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The Fires of Rubicon, an Unforgettable Crime Novel by Robert Allen Stone

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The Bottom Line: For fans of police procedurals, The Fires of Rubicon is an unforgettable rust belt noir that lingers long after the last page. Set in 1971, The Fires of Rubicon opens in Cleveland Police Headquarters, where Lieutenant Alex Wesner and Detective Sergeant Benjamin Friedman question a troubled young man whose account of steelworker Anton Wojcik’s disappearance feels sprawling and unreliable. Anton’s job places him beside […]

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Prior Futures, a Hardboiled Sci-Fi Thriller by Dan Kopcow

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The Bottom Line: A hardboiled sci-fi thriller set in a world where evolution is for sale. As Prior Futures opens, Jeremiah Prior stands knee-deep in the turquoise waters of Antigua, staring at the wreckage of his stilted hut after another violent storm. The former New York detective is now an Authentician, a specialist in verifying rare artifacts. Prior has fled a world divided between the

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Operation: Running Brook, a Tightly-Engineered Identity Thriller by KA Biggerstaff

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The Bottom Line: A tightly-engineered identity thriller, often realistic in its detail and unexpectedly forceful in its payoff. A twenty-six-year-old woman wakes in an Austin hospital with a concussion, a fractured ankle and a troubling blank space where recent memory should be. She gives the name “Jaime” to the attending physician, even as the name “Sam” lingers in her mind with quiet insistence. She cannot

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The Consequence of Sin, a Superb New Mathieu James Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A superb finale that delivers real emotional weight while sustaining the urgency and velocity that series fans have come to expect. The final book in Matthew Fults’ award-winning trilogy featuring former U.S. Army Ranger turned investigative journalist Mathieu James sharply raises the stakes. In The Scotland Project, readers learned that James’ parents were killed in the 2005 London bombings, a trauma that set

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The Doctor’s Reckoning, a Propulsive New Medical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: The Doctor’s Reckoning pairs medical heroism with a reluctant hero whose investigative tenacity makes him a target. The Doctor’s Reckoning opens not with a crime, but with a high-stakes rescue. Cyrus Darian, a former physician who has abandoned both medicine and society, is hiking in Oregon when he encounters a critically injured stranger deep in the backcountry. Using little more than improvisation, calm judgment, and

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The Body Brokers is the Year’s Best Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Crime Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Disgraced attorney Jason Feldman’s life collapses the moment his girlfriend dies from a fentanyl overdose. Unwilling to accept the official story, he descends into a world where human life is expendable and the truth is far more devastating than anyone wants revealed. When police dismiss Emily’s death as an accident,

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Best Thriller Books of 2024

The Best Thriller Books of 2025

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What are the best thrillers of 2025? The results of the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards are in, and we’re delighted to list the best books of the year across 15 genres: Each year, BestThrillers.com celebrates the most exciting new books in the mystery and thriller landscape. This year, Avanti Centrae’s The Picasso Job takes top honors, delivering a globe-spanning adventure that blends art-world intrigue, emotional

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Messenger for the Dead is the Year’s Best Action Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Action Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Messenger for the Dead begins as an elite Norwegian special forces sniper, stationed atop Oslo’s famed Opera House, steadies his scope on a mysterious sailing yacht drifting in the icy waters of the Inner Oslofjord. The vessel is towing a black Zodiac—an ominous clue in an international manhunt for Aadan Mukhtaar, the

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The Picasso Job is the Book of the Year

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The Bottom Line: Voted Book of the Year in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Avanti Centrae, award-winning author of the VanOps series, returns with a standalone that fuses the moral grit of The Shawshank Redemption with the sophisticated intrigue of The Thomas Crown Affair. Like those classics, The Picasso Job is taut, visual and ready for the big screen. Dakota “No-flak Dak” Black once dreamed of joining the FBI. Instead, he’s serving time

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The Regression Strain is the Year’s Best Medical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Medical Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Kevin Hwang, a widely published professor of internal medicine, delivers a standout work of medical suspense in The Regression Strain, this year’s Best Medical Thriller. The novel opens as Dr. Peter Palma joining the medical staff of a transatlantic cruise, expecting the usual mix of minor ailments and vacation mishaps. Instead, a

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