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Punk, Profane, and Unstoppable: Sister Holiday Returns in “Divine Ruin”

In 2023, Margot Douaihy introduced crime fiction to an unforgettable new heroine in the form of a tatted-up, punk rock, cigarette-smoking, lesbian nun named Sister Holiday. Having spectacularly blown up her life in Brooklyn — her family, her girlfriend, her band — she’d fled to the only place that would…

Neil NyrenJanuary 13, 2026

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8 Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers Coming in 2026

What’s better than starting the year off with a selection of brand-new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to reading? We’ve curated a list of books that are sure to keep you glued to your seat, eyes on the page, nerves on edge, and heart pounding! Our anticipated 2026 mysteries…

Stephanie ElliotDecember 17, 2025

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In the Endless Arctic Night, a Murder

“Accidents, murders, suicides, illnesses. Dying of old age was rare in Cape Dorset.” Cape Dorset is a remote Arctic community, inhabited mainly by the Inuit and a few people who aren’t. Sergeant Elderick Cole is one of the latter. In Malcolm Kempt’s A Gift Before Dying, he’s part of the…

Neil NyrenDecember 26, 2025

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Colleen Hoover’s “Woman Down” Is a Thrilling Descent Into Desire and Consequence

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

Krista BegganJanuary 13, 2026

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Thrillers Featuring Motherhood

As a novelist and a mother, I’m often asked how I manage to write while parenting two young children. The implication of this question is that children demand so much of your time and attention, it’s impossible to have anything left for yourself let alone a creative practice. Children, so…

Amy MeyersonJanuary 5, 2026

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Laura Dave Delivers Another Unputdownable Thriller

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave brings the reader on a journey of twist and turns as the main characters race across the globe to end the decades long threat to their safety. The first book in the series, The Last Thing He Told Me, hooked me…

Kristin KeatonJanuary 6, 2026

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5 Unputdownable Espionage Books That Will Grip You From Page One

Whether you love the razor-edge tension of undercover missions or the moral complexity of intelligence work, WWII remains one of the richest eras for spy fiction — a time when information was deadlier than bullets, loyalties shifted like quicksand and the line between hero and traitor was just one coded…

BookTribDecember 9, 2025

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What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

The leap from reporting crime as a TV news producer to writing psychological thrillers is not as big a jump as you might think. For me, it’s been a logical next step, a distillation of so much of what I’d heard and seen and experienced in the nearly two decades…

Christina KovacDecember 5, 2025

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Press Play on “Thunderbird Rising” to Experience Pure Thrills and Unmatched Tension

In the audiobook of John H. Thomas’s Thunderbird Rising, narrator Scott Fleming’s dynamic performance turns a gripping thriller into an immersive adventure. Superb narration, emotional depth, and top-notch production elevate this tale of espionage and a reimagined 9/11

BookTribNovember 19, 2025

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Rickstad’s Latest ‘Girls’ Novel is a Disturbingly Beautiful Masterpiece

Eric Rickstad's The Names of Dead Girls, the sequel to his 2014 book The Silent Girls, is a commanding, beautiful masterpiece and display is soon-to-be among his best work. 'Girls' is intense and gripping from the very first page, all the way to the last. In a small town in Vermont, Rachel Rath…

BookTribSeptember 21, 2017

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Review: ‘Mister Tender’s Girl’ is a Dark Re-telling of Slender Man Case

Some books are creepy, and some get even creepier when you find out that they're based on a true story. Such is the case with Carter Wilson's Mister Tender's Girl, based on the Slender Man stabbing case. Slender Man, the supernatural character created as part of a internet meme, became an international…

BookTribFebruary 9, 2018

Thrillers

Charlie Donlea’s Fictional Answer to Crime Docu-Dramas

Over the past few years, podcasts and television shows like Serial and Netflix's Making A Murderer have taken over the country, if not the world. Thousands of people tune in every day to find out what happened next in these real-life cases where the question of did they or didn't they pervades throughout the…

BookTribMay 31, 2018

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Emily Arsenault on Two Characters That Define Her Thriller

Emily Arsenault has a long career of writing some of the most engaging mystery, crime, and thriller books out there, and her latest book is no exception. The Last Thing I Told You (William Morrow), out in late July, introduces readers to two characters that will stay with you for a long time:…

BookTribJuly 26, 2018

Thrillers

Riley Sager on Summer Camp and Stephen King

Last year, there was one book at the top of everyone's must-read list: Riley Sager's Final Girls, which was so good, Stephen King himself called it "The first great thriller of 2017." If that's not proof enough that Sager knows his way around the thriller, then just know that his follow up…

BookTribJuly 3, 2018

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School Mom or Sociopath? Harding’s “Her Pretty Face”

Robyn Harding, author of the dark domestic novel The Party (Gallery/Scout Press), has given us yet another pulse-quickening read, set within a seemingly normal friendship of mothers. In Her Pretty Face (Gallery/Scout Press), Harding follows the overweight, insecure Francis Metcalfe as she struggles to fit in with the other Forrester academy…

BookTribJuly 23, 2018

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When the Hunt Turns Inward: 5 Psychological Thrillers Where Madness Shadows the Chase

In today’s most compelling crime fiction, the chase is never just about the killer — it’s about the fragile minds drawn into the hunt. These five thrillers plunge deep into the psychology of obsession, pairing haunted investigators with murderers who blur the boundaries between predator and prey. Set against backdrops…

BookTribNovember 12, 2025

8 Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers Coming in 2026

In the Endless Arctic Night, a Murder

Colleen Hoover’s “Woman Down” Is a Thrilling Descent Into Desire and Consequence

Thrillers Featuring Motherhood

5 Unputdownable Espionage Books That Will Grip You From Page One

What Covering Crime In TV News Taught Me About Crafting Thrillers

Press Play on “Thunderbird Rising” to Experience Pure Thrills and Unmatched Tension

Rickstad’s Latest ‘Girls’ Novel is a Disturbingly Beautiful Masterpiece

Review: ‘Mister Tender’s Girl’ is a Dark Re-telling of Slender Man Case

Charlie Donlea’s Fictional Answer to Crime Docu-Dramas

Emily Arsenault on Two Characters That Define Her Thriller

Riley Sager on Summer Camp and Stephen King

School Mom or Sociopath? Harding’s “Her Pretty Face”

When the Hunt Turns Inward: 5 Psychological Thrillers Where Madness Shadows the Chase

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