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Night Plague by Alex Lettau

Night Plague, a Wickedly Original Outbreak Thriller by Alex Lettau

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The Bottom Line: A wickedly original outbreak thriller grounded in scientific realism. As Night Plague opens, former CDC epidemiologist Dr. Kris Jensen arrives in Stevens Crossing, Tennessee. The town is simmering with widespread insomnia, rage and impulsive violence.  Kris comes at the invitation of Dan Stevens, a public health director who knows the town well enough to recognize that this isn’t just stress or bad luck. Something […]

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The Healer, a Mesmerizing Psychological Thriller by Terence Hamilton

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The Bottom Line: A mesmerizing story of psychological suspense and moral reckoning. Hamilton writes with the grit of a soldier and the soul of a novelist. The Healer thrusts readers into the final phase of the Bosnian War, setting the stage for the moral and political darkness that shadows the entire novel. The book’s opening scene unfolds in the Hotel Panorama, perched high above Sarajevo.

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Prompt Execution, a Smart and Timely Terrorism Thriller by S.W. Michaels

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The Bottom Line: Prompt Execution turns everyday tech into a murder weapon and every alibi into a lie. Smart, urgent, and terrifyingly plausible.  The second book in S.W. Michaels’ Aegis Series opens with a cleverly executed murder disguised as a smart-home malfunction. Victor Shen, a celebrated tech executive, is killed inside his own meticulously automated house. It’s a locked-room setup built for the connected age, complete with

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Stealing Stealth, a Stellar Debut Spy Thriller by Brian L. Reece

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The Bottom Line: A stellar series debut that will leave fans anxiously awaiting Gabrielle Hyde’s return. Stealing Stealth opens in 1970s Toronto with a heist that transcends crime and borders on performance art. Elite thief and Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Hyde moves with balletic precision, dismantling security systems, manipulating evidence, and escaping moments before international law enforcement storms the scene. From the opening pages, it’s clear that

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The Body Brokers is the Year’s Best Crime Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Crime Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Disgraced attorney Jason Feldman’s life collapses the moment his girlfriend dies from a fentanyl overdose. Unwilling to accept the official story, he descends into a world where human life is expendable and the truth is far more devastating than anyone wants revealed. When police dismiss Emily’s death as an accident,

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Best Thriller Books of 2024

The Best Thriller Books of 2025

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What are the best thrillers of 2025? The results of the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards are in, and we’re delighted to list the best books of the year across 15 genres: Each year, BestThrillers.com celebrates the most exciting new books in the mystery and thriller landscape. This year, Avanti Centrae’s The Picasso Job takes top honors, delivering a globe-spanning adventure that blends art-world intrigue, emotional

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the breaking of time

The Breaking of Time: Chronicles of the Arvynth by J.J. Hebert

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The Bottom Line: A winning blend of the supernatural and family adventure that crackles with heart and imagination. Five stars.  The Breaking of Time opens in a quiet New England suburb with a startling confession. Daniel Ward, devoted husband, father, and unassuming accountant, admits that the life he has built is a carefully constructed fiction. He is far older than he appears, and he has spent years

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Messenger for the Dead is the Year’s Best Action Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Action Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Messenger for the Dead begins as an elite Norwegian special forces sniper, stationed atop Oslo’s famed Opera House, steadies his scope on a mysterious sailing yacht drifting in the icy waters of the Inner Oslofjord. The vessel is towing a black Zodiac—an ominous clue in an international manhunt for Aadan Mukhtaar, the

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The Picasso Job is the Book of the Year

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The Bottom Line: Voted Book of the Year in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Avanti Centrae, award-winning author of the VanOps series, returns with a standalone that fuses the moral grit of The Shawshank Redemption with the sophisticated intrigue of The Thomas Crown Affair. Like those classics, The Picasso Job is taut, visual and ready for the big screen. Dakota “No-flak Dak” Black once dreamed of joining the FBI. Instead, he’s serving time

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The Regression Strain is the Year’s Best Medical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Medical Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Kevin Hwang, a widely published professor of internal medicine, delivers a standout work of medical suspense in The Regression Strain, this year’s Best Medical Thriller. The novel opens as Dr. Peter Palma joining the medical staff of a transatlantic cruise, expecting the usual mix of minor ailments and vacation mishaps. Instead, a

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