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The Dark Lottery

The Dark Lottery, a Wickedly Funny Murder Mystery by Mike Stetz

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The Bottom Line: Wickedly funny and emotionally raw, The Dark Lottery is a murder mystery with a hero you’ll be quoting long after the last page. As The Dark Lottery opens, twentysomething San Diego house painter Connie Keen is staring at the ruined Ocean Beach pier. Twenty years earlier, his much older brother Kenny went over the railing after sneaking onto the closed pier to

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The 20 Best FBI Thriller Books (Updated)

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What are the best FBI Thrillers you haven’t read yet? This list of  20 staff-picked FBI Thrillers is filled with gems. FBI thrillers remain pervasive throughout the entertainment landscape. Almost since the FBI was founded during the Teddy Roosevelt presidency in 1908, novelists and filmmakers alike have been cooking up fictional episodes of the legendary G-men. Some of these classic tales are tributes, and many

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A Hall of Mirrors, a First-Rate Legal Thriller by CD Wilsher

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The Bottom Line: A first-rate, hugely entertaining legal thriller. Get ready to fall hard for Frank Connor.  Washed-up Texas lawyer Frank Connor is presented with the kind of second chance that seems too good to be true. Broke, professionally damaged and pursued by the IRS, Frank lands a lucrative position with prominent Houston plaintiff’s attorney Dickie Glatz. The job also comes with the firm’s biggest

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Book Awards List 2026: A Complete Guide for Authors and Publishers

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Last updated: August 30, 2026 Our updated 2026 list of 28 of the world’s best book awards includes the most prestigious honors for writers of mysteries, thrillers, romance novels, legal thrillers, science fiction, young adult, children’s books, general literature and other genres. We maintain this list for authors and publishers because book awards are an essential tool for building an audience. In our report based

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Project Copenhagen, a Cinematic Conspiracy Thriller by Milton Rothbard

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The Bottom Line: Fast, cinematic and potent, Project Copenhagen goes down like a shot of aquavit on a frigid Scandinavian night. In Project Copenhagen, Italian chemical engineer Giordano Paoletti arrives in Denmark to work for København Biotek, a Copenhagen biotechnology company ostensibly pursuing an agricultural breakthrough. His assignment is to refine a compound that could improve farming, but the mathematics quickly contradicts the premise. Its

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Normal for the Spider, a Must-Read Thriller by Hank Schwaeble

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The Bottom Line: A must-read blend of horror, crime and comedy that reinvents the predator-versus-predator thriller. Warning: this review may contain spoilers! Normal for the Spider opens in an unnamed American city as Sienna Shaw, a practiced thief and experienced killer who committed her first murder shortly after turning fourteen, realizes she is being followed. Seeking to lose her pursuers, Sienna slips into a bookstore

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The Woulfe Intrusion, a Sophisticated Spy Thriller by Tim Gallows

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The Bottom Line: A fast, intelligent and emotionally sophisticated spy thriller debut. Fans of Saul Herzog and Mark Greaney will devour The Woulfe Intrusion and hope for an entire series. The Woulfe Intrusion opens in Lucerne, where Noah Turner, a young American cybersecurity engineer and penetration tester, races through the snow to the railway station, disables its cameras, makes a coded farewell call to his

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Before the Devil Knows, An Irresistible Crime Thriller by R. John Dingle

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The Bottom Line: Irresistible. Before the Devil Knows pushes Dingle’s Gus Wheeler series into its darkest terrain yet, where religious terror and ritual murder collide. Before the Devil Knows opens in the Maine woods with the kind of betrayal that makes a book impossible to put down. Teenager Adam Carson is dragged from his bed, hooded, beaten and chained to a tree and surrounded by

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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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