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The latest mystery and thriller book reviews, including crime fiction, legal thrillers, historical fiction, horror, fantasy, medical, romantic suspense, sci-fi and much more.

Alejandro’s Lie, the Year’s Best Political Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Political Thriller of 2021. Terreno, 1983, Latin America. After a dictatorship of ten years, the brutal junta, lead by general Pelarón, seems to waver. Alejandro Juron, guitarist of the famous poet and folk singer Victor Pérez who’s been executed by the junta, is released from the infamous prison “The Last Supper.” The […]

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Newark Minutemen, the Year’s Best Romantic Suspense Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Best Romantic Suspense Thriller of 2021. Newark, NJ, 1938. Millions are out of work and robbed of dignity. A shadow Hitler-Nazi party called the German-American Bund that is led by an American Fuhrer threatens to swallow democracy. In this dangerous time of star-spangled fascism, a romance forms between the Jewish boxer, Yael and the daughter of the enemy, Krista. But

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The Three Lives of Richie O’Malley, the Year’s Best Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Crime Thriller of 2021. At the end of his life, a man is forced to face his past in the cold light of truth. That’s the official hype, anyway…Richie – a lifelong mob hitman – must come to terms with the death of his best friend, a mounting government investigation into his

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Cover Your Tracks, the Year’s Best Action Thriller By Daco Auffenorde

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The Bottom Line:  Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Action Thriller of 2021. Margo Fletcher, eight months pregnant, is traveling by train from Chicago to Spokane, her childhood home. While passing through an isolated portion of the Rockies in blizzard conditions, the train unexpectedly brakes. Up ahead, deadly snow from a massive avalanche plummets down the mountain. Despite the conductor’s order

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JK’s Code, The Year’s Best Conspiracy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A timely, compulsively readable political and legal thriller that wryly connects the terrors of the dark web with the fragile state of democracy. Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Conspiracy Thriller of 2021. In a world where activists like Julian Assange have become famous for extravagant government exposes, Ron Barak’s new political thriller imagines what is at stake

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Thrill Chase, a Spectacular Time Travel Novel by John Spietz

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The Bottom Line: If you’re looking for a spectacular time travel book, look no further than Thrill Chase. Fans of historical thrillers and time-travel tales get the best of both worlds in this stunner by John Spietz. The novel begins, fittingly, as a plane carrying commercial fisherman Jason Oliver lands in Sitka (thankfully, Spietz includes a map of Southeast Alaska and Sitka). After being out

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A Quantum Alibi, The Year’s Best Sci-Fi Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Murder mystery meets quantum fiction in this addictive, cinematic novel from the author of The Newton Code. Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Sci-Fi Thriller of 2021. Liam Fialkov’s latest novel opens with a lecture at Columbia University by Professor Patrick Eldrige, an authority on quantum physics. Eldridge makes a bold claim: after the lecture, he will travel

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Burn Me Out, a Top-Shelf Mafia Thriller by Brandon Barrows

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The Bottom Line: A well-crafted mafia thriller set in the modern age. As far as his wife and the government knows, 46-year-old Al Vacarro works for Castella Shipping & Transport. But Al and his boss, Eddie Castella, are in fact mobsters. But the business is changing, and Al wants out. The question facing him is one as old as time: will the mob ever let

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Soul Seeker, the Year’s Best Paranormal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A pulse-pounding paranormal thriller with a timeless feel and a huge heart. Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Paranormal Thriller of 2021. Soul Seeker begins like a fable as Benjamin Poe, the “most hated and feared man to ever live,” asking his attorney to listen to his story. Until his arrest for the murder of his son Gabriel,

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The Hiding Girl, The Year’s Best Psychological Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Psychological Thriller of 2021. When two predators come to 12-year-old Emily Calby’s home asking to siphon gasoline, she immediately senses what her mother does not – their lives are in imminent danger. Only Emily escapes. Armed with extraordinary powers of perception and five-thousand dollars that her father had stashed in the garage,

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