Neil Nyren

Thrillers

A Thriller with Heart and Humor

What doesn’t kill you makes you…a survivor. Joy Moore and Benny Abbott have been best friends for a very long time, although the relationship has had its ups and downs. Right now, it’s definitely up, though there are other worries. A Podcast Built on Chemistry and Chaos In Tiffany Crum’s…

Neil NyrenFebruary 27, 2026

Thrillers

Stuart Turton’s Intricate Plot Bends Minds and Genres

This may very well be the twistiest, most intricate crime novel you’ll read this year. A tall order, I know, given the competition, but trust me on this. The author, Stuart Turton, calls it “an Agatha Christie mystery in a Groundhog Day loop, with a bit of Quantum Leap.” Others have…

Neil NyrenSeptember 18, 2018

Thrillers

NEW COLUMN Chasing Phantoms: Copenhaver’s Debut, ‘Dodging and Burning’ is an ‘Hommage to Pulp Fiction’

One of the things that makes BookTrib special is our commitment to connecting readers to writers, editors and experts in the business of books! That is why we have partnered with the International Thriller Writers (ITW) to help discover debut thriller writers. Our new column features reviews by veteran editor,…

Neil NyrenMarch 6, 2018

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“How to Write a Mystery” Is a Splendid Technical Treatise for Writers of Any Level

Given that I’ve written around, oh, 50 of them, I kind of know my way around the world of mysteries and thrillers. Enough, anyway, to say that How to Write a Mystery (Scribner), a handbook on the craft put out by the Mystery Writers of America is one of the…

Jon LandApril 27, 2021

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In Glittering Berlin, Thrilling Obsessions Make Fiction and Reality Collide

The young woman speaking in Calla Henkel’s Other People’s Clothes (Doubleday) is Zoe Beech, an American art student who has fled to Berlin in 2008 for any number of reasons. She doesn’t know who she is and she hates the school she’s in now, which revolves around toxic masculinity: “In…

Neil NyrenJanuary 28, 2022

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A Police Transcriber Finds the Real Thing Too Close to Home

“This job is violent and graphic in nature. You’ll have to listen to accounts of things that are … traumatic … to say the least. It’s not for everyone.” “Good thing I’m not everyone.” In Hannah Morrissey’s Hello, Transcriber (Minotaur Books), Hazel Greenlee, 26, has just been hired as a…

Neil NyrenNovember 26, 2021

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A Family, and a City, Confront Their “Monsters”

“Memory, of course, is also a story. It feels like the truth, especially when there is no one to dispute your recollection of events. But it is a story nonetheless — some moments have been elided, and others have been emphasized and made either luminous or horrific or both ……

Neil NyrenJune 25, 2021

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In “An Unlikely Spy” and World War II London, Espionage Shows Its Dark Side

In Rebecca Starford’s An Unlikely Spy (Ecco), Evelyn Varley is about to find that out the hard way. In 1939 with the war looming, Evelyn is recruited by MI5, first to transport classified material, then to infiltrate a group of Nazi sympathizers. She finds it easy and exhilarating at first.…

Neil NyrenMay 28, 2021

Fiction

Why is the Servant Covered in Their Blood?

From the prisoners’ hold, they take me through the gallery, down the stairs and past the table crawling with barristers and clerks. Around me a river of faces in flood, their mutters rising, blending with the lawyers’ whispers. A noise that hums with all the spite of bees in a…

Neil NyrenApril 29, 2019

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The Devil’s in the Details in This Psychological Thriller Meets Heart-Wrenching Family Drama

"You already have a lot of ideas about Hell. It’s amazing what Dante and thousands of years of folklore can do to a place’s reputation… On the top floors... it’s not the fire and brimstone thing you think it might be. It’s music that’s too loud, food that’s too rubbery,…

Neil NyrenSeptember 30, 2022

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Sex, Death, and Obsession Comes for Small-Town Texans in “The Hunting Wives”

"I keep seeing her face, upturned in the pool. Her long hair darkened by the water, stringy and tangled and noodling around her neck. Her eyes are closed, her body floating. Her lips are parted just slightly, and it looks as if she’s resting, tranquil and at peace. Of course,…

Neil NyrenApril 30, 2021

Stuart Turton’s Intricate Plot Bends Minds and Genres

NEW COLUMN Chasing Phantoms: Copenhaver’s Debut, ‘Dodging and Burning’ is an ‘Hommage to Pulp Fiction’

“How to Write a Mystery” Is a Splendid Technical Treatise for Writers of Any Level

In Glittering Berlin, Thrilling Obsessions Make Fiction and Reality Collide

A Police Transcriber Finds the Real Thing Too Close to Home

A Family, and a City, Confront Their “Monsters”

In “An Unlikely Spy” and World War II London, Espionage Shows Its Dark Side

Why is the Servant Covered in Their Blood?

The Devil’s in the Details in This Psychological Thriller Meets Heart-Wrenching Family Drama

Sex, Death, and Obsession Comes for Small-Town Texans in “The Hunting Wives”

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