Thriller Book Reviews

The best thriller book reviews, including crime, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, legal thrillers, medical, psychological thrillers, sci-fi and more.

Rough, Rough Country, a Neo-Western Thriller by Josh Jensen

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The Bottom Line: A neo-Western thriller as rugged as its terrain and as haunted as the men who cross it. Highly recommended for fans of Craig Johnson and Cormac McCarthy.  As Rough, Rough Country opens, a cartel-hired assassin known as The Texan is watching his mark in Las Vegas. The killing that follows is cold, controlled, and staged to mislead. Cut to Payson, Utah, where […]

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A Conspiracy of Data: Fail Safe – Not Safe, by S.A. Lonky

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The Bottom Line: A winning medical conspiracy thriller for the AI age, complete with murder, medical realism and the possibility that a fail-safe is anything but safe. Los Angeles critical care physician Dr. Alexander Korman is semi-famous, sardonic, self-protective and generally candid about the compromises in his life. Alex still practices medicine, but his reputation now rests as much on books, podcasts and media commentary

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Do Not Resuscitate, One of the Year’s Best Supernatural Thrillers

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The Bottom Line: One of the year’s best supernatural thrillers. Written with clinical authenticity and paranormal suspense, Do Not Resuscitate finds terror in the thin line between resuscitation and resurrection. Twenty-six-year-old medical intern Harry Lindmark is working the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, when a patient grabs his arm and demands that his chart be marked, “Do Not Resuscitate.” But

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Blackout, an Unnerving and Explosive Terrorism Thriller by J. Luke Bennecke

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The Bottom Line: A truly unnerving and explosive terrorism thriller that deftly turns modern infrastructure into a battlefield. Every single page feels dangerously plausible. As Blackout opens, a private jet off the coast of Venezuela is serving as the command center for what appears to be a presidential assassination. Tracy Ciacchella, a billionaire power broker with a team of technicians and conspirators, is preparing a

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Silver or Lead, a Darkly Comic Crime Thriller by James Cox

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The Bottom Line: A darkly comic blast of crime fiction where every old wound has a motive and every revelation feels fresh. Lucy Foley fans will adore Silver or Lead.  As Silver or Lead opens, struggling actor Ben Rooker is sitting with his best friend, Teddy Dabrowski, at their regular Pasadena bookstore café. As tension builds between Teddy and a woman seated nearby, the café

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The Boy on the Deck, a Deliciously Eerie Domestic Thriller by A.J. McCarthy

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The Bottom Line: Deliciously eerie, The Boy on the Dock is about the danger only one woman can see, and the doubt that may destroy her. Highly recommended.  As The Boy on the Dock opens, bereaved mother Julie Hampton is alone at a rented lake cottage on Vancouver Island, trying to keep herself sane through a morning routine that consists of coffee, work and kayaking.

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Kauai Spies and Bald-faced Lies, a Fast-Moving Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A fast-moving spy thriller where island secrets, family loyalties and old lies collide with explosive force. As Kauai Spies and Bald-faced Lies opens in 1996, twenty-seven-year-old Max Volkov and his twenty-four-year-old wife, Anya, are asleep above their print shop in Kharuta, Russia, when a drunken mob forces its way inside. Fueled by antisemitic hatred and resentment, the men target the Jewish-owned shop,

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Swamp Justice, a Stellar Swamp-Country Legal Thriller by Neil Turner

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The Bottom Line: A stellar swamp-country legal thriller that turns one man’s murder into a reckoning with generations of injustice As Swamp Justice opens, Chicago-area attorney Tony Valenti is shocked by the news that the father of one of his investigators has been killed in what local authorities are calling a hit-and-run. But as Valenti gradually learns, the official story is almost too tidy to

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Hard Worked Days, a Darkly Funny Alien Contact Thriller by Lawrence P. O’Brien

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The Bottom Line: A bold, darkly funny alien contact thriller where catastrophe is only the beginning and escape may be impossible. Hard Worked Days begins as Fares Khalil, a Lebanese immigrant and Brooklyn building superintendent, tries to fix a tenant’s toilet. Meanwhile across the neighborhood, Ionna Sari is working at Monica’s Bakery, juggling impatient customers, burnt cookies and the kind of ordinary exhaustion that comes

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Red Sky, a Must-Read Medical Thriller by A.B. Acharya

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The Bottom Line: A must-read medical thriller about the thin line between innovation and exploitation. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Michael Crichton. Red Sky opens with pharmacology researcher Narin Roy writing a confession in a St. Louis police interrogation room. Author A.B. Acharya withholds the precise nature of the crime, but, tantalizingly, casts him as an unreliable narrator by revealing that the confession

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