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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.

Echoes of November

Echoes of November, a Political Thriller by John Vance

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JFK researcher Mark Kemble becomes tangled in a violent series of events that eventually lead him to Dallas and a confrontation with the president’s assassin. Poll results from the past two decades demonstrate that nearly two-thirds of Americans, Canadians, and Europeans believe that John Kennedy was murdered as a result of a conspiracy in November of 1963. If true, could one of the assassins still […]

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The God’s Eye View, a new Spy Thriller by Barry Eisler

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NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn’t care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA’s camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for

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Book Review: Swollen Identity, a Hilarious Mystery by Rich Leder

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The Bottom Line: Mysterious, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny. Among female sleuths, Kate McCall is near the top. Is it even possible to be too beautiful, seductive and rich? That’s what New York private detective Kate McCall thinks of her newest client, Brooke Barrington, who is suffering from a case of identity theft. With a net worth of four billion dollars and cover girl looks, it’s

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Book Review: Tell Me A Secret, a Psychological Thriller by Ann Girdharry

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The Bottom Line: A shot of adrenaline that grabs from the first sentence and exhilarates until the last breathless word. “That crazy woman’s there again, right on cue, always in the same place.” So begins Ann Girdharry’s riveting short story about an attractive stranger who appears daily to stare up at a London home. The stranger’s incessant visits have immediate consequences for Jared and Nalini,

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Glass Sword, a new Young Adult Fantasy Thriller by Victoria Aveyard

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The next installment in Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they’ve always known—and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The

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Book Review: Angela’s Eyes, a new Psychological Thriller by Alex Jones

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The Bottom Line: Psychological thriller auteur Alex Jones has delivered a thoroughly satisfying bonus for readers of his Identity Trilogy. Angela, a tech-savvy accountant and mother of two, finds hope in Pastor Soren Kristiansen’s Internet ministry. Entranced by the evangelist’s undeniable magnetism, she enters a contest to meet him at an upcoming event in Cleveland, only to be crushed when she doesn’t win. Through equal strokes of

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Book Review: He Counts Their Tears, a Psychological Thriller by Mary Ann D’Alto

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The Bottom Line: The Talented Mr. Ripley meets 50 Shades of Grey. Recommended for fans of dark psychological thrillers. Aaron Stein, MD, is a highly regarded fertility specialist at New York’s Harbor Hospital. He’s handsome, charming and financially secure. He’s also a deeply disturbed con man and misogynist who takes pleasure in the deceit and emotional destruction of his female victims. His submissive wife, Ruth,

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NYPD Red 4 by James Patterson

Book Review: NYPD Red 4, a new Crime Thriller by James Patterson

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The Bottom Line: A rock solid crime thriller from one of the best in the business. Say what you will about the fact that James Patterson has published as many as 15 books in a year, and that more than 20 co-authors in fact do much of the writing. Patterson is a business, man, and business is very good. Not surprisingly, the writing in his latest outing also very good.

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U.S. vs Welkner by Sonny Hayes

Book Review: U.S. vs. Welkner, a Conspiracy Thriller by Sonny Hayes

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The Bottom Line: A hugely enjoyable heist novel for the 21st century. Rick Welkner is having the worst month of his life. His girlfriend is pressuring him to tie the knot, he lost a sales commission that he desperately needed, and his loan shark left him on a dusty road outside Las Vegas with a promise to kill him if he didn’t pay $21,000 in

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Avarice, a Romantic Suspense Thriller by Lisa Clark O’Neill

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The Follow-Up to MALICE, Selected as a Best Read of 2015 by Kindles & Wine. Seventeen years ago, Ainsley Tidwell’s young life was shattered upon her discovery of the body of her murdered cousin, Carly. Now Carly’s sister Sabrina is missing, and Ainsley returns to Dahlonega, Georgia for the first time since the homicide that tore her family apart. Ainsley must face the ghosts of

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