The Bottom Line: Best Action Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. How do you make a contemporary police procedural truly fresh? One way is to render your police detectives harbor police, so the jurisdiction, and all the ensuing action, spans both surf and turf. And for good measure, start your book with a gripping chapter told from the POV of a dog. The third book in Patrick Weill’s […]
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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Psychological Thriller, 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards Successfully telling a story from three or more points of view requires an exceptionally deep understanding of each character’s unique fears, desires and triggers. Marisa Rae Dondlinger’s winning novel does that and more, delivering a rare multi-dimensional narrative that feels intimate and unique at every turn. When Vanessa kidnaps her ex-lover’s newborn baby, some
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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best political thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Awards. M.K. Tod’s award-winning debut novel is about far more than the pursuit of revenge. Set in the world of high-stakes state politics, Tod’s world reveals a political machine that is disturbingly recognizable, and yet far enough removed from actual headlines to act as a bonafide escape. Andrea Larson never imagined she
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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Awards. Patterson’s novel has the audacity to open with a literal “cliffhanger” scene, and thanks to the vivid sensory and dramatic flair on display, it’s a chapter that will be long etched in readers’ memories. When Army Ranger Garrett Knox left behind his military career to lead wilderness expeditions, he thought he’d escaped
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The year’s best mystery combines incredible atmosphere, a world-weary detective, a powerful politican and an amateur sleuth that everyone can easily relate to. When the body of a celebrated journalist is fished from the Edgartown Harbor, the official report rules his death accidental. But why was he alone on a senator’s yacht during a nor’easter? That’s only the first question London-based lawyer Kyra Gibson has
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The Bottom Line: This D.C. crime thriller with off-the-charts emotional intelligence is a must-read. U.S. congressional staffer Ben Walsh doesn’t usually receive texts from his wife during working hours. When he does, the first three words are a comfort: “I love you.” But what comes next fills him with unease: “I just need you to know that.” When Veronica doesn’t answer his calls, Ben is increasingly
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What are the best female detective books? This list of staff favorites, featuring female detectives from bestselling books as well as indie authors, is hard to top. We all love great detectives, no matter who they are and where they hail from. But at times, we crave the point of view and approach to casework that only a female detective can bring. The canon of
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With more than 100 novels published and a reported 450 million novels sold, Dean Koontz is one of the most popular writers of all time. His novels are characterized by fast-paced plots, richly drawn characters, and an exploration of themes such as good versus evil, the power of love, and the resilience of the human spirit. Koontz’s work often features ordinary people confronting extraordinary circumstances,
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Looking for authors like John Grisham? Check out our list of authors that John Grisham fans are likely to enjoy. American novelist John Grisham has published more than 50 books and 28 have become number one bestsellers. While Grisham has plenty of literary range, he’s known primarily for blockbuster legal thrillers such The Pelican Brief, A Time to Kill and The Chamber. Many Grisham books
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The Bottom Line: Debut adult novelist Colin Krainin elevates contemporary noir with this gritty, hard-hitting thriller that will have readers anxiously awaiting a sequel. Highly recommended. Washington D.C. private detective Bronze Goldberg specializes in infidelity cases. Just after capturing photographic evidence on a suspected philanderer named Carolyn, Bronze finds that a man she had sex with – a congressman named Billy Kopes – has washed
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