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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 Unexpected Hostage, the Year’s Best Political Thriller 

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Political Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. Nothing in her life has been stable since Tess’s beloved fiancé Kyle died in a tragic accident. She’s spent the past year hell-bent on outrunning her grief, jetting between high-stakes meetings and the rock clubs where she can disappear. Avoiding her pain was almost working… …until she and her colleagues are taken hostage by

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Shadowed Horizons, the Year’s Best Paranormal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Paranormal Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended..  A young psychic hunted by a psychopath. A tech genius determined to protect. A fate they can’t deny. Kiera Channon’s unique abilities make her a prime target for shadowy figures intent on dominating the supernatural world. Raised by a group of like-minded psychics, she has the unique ability to link with the two wolves

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Codename Parsifal, The Year’s Best Military Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Military Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. Inspired by historical events… Martin Roy Hill’s award-winning military thriller focuses on the quest for the The Spear of Destiny, the Roman Legionnaire’s lance that pierced Christ’s body as he hung on the cross. Legend claims whomever possesses it will become a great conqueror. But if they lose it, they will lose everything—including their

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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 Advent House, an Unforgettable Political Thriller by Tim Jorgenson

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The Bottom Line: This political thriller set in post-revolutionary Cuba features an unforgettable hero’s journey that is both emotionally resonant and highly suspenseful.   The Advent House opens as hospital volunteer Gabriella Suarez Paloma is assigned to assist a dying woman during her final days. The patient, a woman named Adriana, is considered both a person of interest and a “consort of an enemy of the state.”

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In The Lair of Legends, The Year’s Best Historical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Historical Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. The most highly decorated Native American in the history of the United States Cavalry, Jolon Winterhawk is a combat veteran of countless bloody skirmishes during the American Civil War. He’s a man of honor, struggling with sworn allegiances to two different nations-the country he’s sworn to protect, and the tribe he’s promised to defend.

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The Witchfinder’s Serpent, the Year’s Best Fantasy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. When fifteen-year-old Nate Watson moves to Windsor to live with his mysterious Aunt Celia, the last things on his mind are witches and magick and ancient vendettas. While Nate focuses on building a new life for himself and his younger brother, making new friends and adjusting to a new high school, he can’t escape the feeling

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Gothic Revival, the Year’s Best Horror Novel

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Horror Noveo, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. Gothic Revival opens as Eric Asher, celebrity novelist and oscar-nominated screenwriter, sends an out-of-the-blue invitation to a group of old grad school friends. In the letter, which acknowledges that he’s become a recluse, he offers to fly them to San Francisco, then whisk them away by private plane to a remote lake villa for

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Early Grave, the Year’s Best Legal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Legal Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. The final book in Paul Levine’s Jake Lassiter series finds the defense attorney engaging in a battle that is decidedly personal. Long before Jake’s law career, he was a linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, where he was part of “the perfect season” – an undefeated record punctuated by a Super Bowl win. But with

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