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

Gorgons, a Wildly Imaginative Archeology Thriller by Ox Devere

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The Bottom Line: A wildly imaginative archeology thriller that makes Greek myth feel new and dangerous. Ox Devere’s third Ridley Samaras thriller has the kind of premise that sells itself: what if the myth of Perseus and Medusa was not myth at all? On a sun-blasted dig site above the Aegean, Gorgons wastes no time turning archaeology into danger. The breakthrough comes when Dr. Nasrin […]

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Dead Exit, a White-Knuckled Crime Thriller That Works on Every Level

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The Bottom Line: A double-shot of murder, dark humor and white-knuckled suspense that works on every level. Dead Exit will wow newcomers and satisfy series die-hards. The third entry in Michael Balter’s Marty Schott and Bo Bishop series brings the sharp-tongued business partners home to Portland, Oregon, and gives them a crisis that feels more intimate, more destabilizing and ultimately more revealing. The book opens with a 1 a.m.

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Red Horizons, a Timely and Irresistible Military Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: Timely and irresistible. Bultema’s authoritative command of military hardware, tactics and high-stakes geopolitics makes tomorrow’s war feel dangerously near. Red Horizons, the latest book in James Bultema’s Sea of Red series, begins as North Korean Captain Kim Min-jun runs for the South Korean border with a USB drive sewn into his uniform. He carries evidence of the Silent Tide Initiative, a plan

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Talisman, a Captivating Time Travel Thriller by Tom Catalano

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The Bottom Line: Time travel meets archaeological suspense in this captivating tale of greed, conscience and the terrifying cost of second chances. As Talisman opens, American archaeology student John Shaw is digging in the heat of Antigua when his tool sinks into a hidden cavity beneath the sand. Inside is a human skeleton clutching a strange gold device. Supervising professor Henri Rutherford, despite his experience,

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Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, a Breathtaking Financial Thriller

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The Bottom Line: A breathtaking financial thriller about globalization’s winners, losers and casualties, bound together by money and fate. Merry-Go-Round Broke Down may be the smartest novel you read all year. Merry-Go-Round Broke Down opens in the fall of 2008 at the Waldorf Astoria New York, where two armed men storm the hotel’s famed bar and take its occupants hostage. Among those trapped are an

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Rico Stays, a Masterclass in Antihero Crime Fiction by Ed Duncan

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The Bottom Line: A riveting, unsentimental crime thriller about the kind of man decent people should avoid, right up until they need him. A masterclass in antihero crime fiction. Rico Stays opens with the kind of ordinary Chicago afternoon that is too calm to last. Rico, a seasoned enforcer with a long criminal history, is watching baseball when his girlfriend, Jean, asks him to pick

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Miriam in the Shadows, an Electrifying World War II Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: An electrifying World War II spy thriller that is deeply atmospheric, propulsive and profoundly human. Set during World War II, Miriam in the Shadows opens as Jewish Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Miriam Maduro plunges toward Nazi-occupied northern France. Her mission is to infiltrate a heavily fortified enemy installation linked to Germany’s secret rocket program and sabotage it from within. The task is made all the more harrowing

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No Home Without You, a Post-Apocalyptic Romance Thriller by Lena Gibson

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The Bottom Line: Love in a post-apocalyptic world rarely feels this exciting or dangerous. Lena Gibson delivers the goods in this dystopian romance.  In Lena Gibson’s No Home Without You, Earth has been remade by an asteroid strike, and human survival now depends on security and the difficult question of who gets protected when there are not enough resources to go around. Vita xTerra is

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Under Cover of Chaos, a High-Stakes International Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Under Cover of Chaos turns a UN field mission into a vivid, high-stakes hunt for a serial killer in a setting readers won’t soon forget. As 32-year-old United Nations employee Stella Fairmont arrives in the Central African Republic for her first field mission, she encounters a corpse on the road from the airport. She soon learns that the victim is connected to

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A Tempest Dropping Fire, an Urban Police Thriller by Edward J. Leahy

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The Bottom Line: NYPD detectives are the target of a terrifying killer in this taut urban cop thriller. Kim Brady’s refusal to accept the easy answer makes for a thoroughly entertaining police procedural with some satisfying surprises. As Edward J. Leahy’s fifth Kim Brady series book opens, the NYPD homicide detective is finishing her first half-marathon in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Just as she begins to

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