Tyler Denning

Dead Exit, a White-Knuckled Crime Thriller That Works on Every Level

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The Bottom Line: A double-shot of murder, dark humor and white-knuckled suspense that works on every level. Dead Exit will wow newcomers and satisfy series die-hards. The third entry in Michael Balter’s Marty Schott and Bo Bishop series brings the sharp-tongued business partners home to Portland, Oregon, and gives them a crisis that feels more intimate, more destabilizing and ultimately more revealing. The book opens with a 1 a.m. […]

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Red Horizons, a Timely and Irresistible Military Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: Timely and irresistible. Bultema’s authoritative command of military hardware, tactics and high-stakes geopolitics makes tomorrow’s war feel dangerously near. Red Horizons, the latest book in James Bultema’s Sea of Red series, begins as North Korean Captain Kim Min-jun runs for the South Korean border with a USB drive sewn into his uniform. He carries evidence of the Silent Tide Initiative, a plan

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Miriam in the Shadows, an Electrifying World War II Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying World War II spy thriller that is deeply atmospheric, propulsive and profoundly human. Set during World War II, Miriam in the Shadows opens as Jewish Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Miriam Maduro plunges toward Nazi-occupied northern France. Her mission is to infiltrate a heavily fortified enemy installation linked to Germany’s secret rocket program and sabotage it from within. The task is made all the more harrowing

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Rough, Rough Country, a Neo-Western Thriller by Josh Jensen

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The Bottom Line: A neo-Western thriller as rugged as its terrain and as haunted as the men who cross it. Highly recommended for fans of Craig Johnson and Cormac McCarthy.  As Rough, Rough Country opens, a cartel-hired assassin known as The Texan is watching his mark in Las Vegas. The killing that follows is cold, controlled, and staged to mislead. Cut to Payson, Utah, where

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Blackout, an Unnerving and Explosive Terrorism Thriller by J. Luke Bennecke

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The Bottom Line: A truly unnerving and explosive terrorism thriller that deftly turns modern infrastructure into a battlefield. Every single page feels dangerously plausible. As Blackout opens, a private jet off the coast of Venezuela is serving as the command center for what appears to be a presidential assassination. Tracy Ciacchella, a billionaire power broker with a team of technicians and conspirators, is preparing a

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Red Sky, a Must-Read Medical Thriller by A.B. Acharya

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The Bottom Line: A must-read medical thriller about the thin line between innovation and exploitation. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Michael Crichton. Red Sky opens with pharmacology researcher Narin Roy writing a confession in a St. Louis police interrogation room. Author A.B. Acharya withholds the precise nature of the crime, but, tantalizingly, casts him as an unreliable narrator by revealing that the confession

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Avalon Moon, a Compelling New Murder Mystery by Michael Amos Cody

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The Bottom Line: With wolves across the river and murder in the high meadow, Avalon Moon knows exactly how to raise the hair on your neck. Move it to the top of your book queue. Gabriel Tanner, editor of a weekly newspaper in the North Carolina mountain town of Runion, expects little excitement from an early March county meeting. Instead, local Spellman Anderson IV explains his controversial plan

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Asset Nightfall, a Ferociously Intelligent Sci-fi Thriller With a Rebel Heart

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The Bottom Line: Ferociously intelligent sci-fi suspense that crackles with a rebel heart. Douglas has never written with more urgency or momentum. Asset Nightfall opens in an interrogation room where legendary hacker Kerstin Ahlers sits before Federation intelligence officers. Now reduced to “Asset Nightfall,” fitted with a neural device and ordered to undertake a mission that is as morally corrosive as it is technically difficult, the Federation regards

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Against All Odds, a Timely Legal Thriller for the ICE Era

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The Bottom Line: A timely, morally charged legal thriller for the ICE era, driven by one attorney’s refusal to look away. In Richard A. Danzig’s fourth Chance Cormac book, Against All Odds, the Brooklyn lawyer has stepped away from his practice amid a crisis of faith and embraced a timely new calling: traveling from courthouse to courthouse to represent immigrants held in detention.  The novel’s

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All Guilty Anyway, a Highly Recommended New Legal Thriller by Russell W. Johnson

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The Bottom Line: Sharp, unsettling and deeply human, All Guilty Anyway introduces a series-worthy defense attorney as it exposes the human cost of institutional injustice. All Guilty Anyway opens as North Carolina attorney Ivy Collins arrives at the Wake County courthouse to defend a client accused of child abuse. Early in her career, and the daughter of a powerful litigator, Ivy finds herself up against a criminal justice system that appears

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