Thriller Book Reviews

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

The Rooster Bar, a Daring New Legal Thriller by John Grisham

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The Bottom Line: Grisham takes a risk by tackling one of the biggest issues facing America: the cost of education, and the lengths people will go to in order to circumvent the system. John Grisham practically invented the legal thriller genre, and in his latest book, he takes on the very institution that makes it possible: law school. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law […]

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Fateful Decisions, a Historical Thriller by Trevor C. D’Silva

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The Bottom Line: A historical novel that documents notable early 20th century events through the eyes of a hotel heiress, including world war, celebrity kidnapping, women’s suffrage and prohibition. Trevor C. D’Silva’s Fateful Decisions is the story of Rachel Johnson, the survivor of a submarine attack who proves to be instrumental in some of the 20th centuries’ most important social and economic developments. In 1915,

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Black Ops, a new Expeditionary Force Book by Craig Alanson

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The Bottom Line: An intergalactic gem guaranteed to please both science fiction and military fiction fans. Allison’s bestselling sci-fi series began with Columbus Day, a story about a soldier on leave who gets trapped in the crossfire during an attempted alien invasion. The book checks all the classic genre boxes: earth is in danger, a unified world government is forced to form uneasy alliances, and

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Code for Murder, a Crime Thriller by Eliot Parker

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Bottom Line: A police procedural tailor-made for NFL fans. Eliot Parker’s Code for Murder manages to weave the Cleveland Browns into a story of murder, self-reliance, and family strife. As the book begins, Lieutenant Stacy Tavitt is back on the job after being left for dead in the Cuyahoga River. Her next case, the death of football player Devon Blake, takes her to the Cleveland

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The Cuban Affair, a Riveting New Crime Thriller by Nelson DeMille

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The Bottom Line: A terrific crime thriller, brilliantly read by Scott Brick, and the closest most of us will get to going to Cuba these days. Daniel Graham MacCormick—Mac for short—seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he’s living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer

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The Amendment Killer, One of the Year’s Best Legal Thrillers

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The Bottom Line: Fresh, fast and furious. The Amendment Killer is one of the year’s best legal thrillers. Fans of Scott Pratt and Lisa Scottoline may find a new favorite author in Ron Barak. Set among the hallowed chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ron Barak’s new thriller begins as Thomas T. Thomas III stalks Justice Arnold Hirschfeld’s granddaughter. Kidnapping eleven-year-old diabetic

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I am Watching You, an Engrossing Crime Thriller by Teresa Driscoll

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The Bottom Line: A swelling crescendo of a novel that starts with a spark and gets more engrossing with each succeeding chapter. Perfectly read by Elizabeth Knowelden, Teresa Driscoll’s potboiler I am Watching You begins as train commuter Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls. She thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison, and her maternal

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Enemy of the State, One of the Best Mitch Rapp Books in Years (Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills)

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The Bottom Line: Five stars for the writing. Zero stars for the marketing. Kyle Mills does his best Vince Flynn impersonation, and once again, comes up golden (see where this book ranks in our list of all-time best Vince Flynn books). Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum have more than a genre in common; the books that roll off the production line bearing their

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Grave Misunderstanding, a Hilarious Whodunit by Len Boswell

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The Bottom Line: A truly hilarious mystery in the tradition of Janet Evanovich, Thomas Davidson and Rich Leder. In Len Boswell’s Grave Misunderstanding, small town Crab Cove is the focal point of a clever satire on the murder mystery genre. For a small town, Crab Cove has seen far more than its fair share of crime. Approximately eight-seven of the town’s many unsolved murders are

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