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The latest mystery and thriller book reviews, including crime fiction, legal thrillers, historical fiction, horror, fantasy, medical, romantic suspense, sci-fi and much more.

The Torus Run is the Year’s Best Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Spy Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The Torus Run begins in near-future San Francisco, where society’s elite walk with AI “Twins” –  digital doppelgängers embedded in smart glasses that serve as coaches, confidants and much more – while millions lose their jobs. Despite an age of gleaming innovation, danger lurks around every corner.  Against the advice of his […]

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The Edge of Guilt is the Year’s Best Legal Thriller

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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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Fortunate Son is the Year’s Best Political Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Political Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. In Andrew Bridgeman’s first Emma Noble book, a man named Ben Danvers, who was kidnapped two decades earlier and long presumed dead, is found alive five days before the presidential inauguration. His biological mother is about to become Vice President. Rookie FBI agent Emma Noble is assigned to deliver the news

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I, Rodion is the Year’s Best Psychological Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Psychological Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Author Alexandra Pugachevsky brilliantly leans into contemporary AI fears and transforms them into a story that is not only wildly entertaining, but also believable. I, Rodion succeeds in part because of how well Pugachevsky defined and developed the book’s primary voice. More importantly, it captures the anxiety of a world where our

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Best Horror Novel of 2025

The Rules of Kongo is the Year’s Best Horror & Supernatural Novel 

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Horror & Supernatural Novel in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The Rules of Kongo earns this year’s Best Horror and Supernatural Novel Award because, in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs, it delivers a rare fusion of hard-edged crime fiction and deeply unsettling terror. On plot alone, it stands as a fully absorbing law enforcement procedural, yet its

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Swallowing the Muskellunge, a Lyrical Historical Fantasy Thriller by Lawrence O’Brien

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The Bottom Line: A historical fantasy with teeth, told with startling elegance and lyricism. Swallowing the Muskellunge is the story of London Oxford, an ex-slave navigating a world where freedom can be threatened by violence, the whims of powerful men and forces he cannot name. London commits his family to a precarious northbound winter caravan of sleighs headed toward a “promised land” in what would

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Midnight Burning is the Year’s Best Historical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Historical Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Midnight Burning fuses authentic history with exhilarating storytelling. Its seamless mix of fact and fiction feels both inventive and uncannily real, creating a narrative that surprises even as it rings true. The result is a bold, original thriller about a slice of American history that has largely been forgotten. Levine plunges

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The Unlikely Huntress, an Explosive New Spy Thriller by Stephen Maitland-Lewis

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The Bottom Line: Atmospheric and explosive, The Unlikely Huntress builds dread in whispers and delivers its punches with startling force Stephen Maitland-Lewis returns to the harrowing world he built in Legacy of Atonement with a powerful sequel, The Unlikely Huntress. Set nearly a decade after the events of the first novel, ten years have passed since young Giselle Faber, then a recent graduate in her first job, stumbled into a

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Dragon Island, an Intelligent and Cinematic Monster Thriller by J.B. Manas

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The Bottom Line: Intelligent and cinematic, Dragon Island is a worthy addition to the canon of epic monster thrillers.  Dragon Island opens as island gardener and ex-soldier Toro Cortez notices an ominous sign – the birds have gone silent. Moments later, the sky is on fire. Something immense and impossible sweeps overhead, igniting his fellow islanders. Toro doesn’t know quite what’s happening, but he knows from combat experience that it

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Mind the Blinds, a Character-Driven Psychological Thriller by Becky Anyanwu

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The Bottom Line: A spellbinding, character-driven psychological thriller that will keep you questioning what is real and who to believe. Mind the Blinds follows Elyas Kamalu, a 17-year-old Nigerian student navigating the world with alexithymia, a condition that makes emotional interpretation feel like a foreign language. His struggle to understand both his own impulses and the intentions of others gives the story a uniquely charged internal tension.

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