Crime Thriller Books

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.

The Forgotten Girl, the BestThrillers.com Book of the Year 

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Book of the Year, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. In Auffernorde’s stunning sophomore novel, a beautiful woman wakes in a hospital bed, shackled and confused. She’s been in a coma for weeks. And can only remember her first name—Blue. Blue learns she fell from a window on the fourth floor of a hotel. Did she jump? Or was she pushed? To discover […]

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The Deadly Deal, the Year’s Best Medical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Medical Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards.  A perfectly crafted conspiracy thriller with a truly noble hero at its core, The Deadly Deal is the twisty tale we’ve been waiting for.  The Deadly Deal is the story of an ordinary man whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a vast conspiracy he can scarcely comprehend.  As the novel begins, Pharma

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Death by Saxophone, The Year’s Best Mystery

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Mystery, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended..  There’s no way to properly describe Death by Saxophone without first defining the object of its characters’ obsession: black market recordings called “bone records.” Also called “ribs,” bone records are bootlegged gramophone recordings first made from X-ray films as a way to smuggle banned music in and out of the Soviet Union.  When smooth jazz

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THE GIRLS IN THE CABIN, One of the Year’s Best Thrillers

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Haunted by the tragic death of his wife, Chris McKenna retreats to the Rocky Mountains on a backpacking trip with his two young daughters in a bid to try and reconnect with them. When an early-season snowstorm drives them to seek shelter on an isolated farm, the family must contend with the people who reside there who are not at all what they seem. They

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The Birthday of Eternity, a Must-Read Historical Thriller by A.D. Price

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The Bottom Line: This atmospheric mystery is a must-read for fans of L.A. Noir and postwar historical fiction.  Set in Los Angeles one year after the end of World War II, private investigators Kit Comfort and Henry Richman have a new client: Hoyle Cooper, a.k.a. the Doctor to the Stars. Cooper wants to find his soon-to-be-ex, Lillian, who left him in March and served divorce

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Saint Bloodbath, an Award-Winning Crime Thriller by Frederick Douglass Reynolds

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The Bottom Line: The year’s best crime thriller (Winner, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards). Highly recommended. Written by retired LA County Sheriff’s homicide sergeant Frederick Douglass Reynolds, Detectives McGuire and Cortes take on a gruesome homicide case in Long Beach, California. The pair must navigate the complex role of being the murder police in an area marked by homelessness, drug abuse, and gang violence. With little but

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Ripple Effect, an Award-Winning Conspiracy Thriller by Amy Rivers

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The Bottom Line: The year’s best conspiracy thriller (Winner, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards). Highly recommended. From the author of ALL THE BROKEN PEOPLE… Comes Book 3 in the A Legacy of Silence series. Time is running out. Tilly’s life is on the line. Psychologist Kate Medina is on a mission to dismantle the human trafficking ring that has plagued her hometown for decades. Frustrated by a lack of hard

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The Salty Iguana, a Highly Recommended Political Thriller by Bill King

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The Bottom Line: A shockingly plausible political thriller that transcends the usual worst-case-scenario about American border security. Bill King has successfully captured the spirit of Yellowstone and transported it to South Texas. Highly recommended. As The Salty Iguana opens, four men swearing allegiance to the Revolutionary Republic of Yucatec del Norte sneak onto a historic South Texas ranch. Their goal is to kidnap the ranch’s 60-year-old owner, Santiago Stephenson. Unbeknownst to

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Veil of Doubt

Veil of Doubt, an Engrossing Courtroom Thriller by Sharon Virts

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The Bottom Line: Veil of Doubt is a perfectly paced courtroom thriller with flourishes of forensics that will excite fans of Caleb Carr’s Angel of Darkness or the TV series Law and Order. I love murder mysteries, courtroom dramas and psychological thrillers. Virts adds all these elements together in a very engrossing tale about a woman who is charged with murdering her husband and four

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The Desert Saint, a Brilliantly Written Debut Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An emotionally charged, brilliantly-written debut crime thriller. Maria Varela’s entire identity is centered around her life as a detective. The daughter of a Las Vegas Police Department detective, she has earned a reputation as a dogged, determined cop in her own right with a spectacular track record. But the murder of her brother, Tommy, threatens to turn her entire life upside down.

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