Thriller Reviews

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

Early Grave, the Year’s Best Legal Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Legal Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. The final book in Paul Levine’s Jake Lassiter series finds the defense attorney engaging in a battle that is decidedly personal. Long before Jake’s law career, he was a linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, where he was part of “the perfect season” – an undefeated record punctuated by a Super Bowl win. But with […]

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The Birthday of Eternity, a Must-Read Historical Thriller by A.D. Price

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The Bottom Line: This atmospheric mystery is a must-read for fans of L.A. Noir and postwar historical fiction.  Set in Los Angeles one year after the end of World War II, private investigators Kit Comfort and Henry Richman have a new client: Hoyle Cooper, a.k.a. the Doctor to the Stars. Cooper wants to find his soon-to-be-ex, Lillian, who left him in March and served divorce

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The Salty Iguana, a Highly Recommended Political Thriller by Bill King

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The Bottom Line: A shockingly plausible political thriller that transcends the usual worst-case-scenario about American border security. Bill King has successfully captured the spirit of Yellowstone and transported it to South Texas. Highly recommended. As The Salty Iguana opens, four men swearing allegiance to the Revolutionary Republic of Yucatec del Norte sneak onto a historic South Texas ranch. Their goal is to kidnap the ranch’s 60-year-old owner, Santiago Stephenson. Unbeknownst to

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The One, a Can’t Miss Sci-Fi Thriller by Edward Miller and J.B. Manas

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The Bottom Line: Miller and Manas will make believers out of sci-fi fans in this can’t-miss thriller. As The One opens, Pastor Luke Remington is on a flight returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan as a Navy chaplain. On his journey home to see his wife and daughter, he’s recognized by a wounded soldier whose life he saved in an act of immense bravery. But

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Veil of Doubt

Veil of Doubt, an Engrossing Courtroom Thriller by Sharon Virts

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The Bottom Line: Veil of Doubt is a perfectly paced courtroom thriller with flourishes of forensics that will excite fans of Caleb Carr’s Angel of Darkness or the TV series Law and Order. I love murder mysteries, courtroom dramas and psychological thrillers. Virts adds all these elements together in a very engrossing tale about a woman who is charged with murdering her husband and four

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The Desert Saint, a Brilliantly Written Debut Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An emotionally charged, brilliantly-written debut crime thriller. Maria Varela’s entire identity is centered around her life as a detective. The daughter of a Las Vegas Police Department detective, she has earned a reputation as a dogged, determined cop in her own right with a spectacular track record. But the murder of her brother, Tommy, threatens to turn her entire life upside down.

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The Great Gimmelmans, an Exhilarating Crime Thriller by Lee Matthew Goldberg

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The Bottom Line: Think the Corleones are the ultimate crime family? Meet the Gimmelmans, whose exhilarating crime spree fuels this rip-roaring romp through the late 1980s.  Set in the late 80s, The Great Gimmelmans is narrated by Aaron Nicholas Gimmelman, whose parents lose everything in the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash. After the repossession of their cars, valuables and home, they’re left with an RV dubbed The Gimmelmans’

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The Return, a Visionary Metaphysical Thriller by Anna M. Elias

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The Bottom Line: An intensely imaginative, evocative and visionary work of metaphysical fiction.  As the third book in The Vessels series opens, former Pittsburgh detective Tal Davis grieves her former partner Jake and recalls what it was like to be alive before she became a spirit. “Even eternity took a minute to get used to,” she muses just before transporting to a place where she can see and hear

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Judge Not, a Must-Read Crime Thriller by Nikki Stern

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The Bottom Line: The hunters become the prey in this must-read for fans of serial killer fiction. The fourth entry in Nikki Stern’s Sam Tate Mystery Series picks up as Pat McCready, a young detective working under Sam, spots potential similarities in the murder of two law enforcement officers in separate states. Sam advises Pat to focus on cases within their jurisdiction when he’s on

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They Became Silent (Book 1) , a Wondrous Historical Thriller by LaShawn Evans

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The Bottom Line: A wondrous blend of moving coming-of-age fiction and historical thriller that will leave readers breathless.  Set in 1963, They Became Silent (Book 1) is told from the point of view of 17-year-old black football star Joseph Freeman. Known as the “next Jim Brown,” the book documents Freeman’s struggle to adapt to life after his family moves to the fictional town of Cullingland, Georgia, the first

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