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Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud: Chatting with Mike Lupica

As a reviewer and insider, Ryan Steck has been called “the Godfather of the thriller genre.” In this first contributed piece to BookTrib, Ryan names every thriller hitting the bookshelves this fall that genre aficionados should know about. Visit Ryan at www.therealbookspy.com. Replacing an icon can’t be easy, but you wouldn’t know…
Ryan Steck
November 30, 2018
Thrillers

The Elderly Female Antihero We Never Knew We Needed

Maud an 88-year-old introverted Swedish woman, seems so innocuous and frail....but of course maybe that's the perfect cover for getting away with murder. In Helene Tursten's An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good (Soho Press), the resources normal senior citizens rely on for rehabilitation quickly turn to tools of…
Rebecca Proulx
November 7, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Exploring the Eerie Lake Superior

Sometimes, as readers, we don’t know what we’ve been longing for until after it arrives. For instance, the eerie pleasures of a suspenseful, atmospheric novel set on Lake Superior become evident when we wrap ourselves around a sentence such as, “No one who was alive when her body floated onto…
Nancy Bilyeau
November 13, 2018
Thrillers

“Manuscript for Murder:” The Cozy Thriller

With Manuscript for Murder (Berkley), the second installment of the long-running Murder She Wrote series penned by Jon Land, the author pushes the series into new territory, blurring the boundary between cozy mysteries and thrillers. Or perhaps he is forming a new genre: the cozy thriller. Land took the mantle of…
James R. Hannibal
November 6, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Digging Up the Past with Lee Child

Iconic anti-hero Jack Reacher has made thriller writer Lee Child an internationally renowned author. In Past Tense (Delacorte Press)—the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series—a turn in the road takes Child’s avenging loner to his long-deceased father’s hometown, where the ghosts of his past aren’t necessarily dead and buried.…
Josie Brown
November 5, 2018
Thrillers

A Chat with “The Guilty Dead” Author P.J. Tracy

We chatted with P.J. Tracy, author of the thriller The Guilty Dead, now available to purchase. P.J. Tracy was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot To Thrill, Off the Grid, The Sixth Idea,…
Meagan Foy
October 16, 2018
Thrillers

Author P.J. Tracy Opens Up on Her First Solo Novel

“Some secrets are worth killing for.” That’s the setup for the highly anticipated thriller, The Guilty Dead, (Crooked Lane Books) the first solo novel by Traci Lambrecht since the passing of her mother P.J. Lambrecht. The pair wrote as P.J. Tracy, and that tradition carries on with one of the…
BookTrib
September 11, 2018
Thrillers

Jon Land’s Picks: Hollywood, Sci-Fi, and More!

As we near the end of September, you don't want to miss the best of thrillers that came out in the last month before the new influx comes in. Luckily, master thriller writer Jon Land has selected the best of the past month in his reviews so you can make…
Jon Land
September 21, 2018
Thrillers

One-Man Wrecking Ball Picks Up Vince Flynn Legacy

Kyle Mills opens his fourth Mitch Rapp thriller (since taking over the series following the passing of Vince Flynn in 2013) Red War (Atria) with Russian President Maxim Krupin standing in his Kremlin office looking down at the protestors filing into Red Square. The growing backlash and constant threat of being…
Ryan Steck
August 30, 2018
Thrillers

Laurie Petrou, “Sister of Mine” Author Interview

We had the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Petrou, author of the chilling thriller Sister of Mine, now available to purchase.     Laurie Petrou is an author, professor, PhD, and a drinker of tea. Most of my adventures take place inside books. I am, I think, part Hobbit: I love my books,…
BookTrib
August 24, 2018
Thrillers

George R.R. Martin and More Thrilling Reads

ThrillerFest, the thirteenth annual gathering of the crème de la crème, debut and aspiring thriller writers, took place last week and throughout the weekend in New York City. There’s only one event where you can find New York Times bestselling authors lurking around every single corner, literary agents actually appearing in broad…
Rebecca Proulx
July 16, 2018
Thrillers

7 Suspense-Packed July Picks From Jon Land

Strap in for tastes of history, spies, and horror for this month! Expert thriller writer and regular columnist for BookTrib, Jon Land presents his top selections from the genre for July. William Martin solidifies his claim as king of the historical thriller in the glittering Bound for Gold (Forge), spiriting us…
Jon Land
July 20, 2018