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

Avoid. Negotiation. Kill.

Book Review: Avoid. Negotiate. Kill., a Military Thriller by C.W. Lemoine

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The Bottom Line: Military Thriller fans looking for the next Brad Thor have found their savior in C.W. Lemoine’s Spectre series. The second entry in Lemoine’s Spectre series is an emotionally charged affair with eye-popping air combat scenes. Recruited into a secret organization called Project Archangel, fighter pilot Cal “Spectre” Martin is mourning the apparent loss of his girlfriend and fellow pilot, Chloe Moss. The […]

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Past is Present by Thomas Davidson

Book Review: Past is Present, a Time Travel Adventure by Thomas Davidson

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The Bottom Line: Pure joy. The most compelling time-travel adventure we’ve read since Stephen King’s 11/22/63.  If you discovered a doorway into the future, would you be satisfied with just one trip? Me neither. And that’s the juicy proposal facing Linda Mitchell, a young war widow living in Columbia, Massachussetts, 1968. After two experiences that leave her wondering whether she’s suffering from long-term effects of

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michael byars lewis

Book Review: Surly Bonds, a Military Thriller by Michael Byars Lewis

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The Bottom Line: Guaranteed to please Brad Thor fans, this terrific military thriller finds Moscow hardliners plotting to assassinate the next U.S. president. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0615663958″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51knrTLZ%2BJL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”333″]Moscow, 1995. A small group of communist hardliners, intent on overthrowing the existing Russian regime, gather to discuss operational details. Confident that their plans will work, there’s just one problem

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Do Not Assume

Book Review: Do Not Assume, a Political Thriller by Elaine Williams Crockett

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The Bottom Line: A high-stakes conspiracy thriller that starts big and gets more explosive with each succeeding chapter. A must for House of Cards fans. In Washington, an assassin’s bullet takes down a powerful senator. As the bold killer slips away into the night, investigators are left at loose ends – was the act perpetrated by a mysterious psychotic, or could it have been orchestrated

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Ice Cap and the Rift

Book Review: The Ice Cap and the Rift, an Action Thriller by Marshall Chamberlain

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The Bottom Line: The second entry in Chamberlain’s Ancestor Series is packed with even more ancient secrets, breathless adventure and international intrigue than its predecessor. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B001EJODF4″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-ix-tmEyL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”330″]What’s an 180,000 year old domed structure doing buried in the middle of an Icelandic ice cap? Who created it, and what technological treasures lie inside? After intrepid

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Wormholes by Dennis Meredith

Book Review: Wormholes, a Sci-Fi Thriller by Dennis Meredith

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The Bottom Line: A spectacularly written apocalypse thriller that seems destined for the big screen. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B00F60YLD6″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XYrBeGVlL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”333″]Are those scary sinkholes we see in the news really caused by dissolving carbonate rock? Or could they instead be a sign of something far more mysterious and terrifying? That’s the addictive premise of Dennis Meredith’s sci-fi novel,

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Mountain Place of Knowledge

Book Review: The Mountain Place of Knowledge, an Action Thriller by Marshall Chamberlain

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The Bottom Line: A winning blend of adventure, archeology, and sci-fi that is tailor-made for James Rollins fans and all thriller lovers. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1493554352″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nTl0XEjoL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”333″]Could the most powerful technology the world has ever known be held within an ancient Mayan site? That’s the question facing Calvin Stanvich, Curator of the Belize Museum of Natural History.

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Exit by Thomas Davidson

Book Review: Exit, a Paranormal Thriller by Thomas Davidson

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The Bottom Line: Black Mirror fans will be drawn in by Thomas Davidson’s engrossing, hallucinatory tale of a screenwriter who stumbles into another dimension. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B00LEYHG80″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ukP6hsGGL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”333″]Meet Tim Crowe, a quirky screenwriter with a detached retina. After nearly losing his eye and fighting with his girlfriend, Tim takes his prescription eyedrops to the Gateway Theatre

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Rise of The Iron Eagle

Book Review: Rise of The Iron Eagle, a Crime Thriller by Roy A. Teel Jr.

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The Bottom Line: Dexter fans may find their new anti-hero in Roy A. Teel Jr.’s pulpy crime thriller. Can two of LA’s most dedicated crime fighters stop the city’s most notorious serial killer? Jeff Lindsay’s classic novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, gave rise to a completely new kind of protagonist – a serial killer that hunts serial killers. Roy A. Teel Jr.’s Rise of the Iron Eagle

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