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Mystery of the Year: A Chain of Pearls by Raemi A. Ray

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Mystery novel in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards 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 […]

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DIVISIBLE MAN, an Exhilerating Superhero Origin Story by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: DIVISIBLE MAN reimagines the superhero origin story as both an exhilarating adventure and an exploration of power, relationships and community.  Howard Seaborne’s DIVISIBLE MAN series origin story begins as pilot Will Stewart wakes in a hospital room after a medical team worked diligently to repair his broken pelvis. Alone in his room after a morphine injection, he finds himself floating over the

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Crime Thriller of the Year: Chasing Money by Michael Balter

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Crime Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards Michael Balter’s debut crime thriller starts on a deliciously contrarian note. In declaring that an aspirational line in the Old Dominion song “No Such Thing as a Broken Heart” about following dreams is dead wrong, Balter’s narrator sets up the idea that greed is good, and a sucker (in this case an

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Action Thriller of the Year: Double Threat by Patrick Weill

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s 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

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Conspiracy Thriller of the Year: Libertyland by Peter Sacks

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The Bottom Line: Conspiracy thriller of the year as voted in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards 2024 was loaded with top-shelf conspiracy thrillers, but the one that set the bar for us is perhaps the most thought-provoking. Libertyland is highly suspenseful and entertaining, but it’s also philosophical, satirical and a mirror to society all at once. Never underestimate the power of a good old-fashioned manifesto. During

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Medical Thriller of the Year: The Goldilocks Genome by Elizabeth Reed Aden

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best medical thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards The Goldilocks Genome’s winning formula is its inclusion of actual current psychiatric practices, science and pharmacology, which sets the tone for a wholly believable thriller you can’t put down. When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient demise of her

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Legal Thriller of the Year: Conspiracy Ignited by Raymond Paul Johnson

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best legal thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. If Conspiracy Ignited is any indication, we’d like to spend a lot more more time with Eric Ridge. This gem of a book comes to us from an author who has served as a combat pilot, as DOD Chairperson of the DOD-NASA Space Shuttle Integration Groups and as a teacher of trial

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Paranormal Thriller of the Year: Fallen Angel, by Jolene D. Campbell

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best paranormal thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. In the year’s best paranormal thriller, author Jolene D. Campbell has created a world that that feels entirely new. Fallen Angel brings the mystical world of Japan’s Shintoism to life, blending myth, magic and romance into a riveting tale. The book itself is a fully sensory experience, filled with rich character descriptions,

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Spy Thriller of the Year: The Spy Who Hated Me by Haris Orkin

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best spy thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Since the debut of the wildly funny You Only Live Once, the first book in Haris Orkin’s James Bond satire series, Orkin has been far more prolific than the material that originally inspired him. The latest installment in Orkin’s James Flynn Escapade series, The Spy Who Hated Me, is Orkin’s fifth since the

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Best Military Thriller of 2024: Heroic Measures by Joel Shulkin, MD

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The Bottom Line: Voted 2024’s Best Military Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The best military thriller of 2024 is also the most shocking. Stephen Englehart, an Armed Forces medical examiner. dedicates his life to bringing peace to the families of fallen soldiers. Tagged as one of the best, he’s able to spot forensic clues others miss. But when the body of a US

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