Thriller Book Reviews

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

Cops Lie!, a Crime Novel by Leonard Love Matlick

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The Bottom Line: A hate-filled rant that demonizes the law enforcement community. Scholars of activist fiction, however, may find this diatribe on police corruption a fascinating work of art. When it comes to politically charged fiction, two seminal works come to mind. The first, E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel, is a novel about two convicted spies executed by their own country, and highlights the […]

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Pineapple Crush, a Terrific Hard-Boiled Crime Thriller by Richard Cahill

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The Bottom Line: Everything hard-boiled crime should be: unsentimental, sexy, gritty and hilarious. A terrific update to a timeless genre. When a murder victim is dumped at a Honolulu hotel, head of security Artie Harper finds herself and her underling fingered for the crime. Harper, a disgraced former LAPD detective and still-single Mom, is as clever as she is spicy. When the investigating Detective Ma

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Designs on Ivy’s Locket, a Spectacular Mystery by Connie Chappell

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The Bottom Line: You’ll adore this spectacular sophomore mystery from Connie Chappell. Chappell’s debut novel introduced readers to historian Wrenn Grayson. Designs on Ivy’s Locket brings them back into the world of small-town Ohio and its unique combination of local charm and unexpected intrigue. Blending history and modern-day sleuthing, Grayson’s second case takes her back to the 40s. As you might have guessed by the

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The Plan, a High-Octane Political Thriller You Won’t Be Able to Put Down

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The Bottom Line: A high-octane political thriller about murder, politics and racially motivated nationalism. You won’t be able to put it down, and this promising first entry in a planned trilogy will have fans waiting impatiently for a follow-up. When the daughter of a U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful is murdered, suspicion falls to D.C. college professor and former prosecutor Jackson Lowery. While innocent, Lowery

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Dreaming on an Arabian Carpet, an Eye-Popping Political Thriller by Igor Martek

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Bottom Line: A riveting, eye-popping exploration of globalization, Middle Eastern politics and a woman scorned. Ricky Garcia Magasaysay may have been born in the Philippines, but he is a global citizen in the true sense of the word. When Igor Martek’s book begins, the hope of a better life has already taken Ricky to Hong Kong, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. Now, as he begins

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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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