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Thrillers

When the Killer is “Someone We Know”

‘Domestic suspense’ – It’s a rather loaded term for a subgenre, isn’t it? It seems, intended or otherwise, to be a marketing phrase coined to target a very specific set of readers: ie suburban moms who love mysteries and thrillers. Don’t get me wrong, like the ‘soccer mom’ vote, this…
Casey Barrett
July 30, 2019
Thrillers

Cults, Explosions and Disappearances in Karin Slaughter’s Latest

The sudden abduction of infectious disease specialist Michelle Spivey causes panic in Karin Slaughter’s latest, The Last Widow (William Morrow). Despite their best efforts, both local and federal law enforcement find very little answers. Then the local medical center explodes. Beloved characters Will Trent and Sara Linton are unknowingly brought…
Missi Gwartney
August 19, 2019
Thrillers

Blood on the Page: Chanelle Benz’s “The Gone Dead”

In Chanelle Benz’s The Gone Dead (Ecco), the dead aren’t really gone. Billie James has returned to the dilapidated house in Greendale, Mississippi, where her father, a renowned black poet, lived. She hasn’t seen it in thirty years. “She had forgotten about the house, figured it’d been knocked down forever…
Neil Nyren
June 24, 2019
Thrillers

The Boy in the Floor, the Whisper at the Window

One of the quotes for Alex North’s The Whisper Man (Celadon) calls it a “seamless blend of Harlan Coben, Stephen King, and Thomas Harris.” I’d say that’s just about right. Novelist Tom Kennedy and his seven-year-old son Jake are both still grieving the death of the boy’s mother, Rebecca. Everything…
Neil Nyren
July 29, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Harper’s Dark Storm of Suspense

In Karen Harper’s latest South Shores Series installment, Dark Storm, (MIRA)  a forensic psychologist Claire Markwood and her husband, criminal lawyer Nick, are on a harrowing, very personal adventure. This time, Claire’s younger sister Darcy goes missing, but when Claire heads to the butterfly sanctuary in southern Florida where Darcy…
Wendy Tyson
June 6, 2019
Thrillers

Mysteries and Middle Age Woes in “Pilate’s Blood”

Everybody slows down in their forties. Shouldn’t the same go for action heroes? This is the sort of commentary with which author J. Alexander Greenwood subverts the mystery series formula in Pilate’s Blood. John Pilate returns home to Cross Township to accept a position as the town constable while they…
Jeff Daugherty
June 13, 2019
Thrillers

How Far Would You Go to Save Your Child?

A few weeks ago, I met Adrian McKinty in the back room of a slick Manhattan bar. It was a tri-author book event hosted by Little, Brown, but really it was McKinty I was there to see. I was a fan, and I also felt a personal ‘thank you’ was…
Casey Barrett
July 9, 2019

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