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Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman Talk About the Inception of “Red Deception”

This team is coming in clutch again with the next book of their winning thriller series. Game one was Red Hotel, which you can read our review of to either refresh your memory or get the necessary information to jump right into the second book, Red Deception. Read our review…

BookTribJune 28, 2021

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Liz Alterman Unveils a Mysterious and Riveting YA Novel

Picking someone up from the airport is always a drag, but sometimes it’s downright dangerous. He’ll Be Waiting (Willow River Press) by Liz Alterman tells of a spunky teenager who does a favor for her significant other by retrieving his traveling friend. Next thing she knows, she knows nothing; she’s…

BookTribJuly 6, 2021

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ITW Spotlight: J.D. Barker’s Fascinating Road to Success

In talking about his new novel, A Caller’s Game, (Hampton Creek Press) author J.D. Barker spent some time reflecting on his long and varied career. Some highlights include breaking in as a writer while working as a high-priced babysitter for rock stars, heading out unannounced to Stephen King’s house to…

Adam MeyerApril 29, 2021

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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

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Joel C. Rosenberg on the Reality Behind the Fictional Thrillers

“The top priority of a thriller writer is to thrill. To make your heart rate spike.” So says author Joel C. Rosenberg, and when it comes to his latest work, The Beirut Protocol, mission accomplished. “I want you to be able to look over the shoulders of bad guys plotting…

BookTribApril 5, 2021

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ITW Spotlight: Dean Koontz’s Imagination Knows Few Boundaries

After publishing more than 100 books, including countless New York Times bestsellers and classic novels like Phantoms, Strangers and Watchers, Dean Koontz is famously impossible to pin down: does he write thrillers? Yes. Horror? Yes. Science fiction? Romance? Fantasy? Yes, yes, and yes. For a long time, that was a liability, especially as Koontz was trying…

Adam MeyerMarch 22, 2021

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R.J. King Author Profile

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DSC00068-300x300.jpg R.J. King General Fiction Author of a debut thriller about a detective and a prolific serial killer, going back into the past of both men and showing the journey they took to eventually end up on an inevitable collision course.

Judy MorenoFebruary 22, 2021

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Sarah Penner on “The Lost Apothecary”: Secrets, Poison and Revenge

“She would come at daybreak – the woman whose letter I held in my hands, the woman whose name I did not yet know. “I knew neither her age nor where she lived. I did not know her rank in society nor the dark things of which she dreamed when…

Neil NyrenFebruary 26, 2021

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Linda L. Richards Author Profile

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Linda-L.-Richards-Headshot-300x300.jpg Linda L. Richards Thriller/Crime Fiction Experienced author writing strong female protagonists in engrossing page-turners.

Judy MorenoFebruary 18, 2021

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SE Keller Reveals What Goes Into Writing a New War in her Debut Novel “Rain”

A war with no discernible cause or motivation. The “New War'' in S.E. Keller’s Rain is one such conflict. Waging for over a year, the true origins of the “New War” remain unknown. Some believe it was the work of a terrorist organization while others speculate that it was “a…

Judy MorenoFebruary 22, 2021

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7 YA Novels With Teens Facing Trauma Too Close to Home

“I’m just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they?” So says Holden Caulfield in the classic Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden may have just been going through a phase, but he became a cultural and literary icon when he paved…

Judy MorenoJanuary 26, 2021

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Tara Lush Talks About the Creativity Behind Her New Murder Mystery Series

Coffee and crime? Count us in! Grounds for Murder’s tongue-in-cheek title alone gives us a glimpse of the fun to come when reading the novel. Somehow, author Tara Lush manages to do it all in her playful first book in her Coffee Lovers Mystery Series starring a formidable (yet relatable!)…

Judy MorenoJanuary 25, 2021

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Fact Into Fiction: Sounding the Climate Change Alarm

Upset about the United States's recent approach to environmental policy and climate deniers, Arthur Jeon picked up his pen and began to write. Although he had published nonfiction works previously, Jeon decided to relay facts about climate change through fiction in his thriller Snowflake. He says, "studies have shown that…

BookTribDecember 8, 2020

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A Stylish Noir and a Woman You Do Not Want to Cross in “The Lady Upstairs”

“Maybe she wasn’t even a she at all. Except too many of the marks, the names funneled to Lou and me in white envelopes, were bad men — cheaters, assholes, men who never heard a no. They weren’t exclusively the men we targeted, but it was more than a passing…

Neil NyrenOctober 30, 2020

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ITW Spotlight: Lee Child Is Ready for Retirement! Fret Not, His Younger Brother Will Continue Jack Reacher

Before the end of chapter two of The Sentinel (Delacorte Press) — the latest Jack Reacher novel — our hero has been outnumbered in two fights, and the body count is rising. You know it’s coming. It always does. But Lee Child is so good at satisfying that visceral urge…

Rick PullenNovember 3, 2020

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ITW Spotlight: Tom Ryan Talks True Crime and the Power of Empathy

After publishing a string of well-received young adult and middle-grade contemporaries, Canadian author Tom Ryan made a splash last year with his debut thriller, Keep This to Yourself. Ryan’s novel about a gay teen who sets out to uncover the identity of a serial killer who terrorized his hometown and then…

April SnellingsOctober 14, 2020

Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman Talk About the Inception of “Red Deception”

Liz Alterman Unveils a Mysterious and Riveting YA Novel

ITW Spotlight: J.D. Barker’s Fascinating Road to Success

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

Joel C. Rosenberg on the Reality Behind the Fictional Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Dean Koontz’s Imagination Knows Few Boundaries

Sarah Penner on “The Lost Apothecary”: Secrets, Poison and Revenge

Linda L. Richards Author Profile

SE Keller Reveals What Goes Into Writing a New War in her Debut Novel “Rain”

Tara Lush Talks About the Creativity Behind Her New Murder Mystery Series

Fact Into Fiction: Sounding the Climate Change Alarm

A Stylish Noir and a Woman You Do Not Want to Cross in “The Lady Upstairs”

ITW Spotlight: Lee Child Is Ready for Retirement! Fret Not, His Younger Brother Will Continue Jack Reacher

ITW Spotlight: Tom Ryan Talks True Crime and the Power of Empathy

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