Who are you planning to bump off this summer? Oh, don’t look shocked. If it isn’t an in-law, blood relative, supervisor, cubicle mate, or politician, then it’s the barista who has never once acknowledged your daily presence in the coffee shop. (Could be your lack of tipping—just saying.) Before doing…
AudioFileAugust 8, 2019
Summer is on the horizon — we can feel it! Spring is having some seventy-degree days here on the East Coast and that means that the beach is on our planner. Maybe not this month, but next month for sure. Day trips, weekend getaways, week-long relaxation fests; we are all…
Kate MorettiApril 1, 2021
Having a journalist as the main character is good news and bad news. The good news is that it solves one of the trickiest problems in crime fiction writing: if your character is not in law enforcement of some kind (or at least a private detective) and they come across…
Hank Phillippi RyanJuly 29, 2021
When reading psychological thrillers, you quickly learn that you can’t trust anyone or anything. Certainly not what the characters say and do, and especially not your own interpretation of what’s really happening. Sometimes you can’t even trust the narrator. An unreliable — or even unstable — narrator adds an extra…
Cameron KimballDecember 1, 2020
Jon Land’s Thrill List: April Excites With Old Hollywood, Hitchcockian Technique and Historic Horror
I don’t know how David Baldacci juggles the number of books and series he does with such skill and aplomb. For proof, look no further than Dream Town (Grand Central), his third tale featuring World War II vet, and now private investigator, Aloysius Archer. The period piece, set in 1953,…
Jon LandApril 15, 2022
New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles play host to more than their fair share of crime novels. The last six months alone gave life to major releases such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle (review), Emmy Award-winner Tamron Hall’s As the Wicked Watch (review) and #1 NYT bestselling…
Chelsea CicconeDecember 21, 2021
https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Autopsy-200x305.jpeg The holidays are all about time spent with family and friends. That makes Patricia Cornwell’s triumphant return of our old friend Kay Scarpetta in Autopsy (Morrow) all the more appropriate. Last seen in 2016’s Chaos, Scarpetta and her trusty coroner’s scalpel return to her original stomping grounds of Virginia…
Jon LandDecember 27, 2021
Harlan Coben rolls the dice with Win (Grand Central) and comes out a big, well, winner. The Win of the title, of course, is Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a central figure in Coben’s terrific Myron Bolitar series, who we know as a fabulously wealthy fixer not afraid to get his…
Jon LandMarch 24, 2021
When seasons change, there is a sense of magic in the air. November is the start of the traditional season of gratitude, fellowship, spirituality and hope. This month's women’s fiction storylines involve magic shops, fortune-telling, astrology, psychics, magical foods and mystical intrigue. With literary spells as enchanting as this, well,…
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationNovember 10, 2021
