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Screenwriter’s Fast-Moving Thriller Novel Is Downright Cinematic

A troubled, depressed man who is having disturbing dreams goes to a therapist seeking answers. But, when he and the therapist begin to explore his life for clues, the horrors from his past suddenly come alive as a real-life nightmare that puts him and his loved ones in grave danger.…

R.G. BelskyJuly 24, 2024

Thrillers

A Girl Disappears. The Aftershocks Do Not.

“People don’t just disappear. Of course they don’t. They take up too much space in the world. They are pounds of flesh, gallons of blood. Teeth, bones, fingernails. It all has to go somewhere.” In Sarah Sawyer’s The Undercurrent, it is 2011, but it might as well be 1987. That…

Neil NyrenSeptember 27, 2024

Fiction

Richard Osman Delivers Laughs and Twists with a New Wacky Crime-Fighting Trio

Whenever Richard Osman releases a murder mystery, readers know they are in for a clever, good time. In We Solve Murders, (Pamela Dorman Books), Osman creates a wacky trio on the run from a Russian oligarch and a stream of anonymous assassins. When the bullets fly, Osman keeps his readers guessing…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 17, 2024

Miscellany Pop Culture

Is Manifesting Real or 21st-Century Snake Oil?

Manifesting …. is it real or is it a sham? Does it actually work? Or is it twenty-first century snake oil? In case you’ve been living under a rock, let me explain the concept of manifesting. Manifesting is the idea that if you really want something, you can have it.…

Sandra BlockSeptember 4, 2024

Thrillers

True Crime Meets Fiction in a Riveting Mystery That Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat

You’re invited to The Bachelorette Party, Sandra Block’s newest thrill-ride, where fact and fiction collide in a startling fashion, and nothing is quite as it seems. Alex is a true crime devotee researching the infamous 666 serial killer. She has the perfect life: a dream internship on a popular cable…

Nicole BaartSeptember 6, 2024

Thrillers

It’s Cotton Malone vs. the Knights of Malta

No one sells over 20 million books without understanding how to hook a reader. Over the past 17 years, and now with his 18th novel, The Malta Exchange (Minotaur Books), Steve Berry has mastered the art of page-turning. That elusive art is really the lifeblood of publishing. It’s a simple…

Casey BarrettMarch 15, 2019

Thrillers

Can Mike Bond Save the Beautiful Maine Environment?

Mike Bond In most thrillers, when a Special Forces vet battles the forces of evil, he fights for his life, his allies and his country, all in a fictional environment. But when Pono Hawkins, the main character of Mike Bond’s new thriller Killing Maine (Mandevilla Press, 2015), takes on the…

Michael RuscoeAugust 3, 2015

Miscellany Thrillers

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

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

Fiction

Unravel the Gripping Mystery of “The Paris Widow” by Kimberly Belle

Kimberley Belle has written a masterful, highly original fast-paced thriller The Paris Widow that keeps the reader guessing until the final chapter. Art thieves, dodgy antique dealers, smugglers, assassins, the FBI Art Crime Team and Interpol all co-mingle, becoming enmeshed in what was to be the dream vacation of a…

Linda HitchcockJuly 2, 2024

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Max Tomlinson’s Latest Novel May Be a “Bad Scene” But It’s Good News for Thriller Fans

Book 3 in Max Tomlinson’s rapid-fire Colleen Hayes Mystery series, Bad Scene (Oceanview Publishing), can stand on its own feet, but that doesn’t mean that the characters don’t get knocked around. The prologue sets us in the Amazon Rainforest … and, apparently, in an alarming cult that Colleen’s daughter Pamela…

Judy MorenoAugust 3, 2021

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

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Elite Assassin Never Misses His Mark in 2022’s Top Watched Netflix Film

The film adaptation of Mark Greaney’s first thriller, The Gray Man (Berkley), premiered on Netflix earlier this year and quickly became the platform’s most-watched movie of 2022 — and it’s currently the fourth most-watched original film in Netflix history. The movie was an instant audience favorite, and a sequel and…

BookTribOctober 19, 2022

Author Spotlight Thrillers

A Dire Warning for America in “Hate’s Recompense” by Joseph Gibson

Hate’s Recompense by Joseph Gibson is a warning of what the future of America could look like if we’re not careful. “It is a warning of how a ruthless president could exploit technology to take over the country and eradicate anyone who opposes him,” says the author. “The book is not about the…

Daniela RamrasAugust 3, 2020

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Rollins Spins a Cautionary Tale of Artificial Intelligence

This cruel retort, made by the monster in Mary Shelley’s classic tale, Frankenstein, never fails to send chills up readers’ spines. But should the events depicted in James Rollins’ latest novel, Crucible (William Morrow), come to pass and scientists soon develop an artificial intelligence capable of warp-speed learning capacity, fact will…

Josie BrownJanuary 16, 2019

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

Screenwriter’s Fast-Moving Thriller Novel Is Downright Cinematic

Is Manifesting Real or 21st-Century Snake Oil?

It’s Cotton Malone vs. the Knights of Malta

Can Mike Bond Save the Beautiful Maine Environment?

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

Max Tomlinson’s Latest Novel May Be a “Bad Scene” But It’s Good News for Thriller Fans

Puzzles, Espionage and a Ticking Time Bomb

Elite Assassin Never Misses His Mark in 2022’s Top Watched Netflix Film

A Dire Warning for America in “Hate’s Recompense” by Joseph Gibson

ITW Spotlight: Rollins Spins a Cautionary Tale of Artificial Intelligence

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

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