Bella Wright

Hard Worked Days, a Darkly Funny Alien Contact Thriller by Lawrence P. O’Brien

The Bottom Line: A bold, darkly funny alien contact thriller where catastrophe is only the beginning and escape may be impossible. Hard Worked Days begins as Fares Khalil, a Lebanese immigrant and Brooklyn building superintendent, tries to fix a tenant’s toilet. Meanwhile across the neighborhood, Ionna Sari is working at Monica’s Bakery, juggling impatient customers, burnt cookies and the kind of ordinary exhaustion that comes […]

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What Have You Done With My Son?: a Fully Believable Kidnapping Thriller

By Bella Wright

The Bottom Line: Fully believable from its first shock to its final reckoning, Rosenberg has created the new standard for a modern kidnapping thriller. American couple Heather and John Ricci are in Hanoi with the baby they have fought years to bring home. After failed attempts at natural conception, multiple rounds of IVF, a miscarriage, and stalled adoption efforts in China and Nepal, the Chicago

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Thriller Book Awards: The 2026 BestThrillers.com Book Awards Are Accepting Submissions

By Bella Wright

Updated on April 3, 2026 The 2026 edition of the BestThrillers.com Book Awards, the book award series specifically devoted to recognizing amazing mystery and thriller books across 15 popular sub-genres, is now accepting submissions. This year, seventy-six (76) deserving authors will be recognized for their outstanding achievements in the thriller and mystery genres. The 2026 Overall Book of the Year Winner will receive $1000 in

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The Séance of Murder, a Victorian Murder Mystery With Blockbuster Potential

By Bella Wright

The Bottom Line: This Victorian murder mystery has all the ingredients for a blockbuster: a sealed room, an unsolved murder and revelations that make you question everything you think you know. Set in Victorian England, opens with the arrival of retired bookkeeper Dunston Burnett at Crenshaw Hall, a dark, fortress-like estate outside Cambridge. Dunston has been summoned by the dying Sir Hugo Crenshaw, an elderly relative

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Book Marketing Strategies 2026: What Authors and Publishers Say Works Now

By Bella Wright

From advertising and reviews to audiobooks and BookTok, our latest survey reveals how book marketing is evolving—and where the biggest opportunities may lie. Key Takeaways Each year, we survey 1000+ authors, publicists, and people working in the publishing industry to get a pulse on the latest trends in book marketing, publication formats and more. We combine this data with context from third party sources to

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The Lincoln Lawyer Books in Order (Including Bosch Series)

By Bella Wright

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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Night Plague, a Wickedly Original Outbreak Thriller by Alex Lettau

By Bella Wright

The Bottom Line: A wickedly original outbreak thriller grounded in scientific realism. As Night Plague opens, former CDC epidemiologist Dr. Kris Jensen arrives in Stevens Crossing, Tennessee. The town is simmering with widespread insomnia, rage and impulsive violence. Kris comes at the invitation of Dan Stevens, a public health director who knows the town well enough to recognize that this isn’t just stress or bad luck. Something

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Swallowing the Muskellunge, a Lyrical Historical Fantasy Thriller by Lawrence O’Brien

By Bella Wright

The Bottom Line: A historical fantasy with teeth, told with startling elegance and lyricism. Swallowing the Muskellunge is the story of London Oxford, an ex-slave navigating a world where freedom can be threatened by violence, the whims of powerful men and forces he cannot name. London commits his family to a precarious northbound winter caravan of sleighs headed toward a “promised land” in what would

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Extraterrestrial Noir is the Year’s Best Sci-Fi Thriller

By Bella Wright

The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Extraterrestrial Noir opens on the night of a forecasted meteor shower in suburban New Jersey. The Devine family — husband Connie, wife Maggie, brother Danny and uber-intellectual 12-year-old daughter Mike – gather in the front yard in the hours before dawn to catch a glimpse of the predicted celestial fireworks. However,

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Midnight Burning is the Year’s Best Historical Thriller

By Bella Wright

The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Historical Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Midnight Burning fuses authentic history with exhilarating storytelling. Its seamless mix of fact and fiction feels both inventive and uncannily real, creating a narrative that surprises even as it rings true. The result is a bold, original thriller about a slice of American history that has largely been forgotten. Levine plunges

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