Thriller Reviews

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

Breaking Silence, an Electrifying New Crime Thriller by Alan Brenham

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The Bottom Line: Impossible to put down, Brenham’s latest thriller piles layer-upon-layer of red herrings before revealing a shocker that few will see coming.  Book 3 in Alan Brenham’s Claire Deveraux series begins in France, as the title character receives a potentially life-changing text: “You and your sister are two of a set of quadruplets.” The anonymous sender, AMZ, sends the same text to her identical twin sister, […]

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Ranking The Best of Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp Books (Updated)

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In the late 1990s, when Vince Flynn published his first book featuring counter-terrorism hero, Mitch Rapp, few could have predicted the series would go on to spawn 24 novels (and counting) as well as movie adaptations. After Flynn died far too young at age 47, having completed 13 novels, the series continued through author Kyle Mills, who wrote nine additional Mitch Rapp books (some of

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Past Lives Denied, a Sophisticated Murder Mystery by Ellenmorris Tiegerman

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The Bottom Line: A sophisticated, entertaining murder mystery that successfully fuses bitter academic infighting with an exploration of past life regression. An impressive debut for Ellenmorris Tiegerman.  Caitlyn Morrys is a Freudian psychologist struggling to reconcile her training with flashbacks from past lives: witch burnings in papal Europe, Nazi death camps, and nightmarish wars and struggles from the distant past in the U.S., Israel and southeast

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The Founders’ Plot, a Fascinating and Believable Political Thriller by Frank Victoria

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The Bottom Line: A fascinating and believable political thriller that deftly explores the true price of immigration reform in California.  By the time newly elected California Governor Michael DiGrasso is sworn into office, his mandate from the electorate is clear: eliminate illegal immigration. DiGrasso, a personable Afghanistan War veteran, is supportive of multilingual services, as well as the legal immigration process. But when it comes to illegal immigration, he seeks nothing less than to create

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The Forever Game, a Series-Worthy Thriller by Jeffrey James Higgins

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The Bottom Line: DEA Special Agent Adam Locke is a series-worthy action hero whose debut is filled with breathtaking action and a surprisingly exquisite exploration of AI-assisted immortality.  The Forever Game opens as DEA Special Agent Adam Locke is in Haiti, closing in on John Laguerre, the leader of a massive transnational criminal organization. He figures they’ve got just one chance to “cut the head off

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The Best Stephen King Audiobooks Ranked In Order (Updated for 2024!)

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Newly updated to include King’s newest story collection, You Like it Darker! The reigning master of suspense is the author of more than 60 books and audiobooks, all of which have been international bestsellers, and many have been translated to the screen. The names are instantly recognizable:  It. Pet Cemetery. Misery. Thinner. All instant classics, and yet King’s craft seems to sweeten with age, with King

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The Burying Point, an Unmissable Crime Thriller by Derik Cavignano

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The Bottom Line: Cavignano’s second Ray Hanley thriller is a brilliant and unmissable dance with the devil. Salem witch lore has rarely been as terrifying as it is in The Burying Point. As The Burying Point opens, Boston Police Ray Hanley arrives at the scene of what seems like an almost-perfect crime. The body of a young woman has been buried in a freshly dug grave just hours before she would have been covered by

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The Committee Will Kill You Now, an Essential Medical Thriller by JL Lycette

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The Bottom Line: A must-read thriller about medical ethics and innumerable pressures facing American physicians.  At Seattle’s fictional University Hospital, there’s an unwritten rule banning sick leave for residents. These highly trained, overextended physicians are expected to show up for work unless they are dead. Accordingly, when intern Dr. Jasmine Doherty doesn’t show up for work one morning, death is indeed the reason. When work spreads

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Project Übermensch, an Unputdownable Conspiracy Thriller by Lonnie Busch

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The Bottom Line: An unputdownable conspiracy thriller that deftly explores the consequences of immortality and the nature of unchecked power without ever missing a beat.     North Carolina resident Geoffrey Cannon has a growing reputation as a benevolent healer. He detects illnesses. Like a messiah sent from God, he cures the gravely ill with a touch of his hand. A noted metaphysical author and speaker, he is

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Resurrection Walk, a Feast for Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer Fans

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The Bottom Line: A literary feast that brings together fans of Connolly’s Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer book series. The great tragedy of Michael Connelly’s otherwise high-quality Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer streaming series is that they exist in a television universe where Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller are not related (presumably due to the two series being on competing networks). That’s one reason we’ve created a list

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