The Silver Waterfall, the Year’s Best Historical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Honored in the Best Thriller Book Awards as the Best Historical Thriller of 2021. In the desolate middle of the largest ocean on earth, two great navies met, one bent on conclusive battle, the other lying in ambush. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto again crossed the Pacific with the most powerful naval armada the world had ever seen, this time to […]

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Danger Inside the Beltway

Danger Inside the Beltway, a Fast-Paced Thriller by Terri Greening

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The Bottom Line: A fast-paced and timely thriller about the outsized influence of wealth in American politics.  Reporter Tarryn Blue secured her dream job right out of Georgetown graduate school – an investigative journalism role that landed her in the White House Press Briefing Room. Overall, Tarryn’s life seems to have nothing but upside. An impending marriage to the man of her dreams, access to

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Nine Minutes

Nine Minutes Eleven Seconds, an Irresistible Terrorism Thriller by L.V. Pederson

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The Bottom Line: Pederson’s debut novel is an irresistible terrorism thriller featuring an unlikely heroine you won’t soon forget.  Nine Minutes Eleven Seconds opens as Silicon Valley executive assistant Samantha Dockett is catapulted into the air by a speeding SUV. The driver exits the vehicle and – in the most reassuring manner imaginable – finishes the hit by breaking her neck.  A month later, Sam’s replacement, Madison Cooper, arrives at

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Treasure Coast, an Engrossing Crime Thriller by James Foley

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The Bottom Line: An engrossing, character-driven crime thriller that thoughtfully explores grief, atonement and post-loss romance alongside gritty police work. Recommended for Karin Slaughter fans.  Miami senior homicide investigator Lisa Owens became a police officer as a direct response to the unsolved shooting death of her fiance, Scott Diaz. Was Scott, a congressional aide, gunned down for political reasons? When a D.C. cop invites Lisa

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Red Lines, an Unmissable Military Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: Simply unmissable for fans of LT Ryan, Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.  Since the 1978 Iranian revolution, American diplomatic relations with Iran have resembled a hot cauldron that occasionally boils over into bursts of limited combat. Until now, the situation has yet to fully tip into all-out war. Red Lines, Book 3 in Bultema’s Sea of Red series, imagines a believable series of events that might lead hostilities

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Dirty Deeds, a Clever Murder Mystery by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid

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The Bottom Line: A cleverly-constructed murder mystery with a one-of-a-kind heroine at its core. The fourth book in the Sammy Greene series opens in New York City, as smug real estate tycoon Vince Garibaldi is lured into a midnight hour meeting. After handing over a thumb drive and denying accusations of being a snitch, he’s summarily bludgeoned to death, belted into his Porsche, and sunk

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Stuntman

The Stuntman, an Impeccably Paced Action Thriller by Evan Graver

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The Bottom Line: Don’t miss this sharply funny, impeccably paced action thriller. Amidst an ocean of heroes who take themselves far too seriously, Luke Wesson is a breath of fresh air. The Stuntman opens on a Hollywood movie set as Luke Wesson – doubling for actor Jordan Reese – prepares to jump his motorbike onto the roof of a moving train. After a bee sting triggers

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The Best C.J. Box Books, Ranked in Order

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What are the best CJ Box books? For newcomers to Box’s work, deciding which book to pick up first is a serious challenge. That’s because Box has been incredibly prolific in the years since the publication of his first novel. Box is best known for his Joe Pickett series, featuring an honest, upright, hardworking and faithful Wyoming Game and Fish warden. Pickett’s famous flaw is

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The Lincoln Lawyer Books in Order (Including Bosch Series)

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Looking for a list of all the Lincoln Lawyer books in order? We’ve done all the hard work for you by detailing not only the Lincoln Lawyer books featuring Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller, but also the numerous Harry Bosch series books in which Haller makes an appearance. Our list is for Lincoln Lawyer completionists – fans who want to not only read all the

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The Best Medical Thriller Books of The 21st Century

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The best medical thriller books of the 21st Century range from conspiracies about terrifying places where shocking research is carried out, to period pieces about the horrors of mental institutions. Elsewhere, technology threatens to take something that seems like a cure and turn it into something positively lethal. Fertility treatments are invented to save humanity, only to go horribly awry. And don’t forget what may

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