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The Picasso Job is the Book of the Year

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The Bottom Line: Voted Book of the Year in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Avanti Centrae, award-winning author of the VanOps series, returns with a standalone that fuses the moral grit of The Shawshank Redemption with the sophisticated intrigue of The Thomas Crown Affair. Like those classics, The Picasso Job is taut, visual and ready for the big screen. Dakota “No-flak Dak” Black once dreamed of joining the FBI. Instead, he’s serving time […]

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The Regression Strain is the Year’s Best Medical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Medical Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Kevin Hwang, a widely published professor of internal medicine, delivers a standout work of medical suspense in The Regression Strain, this year’s Best Medical Thriller. The novel opens as Dr. Peter Palma joining the medical staff of a transatlantic cruise, expecting the usual mix of minor ailments and vacation mishaps. Instead, a

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The Amalfi Secret is the Year’s Best Detective Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Detectives & Sleuths Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The novel begins post-9/11 2001 as Canadian climbing guide Gabe Roslo arrives at the Amalfi Hotel, nestled in a cliffside hotel overlooking the Mediterranean. Gabe is eager for a long-overdue reunion with his grandparents, John and Francesca Roslo, but his hopes are quickly shattered by tragedy when his grandfather dies under

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Vatican Daughter is the Year’s Best Conspiracy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Conspiracy Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The novel begins in Vatican City, where newly elected Pope Joseph Morris slips into the papal garments. Just before stepping out to greet the adoring throngs in St. Peter’s Square, he asks one of the assisting clergy, Cardinal Roselli, to hear his confession. And much to Roselli’s surprise, the Pope discloses

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Arctic Red is the Year’s Best Military Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Military Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The fourth book in James Bultema’s Sea of Red series opens beneath the crushing ice of the North Pole in 2007, where Captain Viktor Melnikov commands the Russian icebreaker NS Rossiya as two submersibles descend to plant a titanium flag on the seabed. The triumphant act, staged under the watch of GRU Colonel Nikolai Orlov,

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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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