The Big Thrill

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

In the ever-evolving landscape of mysteries and thrillers, queer authors are bringing vital perspectives, narratological experimentation, and nuanced takes on criminality and justice. LGBTQ writers are crafting stories shaped by their lived experiences of chosen family, otherness, and code-switching. Queering crime fiction interrogates tropes and tests genre boundaries. Serving up…

Margot DouaihyJuly 17, 2024

The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton

Thrillers

Strong Women, A Creepy Mansion and A Tribute to Miami

The House on Biscayne Bay, published in April by Berkley/Penguin Random House, marks several milestones for Miami-based New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Chanel Cleeton. It’s her 18th published book (the first was in 2014) and her first Gothic. Biscayne Bay is on Florida’s east side at Miami. “I chose southern Florida…

Susan GoldenbergMay 2, 2024

Book Club Network Fiction Thrillers

Behind the Scenes of “Good Morning America’s” May Book Club Pick

With The Nigerwife, novelist, playwright and poet Vanessa Walters takes her first excursion into the mystery genre — and it’s an impressive one. The book has already been optioned for HBO. The Nigerwife introduces us to Nicole, who seemingly has the perfect life — a handsome husband, Tonye, two beautiful…

Michael SearsMay 17, 2023

Fiction

Author Deanna Raybourn’s New Novel is a Victorian Butterfly Effect

Deanna Raybourn brings back intrepid investigator Veronica Speedwell and her beau, Stoker, for the ninth book in the Veronica Speedwell series. This time, Veronica and Stoker must figure out how the perfectly preserved body of a young woman ended up in a wax museum. When it is confirmed the young woman was…

Kia DennisMarch 20, 2024

Thrillers

Demon-Priest’s Daughter Solves Mysterious Attacks on Her Village in Supernatural Thriller

Sometimes, moving forward means looking back. Sri Lanka native Amanda Jayatissa demanded the crime fiction community’s attention with her culturally infused debut, My Sweet Girl, which won ITW’s Best First Novel Award in 2022. Her follow-up, You’re Invited, earned a recommendation from Brad Thor on The Today Show and was named a Book of…

John B. ValeriMarch 6, 2024

Unnatural Death by Author Patricia Cornwell

Miscellany Thrillers

Patricia Cornwell’s 27th Scarpetta Novel Features Another “Unnatural Death”

Bigfoot didn’t do it. Patricia Cornwell — who, as the author of 40 books that have sold more than 120 million copies around the world, has left her own indelible mark — offers that disclaimer without hesitation. If it seems like an odd admission, it’s not. As her newest novel,…

John B. ValeriJanuary 23, 2024

Listicles Thrillers

Why Read African Thrillers? A Year in Review

This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with the International Thriller Writers. It first appeared in The Big Thrill. Readers of mysteries and thrillers enjoy great stories, memorable characters, and an adrenaline rush or two. Many of them also enjoy mind travel — going to other parts of the world where…

Michael SearsJanuary 8, 2024

Miscellany Thrillers

3 Bestselling Authors Talk the Past, Present, and Future of Thriller Villains

Without a villain, there is no thriller. No story, no conflict, no reason to care. Because thrillers are about a threat that needs to be stopped. That threat has to come from somewhere. The more interesting the villain, and the threat, the better the story. And that story poses tough…

Guy BergstromOctober 16, 2023

Miscellany Thrillers

Impressing Arson Investigators And Burning Down the House with Lee Goldberg’s Latest

What do you do next when you’re the best-selling author of a popular series like the Eve Ronin books? If you’re Lee Goldberg, you start another series at the same time — which is his highly-acclaimed new thriller Malibu Burning (Thomas & Mercer). Oh, and he also has a stand-alone…

R.G. BelskySeptember 18, 2023

Thrillers

Author Who Inspired Fox’s “Bones” Launches Novel of Sun, Sand and Murder

THE BONE HACKER—Kathy Reichs’s latest in the best-selling series featuring famed forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan—has an unusual opening line for a thriller: a lyric from Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man. But it all makes perfect sense very quickly in this fast-moving story which starts with the mysterious death in Quebec…

R.G. BelskyAugust 9, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Luxurious African Safari Turns Deadly in Gripping Historical Thriller

Chris Bohjalian is a very well-known novelist — he is a New York Times bestseller, has been translated into thirty languages, and has had his work adapted for movies and TV series. Last year saw the release of The Lioness, his gripping, historical thriller set in East Africa, and the…

Michael SearsJune 12, 2023

BooksToScreen Thrillers

Celebrating Netflix’s Masterful Adaptation of “The Night Agent”

When Matthew Quirk published The Night Agent in 2018, he couldn’t have known his action-driven political thriller would later be adapted into a #1 hit show on Netflix — he couldn’t have known, but certainly, like many writers, he dreamt about it. It wasn’t the first time his work had…

Dawn IusApril 19, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Stranger Danger is Just an Invitation Away

In her twisty-turny signature style, bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan’s newest thriller, The House Guest (Forge Books), takes readers inside the life of a woman whose entire existence is turned inside out. Alyssa Macallen has devoted the last eight years to giving her husband, Bill, everything he wanted, including changing…

K.L. RomoFebruary 15, 2023

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ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn had her feet firmly planted in the past when her editor called with a challenge she couldn’t pass up: Write a book featuring an older badass woman. Raybourn accepted the challenge and made it even more difficult. She created four badass women, made them assassins, and for the first…

Dawn IusSeptember 13, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Back to the Early Days of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

In Red Winter (Putnam), Marc Cameron takes Tom Clancy fans back to the early days of John Patrick Ryan stationed in England. Set in the time between The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of the Kremlin, the plot of Red Winter involves the crash of a top-secret aircraft, a race to…

José H. BogránDecember 7, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Native Horror Debut is a Love Letter to Denver and Heavy Metal

Erika T. Wurth is well known in her community for uplifting other writers — and certainly Indigenous writers. Even a quick Google search will net links to several articles she’s penned about the massive renaissance in Native fiction. And with the launch of her stunning literary horror debut, White Horse…

Dawn IusNovember 9, 2022

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

Author Deanna Raybourn’s New Novel is a Victorian Butterfly Effect

Patricia Cornwell’s 27th Scarpetta Novel Features Another “Unnatural Death”

Why Read African Thrillers? A Year in Review

3 Bestselling Authors Talk the Past, Present, and Future of Thriller Villains

Impressing Arson Investigators And Burning Down the House with Lee Goldberg’s Latest

Celebrating Netflix’s Masterful Adaptation of “The Night Agent”

ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

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