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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.

Vanishing Act, a Riveting Criminal Biography by Jerry Jamison

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The Bottom Line: One of the most riveting criminal biographies of the 21st century. Fans of Mindhunter and The Wolf of Wall Street will fall hard for Vanishing Act.  Vanishing Act begins with a deadly road trip from Minnesota to California. A promising engineering student, his mother and another man were heading west to take positions at a wartime defense factory. They had advertised for a fourth traveling companion to share in gas money […]

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Snake Handler's Wife

The Snake Handler’s Wife, an Edge-of-Your-Seat Domestic Thriller by Sue Hinkin

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The Bottom Line: Darkly riveting and disturbingly real, The Snake Handler’s Wife features Hinkin’s most chilling villain yet. Move this edge-of-your-seat domestic thriller to the top of your reading queue.   The Snake Handler’s Wife begins on a ranch in coastal California as cult leader Mark Wenter releases a rattlesnake into a stable. Quoting from biblical scripture, he believes a horse suffering a snakebite will trigger a divine prophecy. It’s

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Fractured, a Must-Read Domestic Thriller by Jason Melby

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The Bottom Line: A must-read domestic thriller. Fans of Linwood Barclay should move Fractured to the top of their reading queue.   Fractured begins in Florida as struggling novelist Stu Harvey and his pregnant wife Lisa brace for a hurricane. Their marriage, already strained by grief over a drowned son, is compounded by financial stress. Just as the storm knocks the power out, Lisa goes into labor. Stu’s frantic

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The Collectors, A Searing Legal Thriller by Richard A. Danzig

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The Bottom Line: From Brooklyn courtrooms to Costa Rican beaches, The Collectors is a searing legal thriller that grips from the first page to the last. The Collectors begins on a white sand beach in Costa Rica where former Navy SEAL Damian Pressler, fellow SEAL JR Reynolds, and adopted dog, Tyler, discover the body of a young surfer. An initial glance at the victim shows what appear to be stab wounds.  What follows is anything but a straightforward call to the authorities

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The Jackrabbit’s Ofrenda, a New Magical Detective Novel by Bre Garcia

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The Bottom Line: Spellbinding. The Jackrabbit’s Ofrenda cements Bre Garcia as a bold new voice in crime fiction, with Vel returning sharper, funnier and more haunted than ever. This under-the-radar gem deserves a wide audience. Bre Garcia returns to Tucson with The Jackrabbit’s Ofrenda, the follow-up to Jackrabbit and the Beast. Still grieving the brutal murder of his girlfriend Laura, Vel devotes himself to constructing an ofrenda (altar) in

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The Monuments Must Bleed, a Chilling Serial Killer Thriller by Clifton Wilcox

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The Bottom Line: A chilling, cerebral thriller where ancient ritual collides with modern crime, The Monuments Must Bleed grips from the first sacrifice to the final revelation. Highly recommended for fans of Dan Brown and James Rollins. The Monuments Must Bleed begins in Washington, D.C., where Detective Isabella “Izzy” Rodriguez encounters a crime scene unlike any she’s seen before: a young woman’s body arranged among Aztec artifacts in

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Missing in Tanzania

Missing in Tanzania, an Action-Packed Adventure Novel by James E. Merriman

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The Bottom Line: Don’t miss this action-packed, location-rich adventure set in the darkest corners of Africa. Missing in Tanzania opens as Australian rancher Ann Thompson arrives in Stone Town, Zanzibar, in search of a shadowy local fixer named Anton. It seems that Ann’s twin sister, Jane, vanished after a safari on the Serengeti.  The mission hardly comes out of sisterly love. As a result of complex

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How to Surf a Hurricane, a Gripping Eco-Thriller by Todd Medema

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The Bottom Line: A gripping eco-thriller about a visionary who risks everything to help solve the climate crisis.  How to Surf a Hurricane opens in Pittsburgh as Moro Petroff, an idealistic engineer and scion of a powerful energy dynasty, finds himself locked in a tense confrontation with his domineering uncle Dmitri. Dmitri, who serves as both the personal and ideological foil for Moro, is the CEO of Petroff Power, the

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Never Flinch, a New Holly Gibney Crime Thriller by Stephen King

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The Bottom Line: A propulsive crime thriller that intertwines obsession, morality and the fragile line between justice and revenge. In Never Flinch, Stephen King returns to the crime thriller format that has produced some of his most brilliant novels – Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, The Institute (see where the novel ranks among King’s best books). As usual, he reveals the identity of his villain early

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Welcome to Cottonmouth, an Explosive Action Thriller by Jay S. Bell

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The Bottom Line: An explosive, over-the-top, series-worthy action thriller set in a world that feels completely fresh. Jay S. Bell’s debut thriller opens in a devastated Arizona biker bar. Devlin Mahoney calmly shuffles playing cards while guns, blood spatter, cooling corpses and busted furnishings lay all around him. His CIA handler offers him two options: risk arrest and Arizona’s death penalty, or take a job

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