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Is it Suicide or “Murder in Old Bombay”?

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Murder-in-Old-Bombay.jpg Books are like time machines, transporting us to faraway places that stir our imagination. Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur), the thrilling debut mystery from Nev March, is one such novel. It conjures the exotic fragrances of sandalwood, jasmine, and meats roasting at the local bazaars, images of women in…

Jodé MillmanNovember 10, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

Tana French’s Standalone Stunner Follows Chicago Cop’s Search for Missing Irish Teen

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TheSearcher.jpg "Taught, chiseled and propulsive." — Vogue "Crime fiction fans won't want to miss this one." — Publishers Weekly "A slow-burn stunner that will keep readers turning the pages late into the night." — Library Journal —∞— Old habits die hard. Especially if you’re a middle-aged ex-cop from Chicago who’s specialized…

Jodé MillmanOctober 6, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

“Emergency Powers:” A Political Conspiracy Thriller for Our Crazy Times

James McCrone writes that George W. Bush’s “chad-thin” victory over Al Gore in 2000 showed him just how fragile our electoral process can be. Those who were voting age 20 years ago likely recall the Florida election judges trying to interpret voter intent from those hanging chads, which were dangling…

Dennis HetzelOctober 1, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

Neighborly Curiosity Crosses a Line as Nosiness Becomes Stalking in “When I Was You”

“Amber Garza has upped the game on the classic stalker novel! ... A fast-paced, beautifully plotted book.” — Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife There's something fascinating about stalking. We stalk to compare our lives with others, so we can keep up with the Joneses. In our current social…

Y. M. NelsonAugust 25, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: An Investigation at a Boston College Turns Deadly

If you’ve read one Hank Phillippi Ryan book, you know to clear your schedule for the day because you won’t be able to put the book down until you get to the twisted, unpredictable, often socially timely conclusion. Say No More (Forge Books) was no different. Say No More is…

Kate MorettiApril 25, 2019

Fiction Miscellany

Bestselling and Beloved Author Anne Rice Passes Away at 80

Anne Rice, prolific author of more than 30 novels including Interview With the Vampire, passed away on December 11, 2021, at 80 years old. She was an extremely gifted Gothic novelist who always aimed for a high level of literary merit in her work and, as such, garnered a devoted…

Judy MorenoDecember 13, 2021

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Thrillers

The Ruinous Sweep: From “Fraggle Rock” to Twisting Thriller

Tim Wynne-Jones is an author with projects spanning across a diverse array of entertainment, from writing songs for the children's program Fraggle Rock to writing mind boggling thrillers for adults and young adults. The Ruinous Sweep is a twisting tale split between two perspectives and two worlds. The protagonist Donovan…

Rebecca ProulxJune 28, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Thrillers

Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” Now an Operatic Movie

In Italian, “bel canto” means “beautiful singing.” Readers of Ann Patchett’s 2001 novel, Bel Canto (Harper Perennial) could only imagine the music that is so crucial to its plot. No longer. The romantic thriller now has an operatic soundtrack of classic arias. The new movie version, in wide release Sept. 14,…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 12, 2018

Book Club Network Thrillers

Industrial Sabotage and Organized Crime a Fatal Mix in “Final Flight”

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur on a six-hour trip to Beijing. But not long after takeoff, air traffic control lost contact with the Boeing 777. It never landed. Or, more accurately, we don’t know where it landed after running out of fuel seven hours…

Cynthia ConradJune 30, 2020

Book Club Network Thrillers

Labyrinth of Lies, Secrets and Apprehension in “The Other Mrs.”

“There’s something off about the house,” begins Mary Kubica’s spine-chilling The Other Mrs. (Park Row Books). Maybe there’s something off about the novel, too, because it’s unnervingly difficult to put down. Kubica’s meticulous writing draws the reader into a labyrinth of lies, secrets and apprehension, with a more than a…

Judy MorenoFebruary 18, 2020

Book Club Network Thrillers

D.C. Detective Navigates Two Worlds in “The Reflecting Pool”

Is there room for yet-another thriller series centered around a cynical, witty homicide detective who skirts the law and has a mysterious past? If the detective is Marko Zorn in Otho Eskin’s The Reflecting Pool (Oceanview), the answer is that you might want to make space on your bookshelf. In…

Dennis HetzelJune 23, 2020

Book Club Network Thrillers

Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

In Mike Bond’s latest thriller Goodbye Paris (Big City Press), that’s how Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins remembers what happened eight years ago in Mosul, when he and his buddy Mack were grabbed by Mustafa al-Boudienne and Mustafa’s terrorist crew. Pono and Mack escaped. And now Mustafa is thought to…

Jim ParryJune 25, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

Dial M for a Midnight Murder

Everyone dreads that terrifying call that comes in the middle of the night. Your worst fears might be realized, your life changed forever in the minute it takes to answer. Jessie Martin never expected to hear the word murder on the other end of the line. That ringing phone was…

K.L. RomoJune 18, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

Who doesn’t love an irreverent badass who admits he’s a screw-up? Duck Darley is the most damaged anti-hero you’d never want to meet in a dark corner of New York City. In Casey Barrett’s The Tower of Songs: A Duck Darley Novel (Kensington) East meets West when a Chinese power…

K.L. RomoAugust 20, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Compelling readers to turn the pages in a novel with a hateful anti-hero and few sympathetic characters is tricky, but A.F. Brady succeeds and captivates in the complex, intricately plotted and propulsive psychological thriller Once A Liar (Park Row Books). A.F. Brady, the pseudonym of a Manhattan psychotherapist, is also…

Ann LinebergerApril 9, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

Puzzles, Espionage and a Ticking Time Bomb

By page 3 of Dan Grant's Thirteen Across (MindScape Press), Agent Morgan is crawling over body parts to escape a subway train wreck, fire sucking up the air and sending sparks and white-hot shards of Plexiglas into the melee. People are screaming and dying and being carted out in various…

Sherri DaleyJune 4, 2019

Is it Suicide or “Murder in Old Bombay”?

Tana French’s Standalone Stunner Follows Chicago Cop’s Search for Missing Irish Teen

“Emergency Powers:” A Political Conspiracy Thriller for Our Crazy Times

Neighborly Curiosity Crosses a Line as Nosiness Becomes Stalking in “When I Was You”

Tall Poppy Review: An Investigation at a Boston College Turns Deadly

Bestselling and Beloved Author Anne Rice Passes Away at 80

The Ruinous Sweep: From “Fraggle Rock” to Twisting Thriller

Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” Now an Operatic Movie

Industrial Sabotage and Organized Crime a Fatal Mix in “Final Flight”

Labyrinth of Lies, Secrets and Apprehension in “The Other Mrs.”

D.C. Detective Navigates Two Worlds in “The Reflecting Pool”

Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

Dial M for a Midnight Murder

A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Puzzles, Espionage and a Ticking Time Bomb

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