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Deadly Secrets

Deadly Secrets, an Unforgettable Political Thriller by Nancy Stancill

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The Bottom Line:  Crackling with immediacy and suspense, Deadly Secrets is an unforgettable political thriller about murder, corruption and personal freedom in the divided states of America.  Welcome to Westcarolina, the newest American state. Encompassing a conservative region of what was once western North Carolina, the new government is sponsored and backed by Kingston Avery, the state’s minister-governor. The move follows a pattern happening elsewhere. Secessionists in Texas are […]

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Mystery of the Year: A Chain of Pearls by Raemi A. Ray

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Mystery novel in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards The year’s best mystery combines incredible atmosphere, a world-weary detective, a powerful politican and an amateur sleuth that everyone can easily relate to. When the body of a celebrated journalist is fished from the Edgartown Harbor, the official report rules his death accidental. But why was he alone on a

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Psychological Thriller of the Year: Come And Get Me by Marisa Rae Dondlinger

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Psychological Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Successfully telling a story from three or more points of view requires an exceptionally deep understanding of each character’s unique fears, desires and triggers. Marisa Rae Dondlinger’s winning novel does that and more, delivering a rare multi-dimensional narrative that feels intimate and unique at every turn. When Vanessa kidnaps her ex-lover’s newborn

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DIVISIBLE MAN, an Exhilerating Superhero Origin Story by Howard Seaborne

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The Bottom Line: DIVISIBLE MAN reimagines the superhero origin story as both an exhilarating adventure and an exploration of power, relationships and community.  Howard Seaborne’s DIVISIBLE MAN series origin story begins as pilot Will Stewart wakes in a hospital room after a medical team worked diligently to repair his broken pelvis. Alone in his room after a morphine injection, he finds himself floating over the

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Crime Thriller of the Year: Chasing Money by Michael Balter

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Crime Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards Michael Balter’s debut crime thriller starts on a deliciously contrarian note. In declaring that an aspirational line in the Old Dominion song “No Such Thing as a Broken Heart” about following dreams is dead wrong, Balter’s narrator sets up the idea that greed is good, and a sucker (in this case an

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Action Thriller of the Year: Double Threat by Patrick Weill

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Action Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards How do you make a contemporary police procedural truly fresh? One way is to render your police detectives harbor police, so the jurisdiction, and all the ensuing action, spans both surf and turf. And for good measure, start your book with a gripping chapter told from the POV of a dog. The third book in

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Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year: Project Übermensch by Lonnie Busch

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best Sci-Fi Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards North Carolina resident Geoffrey Cannon has a growing reputation as a benevolent healer. He detects illnesses. Like a messiah sent from God, he cures the gravely ill with a touch of his hand. A noted metaphysical author and speaker, he is revered as a source of comfort and hope for people

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Conspiracy Thriller of the Year: Libertyland by Peter Sacks

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The Bottom Line: Conspiracy thriller of the year as voted in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards 2024 was loaded with top-shelf conspiracy thrillers, but the one that set the bar for us is perhaps the most thought-provoking. Libertyland is highly suspenseful and entertaining, but it’s also philosophical, satirical and a mirror to society all at once. Never underestimate the power of a good old-fashioned manifesto. During

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Medical Thriller of the Year: The Goldilocks Genome by Elizabeth Reed Aden

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best medical thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards The Goldilocks Genome’s winning formula is its inclusion of actual current psychiatric practices, science and pharmacology, which sets the tone for a wholly believable thriller you can’t put down. When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient demise of her

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Legal Thriller of the Year: Conspiracy Ignited by Raymond Paul Johnson

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The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best legal thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. If Conspiracy Ignited is any indication, we’d like to spend a lot more more time with Eric Ridge. This gem of a book comes to us from an author who has served as a combat pilot, as DOD Chairperson of the DOD-NASA Space Shuttle Integration Groups and as a teacher of trial

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