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New Book Trailer for David Baldacci’s Hell’s Corner

The book trailer for David Baldacci’s new spy thriller, Hell’s Corner, is a short spot featuring footage from Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park, where his Camel Club book series began.

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Watch the New Stephen King Book Trailer

Full Dark, No Stars, is the title of Stephen King’s forthcoming supernatural thriller. Check out the book trailer now.

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Best Books: The Top 5 Thrillers of 2010

So many books to read and so little time. We’ve read more great books this year than in any other in recent memory. Increasingly, talented authors seem to be drifting into the thriller genre with new approaches to familiar literary conventions. Here’s our take on the best of the best so far.

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Book Review: Justin Cronin’s The Passage

Earlier in the year, we called Justin Cronin the ultimate literary outlier. Cronin, the winner of the Pen/Faulkner award for a book that his Iowa Writer’s Workshop cronies must have admired, went off and wrote himself a gory-ass vampire novel. For those of you unfamiliar with the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, it ‘s far more prestigious [...]

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Best Books: Top 5 Apocalypse Thrillers

With apocalypse thrillers all the rage at the box office over the past few years (2012, anyone?), it’s easy to forget how many great books are devoted to a modern-day Revelations. Check out our top picks and weigh in with your own.

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Five Best Books From ThrillerFest

Had we not had a big family gathering to attend, we certainly would’ve been at ThrillerFest in New York this year. Put on by the International Thriller Writers, the festival is part Emmys and part Comic-Con, giving fans a chance to chat with each other as well as meet the writers they adore. Fortunately Contra [...]

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Thrillers: 100 Must Reads Released

In Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, David Morrill and David Wagner have compiled one of the year’s more controversial essay collections. Employing a very broad definition of a thriller — pretty much anything that “quickens the reader’s heartbeat” — the collection makes a case for a top 100 list of thrillers that includes everything from Dan [...]

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Critics Murder Glenn Beck’s Paranoid Thriller. Fans Buy it Anyway.

A compilation of reviews for right-wing extremist Glenn Beck’s paranoid new thriller, The Overton Window.

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Justin Cronin’s New Supernatural Thriller, The Passage, Makes Him the Ultimate Literary Outlier

If Justin Cronin’s new supernatural thriller The Passage makes the bestseller list, Cronin may become the only big-time vampire novelist with a prize-winning literary pedigree.

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Best Thrillers: The Summer Reading List, Part II

Another slew of exciting thrillers is on deck for release between now and August 1st. Here’s a sneak peek at the spy novels that are filling up our queue.

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