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Yin & Yang & Chinese Face Reading in “Faces Tell All”

Imagine an app that could analyze faces to match you with your perfect mate. And maybe the app could evolve into fashion advice and party games. But what if someone also used that same face-reading technology to spy on the American population and create propaganda? These are the techno what-ifs…
K.L. Romo
May 21, 2019
Thrillers

A Domestic Thriller with Gargoyles and Dumbwaiters

Riley Sager’s suspense novel Lock Every Door (Dutton) features Jules Larsen, a vulnerable, self-esteem-starved twenty-five-year-old. Since her beloved sister’s disappearance four years prior and her parents’ tragic deaths soon after, she has journeyed to Manhattan to pursue big-city dreams. Instead, at the novel’s opening, Jules finds herself without a job,…
Gisèle Lewis
June 20, 2019
Thrillers

Strong Winds of Change for Jon Land’s Texas Ranger

Think of Jon Land’s latest Caitlin Strong novel, Strong as Steel (Forge Books), as a tenth-anniversary special. As the author mentions in his final notes, Hollywood often talks about stories that are different but the same. Strong as Steel leans toward different for the Caitlin Strong franchise, but in every…
James R. Hannibal
April 23, 2019
Thrillers

An Inheritance Leads to Jealousy and Violence

Murder, stalking, secrets, wealth, power and prestige are all packed into Liv Constantine’s The Last Time I Saw You (Harper), an intoxicating and layered cat-and-mouse thriller that surprises with its ingenious twists and turns until the very end. Beloved Baltimore heiress and philanthropist Lily Michaels is dead - bludgeoned to…
Ann Lineberger
April 29, 2019
Thrillers

Unlocking a Murder Mystery in Key West

Is it that he's a writer? He’s commissioned to write a book about his trauma and near-death experience fighting corruption and killing a man in a small Midwest college town. Is it that he's an investigator? Not by trade, but he has a knack for finding trouble and being drawn…
Jim Alkon
May 8, 2019
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 Barrett
March 15, 2019
Thrillers

Better Watch Out: Killer Santa Takes Instead of Gives

Dennis McCort is a learned fellow. He’s a retired college German professor, literary translator, language buff, music expert, and author of several books, ranging from A Kafkaesque Memoir tracing his own experience in psychoanalysis to a comedy, The Man Who Loved Doughnuts. The description of one of his books says…
Jim Alkon
April 3, 2019
Thrillers

Hypocrisy and Homicide in the Hamptons in “One Little Secret”

In Cate Holahan’s electric Hamptons thriller, One Little Secret (Crooked Lane Books), love, passion, abuse and betrayal snake through the lives of three seemingly flawless couples. Their $3,000 per night waterfront rental in the exclusive Amagansett enclave is just what they need to get to know each other better. But…
K.L. Romo
July 9, 2019
Thrillers

Casey Barrett’s Odd Duck Investigator Probes Murder

Shadowed by ruthless criminals and lured in by his impossibly sexy yet newly vulnerable business partner, P.I. Duck Darley struggles to stay sober and alive as he runs a reckless murder investigation. The victim was his business partner's boyfriend, a journalist who was about to uncover the horrors of doping…
Anne Eliot Feldman
March 20, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Heather Graham Pens a Bold Thriller

Bestselling author Heather Graham returns to her New York Confidential series with A Lethal Legacy (MIRA Books)—a thriller that involves a modern murder and a cocktail of historic mysteries ranging from the Knights Templar to the Ark of the Covenant and the Vikings in America, with a twist of alien…
J.H. Bogran
March 5, 2019
Thrillers

Coben’s Search for Runaway Daughter Exposes Dark World

It was the businessman’s eldest daughter, Paige, who he hadn’t seen in six months. He approaches her and begs her to come home, but she runs. That’s how New York Times bestselling thriller master Harlan Coben sets up his latest novel, Run Away (Grand Central Publishing). The story follows Simon…
Jim Alkon
March 14, 2019
Thrillers

Valentine’s Day Is Over–Bring On Jon Land’s Thrillers

Time to take a respite from the romance of the recent holiday with eight captivating thrillers, chosen by esteemed author Jon Land. Break out your heart-shaped chocolates and dive right into some highly anticipated reads--you'll be glad you gave any of these a shot! Seldom has a writer laid claim…
Jon Land
February 15, 2019

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