The best crime thriller book reviews. “Crime thriller” is a catch-all term for thriller subgenres that feature a struggle for dominance between criminals and law enforcement, such as mafia thriller, police procedural, detective fiction, true crime, serial killer fiction and others.
Looking for the best noir novels set in LA? Welcome to the dark and gritty world of LA Noir, where the city of angels reveals its shadowy underbelly in all its sinister glory. Noir books are all about atmosphere — the sights, the sounds, the smells of a city pulsating with danger and desire. In most traditional noir books, the streets are slick with rain […]
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The Bottom Line: Prompt Execution turns everyday tech into a murder weapon and every alibi into a lie. Smart, urgent, and terrifyingly plausible. The second book in S.W. Michaels’ Aegis Series opens with a cleverly executed murder disguised as a smart-home malfunction. Victor Shen, a celebrated tech executive, is killed inside his own meticulously automated house. It’s a locked-room setup built for the connected age, complete with
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The Bottom Line: A stellar series debut that will leave fans anxiously awaiting Gabrielle Hyde’s return. Stealing Stealth opens in 1970s Toronto with a heist that transcends crime and borders on performance art. Elite thief and Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Hyde moves with balletic precision, dismantling security systems, manipulating evidence, and escaping moments before international law enforcement storms the scene. From the opening pages, it’s clear that
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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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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Extraterrestrial Noir opens on the night of a forecasted meteor shower in suburban New Jersey. The Devine family — husband Connie, wife Maggie, brother Danny and uber-intellectual 12-year-old daughter Mike – gather in the front yard in the hours before dawn to catch a glimpse of the predicted celestial fireworks. However,
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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 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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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Domestic Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. GRQ (Get Rich Quick) begins in Los Angeles, where a mysterious financial advisor (who swears he’s not an unreliable narrator) begins by telling us about his client, Marlon. It seems that Marlon is an ideas man who purchased a home he couldn’t afford. As foreclosure notices slip through the mail slot, we
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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Mystery Novel in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Karen E. Osborne’s chilling new novel opens at the headquarters of a local not-for-profit organization 45 minutes North of New York City. If you’re the kind of reader who warns characters about the dangers of dark basements, prepare to get started in the very first chapter. Aria, the organization’s 50-year-old CEO,
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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Legal Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Attorney Christopher Miraldi, drawing on more than four decades in civil law, delivers a taut, true-events–inspired story about a family seeking accountability after a teenager’s suicide. The Edge of Guilt combines procedural accuracy, emotional depth and a rare willingness to portray the legal community’s ethical failures with stark realism. Hidden motives, shifting
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