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ITW Spotlight: Killing, Comedy, and Country Music

Sophie Hannah’s not a stand-up comedienne… yet. But she gets to play the part in her newest thriller, The Next to Die (William Morrow Books). In it, comedienne Kim Tribbeck finds herself center-stage in a string of homicides that have an unusual twist—the murdered couples are all best friends. But…
K.L. Romo
February 20, 2019
Thrillers

Lisa Gardner Discloses All on New Thriller “Never Tell”

In the latest thriller of the Detective D.D. Warren series, Never Tell (Dutton), best-selling author Lisa Gardner peels back layer after layer of secrets to reveal a clever, determined murderer. Evie Carter, a pregnant high school math teacher, finds her husband shot dead in his home office. Instead of dialing 9-1-1, she picks up…
Gisèle Lewis
January 31, 2019
Thrillers

A Mystery and a Mind Unravel in “The Silent Patient”

Alex Michaelides grew up reading Agatha Christie “obsessively,” but she never wrote anything like this. The Silent Patient (Celadon Books) grips you immediately, but where it goes is completely unpredictable – and it takes you to dark corners of the human psyche you never knew existed. “I love him so totally,…
Neil Nyren
February 6, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: FBI Agent Pendergast Partners Up

FBI Special Agent Pendergast is assigned to work with a new partner in Verses for the Dead (Grand Central), the latest thriller in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s hugely popular series. And, as fans of the famously rogue operative might expect, Pendergast finds that almost as challenging as the series of…
R.G. Belsky
January 8, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Chatting with David Baldacci

According to bestselling author David Baldacci, when you’ve written as many books as he has—10 series, or a total of 30 books and counting; and another 12 stand-alone novels—there’s one way to keep his writing razor-sharp: “Start from Square One: create a new character, a new series—a new world.” With…
Josie Brown
December 12, 2018
Thrillers

Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud: Chatting with Mike Lupica

As a reviewer and insider, Ryan Steck has been called “the Godfather of the thriller genre.” In this first contributed piece to BookTrib, Ryan names every thriller hitting the bookshelves this fall that genre aficionados should know about. Visit Ryan at www.therealbookspy.com. Replacing an icon can’t be easy, but you wouldn’t know…
Ryan Steck
November 30, 2018
Thrillers

The Elderly Female Antihero We Never Knew We Needed

Maud an 88-year-old introverted Swedish woman, seems so innocuous and frail....but of course maybe that's the perfect cover for getting away with murder. In Helene Tursten's An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good (Soho Press), the resources normal senior citizens rely on for rehabilitation quickly turn to tools of…
Rebecca Proulx
November 7, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Exploring the Eerie Lake Superior

Sometimes, as readers, we don’t know what we’ve been longing for until after it arrives. For instance, the eerie pleasures of a suspenseful, atmospheric novel set on Lake Superior become evident when we wrap ourselves around a sentence such as, “No one who was alive when her body floated onto…
Nancy Bilyeau
November 13, 2018
Thrillers

“Manuscript for Murder:” The Cozy Thriller

With Manuscript for Murder (Berkley), the second installment of the long-running Murder She Wrote series penned by Jon Land, the author pushes the series into new territory, blurring the boundary between cozy mysteries and thrillers. Or perhaps he is forming a new genre: the cozy thriller. Land took the mantle of…
James R. Hannibal
November 6, 2018
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Digging Up the Past with Lee Child

Iconic anti-hero Jack Reacher has made thriller writer Lee Child an internationally renowned author. In Past Tense (Delacorte Press)—the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series—a turn in the road takes Child’s avenging loner to his long-deceased father’s hometown, where the ghosts of his past aren’t necessarily dead and buried.…
Josie Brown
November 5, 2018
Thrillers

A Chat with “The Guilty Dead” Author P.J. Tracy

We chatted with P.J. Tracy, author of the thriller The Guilty Dead, now available to purchase. P.J. Tracy was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot To Thrill, Off the Grid, The Sixth Idea,…
Meagan Foy
October 16, 2018
Thrillers

Author P.J. Tracy Opens Up on Her First Solo Novel

“Some secrets are worth killing for.” That’s the setup for the highly anticipated thriller, The Guilty Dead, (Crooked Lane Books) the first solo novel by Traci Lambrecht since the passing of her mother P.J. Lambrecht. The pair wrote as P.J. Tracy, and that tradition carries on with one of the…
BookTrib
September 11, 2018

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