fletcher is Back in Jon Land’s “Murder in Red”

In Murder in Red (Berkley), the forty-ninth installment of the long-running Murder, She Wrote series, Jessica Fletcher returns with familiar and well-executed flare. This is the third series installment penned by Jon Land. Last time, he took Jessica well outside her comfort zone to unravel a Deep State conspiracy, a…

James R. HannibalMay 28, 2019

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Mystery Probes Complex Female Relationships

Alafair Burke didn’t set out to write a trilogy, but with the release of her latest novel of domestic suspense—The Better Sister—Burke completes a set of three thematic novels that explore “the complexity of female relationships and the diverse roles that women play in contemporary society.” The Better Sister (Harper)…

Dawn IusMay 9, 2019

Silicon Valley Tech CEO Joins FBI Murder Investigation in “Broken Genius”

“Spychip Armageddon:” NOW May Be the End of the World

A Dead Rabbi and His Contentious Congregation in “Two Jews = Three Shuls”

Serial Killers, Cults and Genetic Trackers! 8 May Thrillers to Keep You Up Late

Checkmate! “Enemy Queen” Has This Lawyer and Professor in an Unlikely Mess

Double Homicide vs Quirky PI Team in “Rigged”

Moral Dilemmas in Search for the Truth About Missing Co-Eds in “The Secrets They Left Behind”

Detective Emerges From Retirement When Murder Comes to “Diver’s Paradise”

Assassin’s Mobile Hit List Has Just Been Compromised in “Die Next”

6 Thrillers to Binge While Social Distancing from the World

Haunted Heroine Rushes “Toward the Light” in Debut Thriller

A Chilling Tale of Murder and Secrets in P.J. Tracy’s Latest

War, Criminality, and “The Right Sort of Man”

“The Wife Between Us” Meets “Rebecca”

Jessica Fletcher is Back in Jon Land’s “Murder in Red”

ITW Spotlight: Mystery Probes Complex Female Relationships

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