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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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Best Horror Novel of 2024

Best Horror Novel of 2024: The Evil Men’s Book Club by T.C. Schueler

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best horror novel in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Get out the popcorn, because author T.C. Schueler has done wonders with the fear-based Y2K era by blending off-beat humor and campy horror into a novel that is hell-bent on maximizing entertainment value. Buddies Trevor Pug and Loo Spicotti form a book club, in which the only rules are selecting

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Last Call, a Brilliantly Told Crime Thriller by Travis Tougaw

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The Bottom Line: Brilliantly told, this nail-biter about the effort to free a convicted killer will make you question everything you know about our legal system. Highly recommended.  Last Call opens in a hole-in-the-wall bar in Denver, Colorado. It’s 2004, and bartender Paul Humphries is worried about a boisterous troublemaker sitting at a corner table named Dennis. After Dennis starts aggressively hitting on three much younger women,

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Tiger Season

Tiger Season, a Haunting Historical Thriller by Gojan Nikolich

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The Bottom Line: A haunting, nerve-wracking tale set in the eerie landscape of the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ). Tiger Season opens as U.S. Army veteran Eddie Profar is dying in a hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. After a day of visitors coming and going from his deathbed, a chill sends him into a vivid remembrance about the winter of 1968, when he served along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing

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EIGHT BALL, a Must-Read Assassination Thriller by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: A must-read assassination thriller that pits a lovable superhero against a sniper targeting American extremists.  The eighth book in Howard Seaborne’s DIVISIBLE MAN series returns lovable superhero Will Stewart to a crisis that threatens to rip America apart. A pilot by trade, Will doesn’t need the assistance of a stealth aircraft in order to fly, vanish and reappear. With a touch, he can help

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The Scotland Project, a Hugely Satisfying Terrorism Thriller by Matthew Fults

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The Bottom Line: A sophisticated terrorism thriller that lionizes investigative journalism while creating a series-worthy protagonist in Mathieu James. Fans of Terry Hayes and Alex Berenson will love Fults’ debut novel. The Scotland Project opens in a barn in Wales, where a group of men sit playing cards amidst a formidable cache of rocket propelled grenades, automatic weapons, fertilizer and petrol. In 24 hours, their leader

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Lethal Impulse, a Highly Recommended Crime Thriller by Steve Rush

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The Bottom Line: A small town crime thriller that hits all the right notes. Recommended for fans of Harlan Coben.  Reverend Neil Caldera’s calling takes him to Madison, Georgia, a small town graced with antebellum homes, delicious southern cuisine and a strong sense of community. But as Neil eventually discovers, the town has a dark underbelly. When the seasoned former detective is summoned to a

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