Thriller Book Reviews

The best thriller book reviews, including crime, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, legal thrillers, medical, psychological thrillers, sci-fi and more.

Normal for the Spider, a Must-Read Thriller by Hank Schwaeble

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The Bottom Line: A must-read blend of horror, crime and comedy that reinvents the predator-versus-predator thriller. Warning: this review may contain spoilers! Normal for the Spider opens in an unnamed American city as Sienna Shaw, a practiced thief and experienced killer who committed her first murder shortly after turning fourteen, realizes she is being followed. Seeking to lose her pursuers, Sienna slips into a bookstore […]

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The Secessionist’s Wife, a Timely Political Thriller by Wolf Bahren

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The Bottom Line: A timely, fast-moving political thriller in which a staged terror attack becomes the opening move in an attempted coup against America. As The Secessionist’s Wife opens, American investigative journalist Anna Jones is accepting a press award in Washington when reports arrive of a devastating terrorist attack on Fort Riley, Kansas. She and boyfriend Viktor Simonson, a fellow reporter at the New York

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The Woulfe Intrusion, a Sophisticated Spy Thriller by Tim Gallows

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The Bottom Line: A fast, intelligent and emotionally sophisticated spy thriller debut. Fans of Saul Herzog and Mark Greaney will devour The Woulfe Intrusion and hope for an entire series. The Woulfe Intrusion opens in Lucerne, where Noah Turner, a young American cybersecurity engineer and penetration tester, races through the snow to the railway station, disables its cameras, makes a coded farewell call to his

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Blue Ridge, a High-Stakes Crime Thriller by James Foley

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The Bottom Line: The kind of second series book that fans expect: bigger stakes, harder questions and much more to lose. The second book in James Foley’s Lisa Owens series moves its protagonist from Miami homicide work into an FBI investigation stretching between Washington, D.C., and North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Foley begins with a massacre whose consequences will echo for half a century, opening

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Evelina Fontana, a Sexy and Thoroughly Addictive Spy Thriller by M. Rebecca Wildsmith

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The Bottom Line: A sexy, dark and thoroughly addictive thriller. Wildsmith is quickly carving out a genre all her own, and we are all in. In Evelina Fontana, M. Rebecca Wildsmith introduces a heroine whose dangerous intelligence precedes her formal career in espionage. Italian-born and raised in France, Evelina is an impatient nurse more fascinated by disturbed minds than ordinary medical care. Her interest in

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Burn Everything…Then Forget It, an Audacious Conspiracy Thriller by Boston Teran

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The Bottom Line: Boston Teran has reinvented the conspiracy thriller as a rapid-fire collage of memory, love and violence. Audacious, original and unforgettable. In the opening pages of Boston Teran’s new novel, a car bomb explodes outside a Bronx diner. Debris rains across the front of the diner, and hundreds of photographs scatter through the scene. One of the photographs shows an abandoned building covered

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Echoes of Fortune: Knights of the Golden Circle, a Must-Read Thriller by David R. Leng

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The Bottom Line: A must-read conspiracy thriller built on one jaw-dropping idea: the Confederacy’s heirs are waging a new battle for America. The third book in David R. Leng’s Echoes of Fortune series is a fast-moving thriller about a perpetual war that has survived by learning not to look like one. The story begins in 1864, during the final winter of the American Civil War.

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Before the Devil Knows, An Irresistible Crime Thriller by R. John Dingle

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The Bottom Line: Irresistible. Before the Devil Knows pushes Dingle’s Gus Wheeler series into its darkest terrain yet, where religious terror and ritual murder collide. Before the Devil Knows opens in the Maine woods with the kind of betrayal that makes a book impossible to put down. Teenager Adam Carson is dragged from his bed, hooded, beaten and chained to a tree and surrounded by

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GLORIA, a Tender and Terrifying Psychological Thriller by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: Small town noir that is as tender as it is terrifying, GLORIA mesmerizes while asking whether the greatest mysteries live not in the world, but in our minds. GLORIA begins in small-town Wisconsin as Henry Halder, a boy on the cusp of adolescence, loses both legs in a tragic accident. What exactly happened is elusive. While in and out of consciousness across many surgeries, he’s told

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Storm Damage, a Captivating Crime Thriller by Terry R. Bacon

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The Bottom Line: A captivating crime thriller led by an unlikely hero with a saxophone, a big heart, and a talent for finding trouble. Thirty-four-year-old blues musician Sonny Marshall, already struggling with chronic pain and oxycodone dependence, is playing with his band in San Francisco when he learns that girlfriend Detective Sergeant Katrina “Kat” Hastings has been shot while responding to a mass shooting.  Sonny

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